Blessings And Prayers For Caregivers

This book provides encouragement for the realities of daily care giving challenges. Through brief Gospel-focused readings and Scripture verses, this small book offers refreshment and renewal for the exhausted caregiver. Each reading focuses on Jesus as the source of our hope and strength.

As You Give Care, God is Caring for You Caring for someone with health needs can be emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining. Sarah Forgrave has spent considerable time, both as someone struggling with serious medical issues and as the family member of a chronically ill patient, and she understands the many challenges you face in your caregiving role. Sarah wants to share what she discovered with you—peace through prayer, solace in Scripture, and unending hope from a Heavenly Father who never stops loving you. Each heartfelt prayer and devotion is intended to help you navigate the complex set of emotions that come with caregiving. Read it front to back or go directly to the devotion addressing how you feel at any given moment...when you need it most. Take comfort in the truth that God knows your every need as a caregiver and is always there for you amid your toughest trials.

As our population ages, the number of caregivers is rapidly increasing. Today, 1 in 12 Americans cares for a family member who is ill, disabled, or dying. Studies show that nearly two-thirds of caregivers rely on prayer to help them cope. This easy, practical guide to prayer addresses the needs and concerns of caregivers.

Each of the 124 prayers in this book offers a powerful source of strength and consolation, a brief quotation from the Bible or another source, several lines of reflection, and a closing petition. While praying, we remind ourselves that God stands with us in our caregiving, and He assures us that our prayers are heard and answered.

As You Give Care, God is Caring for You Caring for someone with health needs can be emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining. Sarah Forgrave has spent considerable time, both as someone struggling with serious medical issues and as the family member of a chronically ill patient, and she understands the many challenges you face in your caregiving role. Sarah wants to share what she discovered with you—peace through prayer, solace in Scripture, and unending hope from a Heavenly Father who never stops loving you. Each heartfelt prayer and devotion is intended to help you navigate the complex set of emotions that come with caregiving. Read it front to back or go directly to the devotion addressing how you feel at any given moment...when you need it most. Take comfort in the truth that God knows your every need as a caregiver and is always there for you amid your toughest trials.

Caregiving is an opportunity to give back to those who have cared for us, but caregivers can often find themselves being worn down by their important, demanding work. In Prayers for Caregivers, author Patti Normile helps caregivers voice their anxiety, fatigue, care, and faith. With a special introduction by Rev. Daniel H. Grossoehme, this revised edition will help all caregivers nourish their spirits and find the encouragement and grace to care for themselves so that they can better care for others. "Patti Normile's prayers relay hope to the caregiver that God has trust in us to do a job that He himself would do. She speaks with reverence and the honesty that comes with true relationships." Marcy Schutte, Hospice Nurse

Help For The Caregiver Here are forty daily devotionals, related Scripture passages, and Jesus-modeled prayers for the crises that are sure to occur while caregiving. Integrated into these devotionals are facts and tips for caregivers from numerous national and state caregiver resources so that they will be informational as well as inspirational. Our prayer is that, as you study these pages, you will find or renew the faith, hope, and love so necessary in the life and heart of a very special person-a caregiver. As you complete these forty days of care and prayer, you will be more spiritually prepared to realize the joys and to deal with the challenges that come from caregiving.

Taking seriously Paul s exhortation in 1 Thessalonians to pray without ceasing, Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger challenges pastors and congregations to put prayer at the center of their Christian practice and theological reflection. In this thought-provoking book Hunsinger reclaims spiritual practices from token use and unites them in a dynamic network of interdependent caring traditions. The book begins with the three foundational disciplines of spiritual reading, careful listening, and self-reflection. Hunsinger then explores prayers of petition, intercession, confession, lament, and thanksgiving. Finally she offers practical, workable suggestions for developing pastoral care groups and teaching care-giving skills at the congregational level. Clergy and laity alike will reap the benefits of this revitalizing look at the spiritual disciplines as dynamic forces in the life of the church.