Bad memories and accusing messages flooded Sal rsquo s mind Sleep eluded him as fear filled his heart and sweat covered his skin It was the night before his baptism and he couldn rsquo t stop the onslaught of dark thoughts Sal had received salvation in Jesus and knew that his sins had been forgiven but the spiritual battle continued It rsquo s then that his wife took his hand and prayed for him Moments later peace replaced the fear in Sal rsquo s heart He got up and wrote the words he would share prior to being baptized mdash [... more]

Dark thoughts often grip us as caregivers when struggling with loneliness and isolation We fearfully plead for someone to tell us what to do where to go how to cope or why this is happening Our oldest son fell and lacerated his chin when just a toddler and I held him still while he received stitches I'll never forget the look of terror in his eyes and his screams as he endured what for him was horrifying He had no way to understand what was happening or how to cope Instead of explaining infections antibiotics and wound care I gently [... more]

How we deal with fear remains one of the bigger challenges for family caregivers All too often our loneliness and isolation foster so many dark thoughts and fears that we can become paralyzed or worse In this special episode John and I delve into this topic with our usual goofy selves and in a way that helps shed some light into dark places for caregivers www hopeforthecaregiver com [... more]

Portion of HOPE FOR THE CAREGIVER Monologue The whole point of this is to speak clarity to a caregiver so that we're not floundering around wondering you know where do we go next What do we do What's going on And I go back to this whole thing with gun safety I think a lot of people rush to push their political ideology and very few people are rushing to push this in a ministry capacity and if you think about this with all of our United States' clergy combined even those from different faith we can still ask the [... more]