Who or What Holds the Power in Your Caregiving Family?

Who or What Holds the Power in Your Caregiving Family?

There is so much to do! Are you with me? In the last month, I’ve spoken with at least a dozen parents who are deep into coordinating fall transitions for their children, and they are exhausted. I am hearing from young moms whose children are back in classrooms for the...
8 Truths About Disability & Relationships

8 Truths About Disability & Relationships

The Bible provides many anchoring truths to guide us and spur us on in life. Caregiving families see those truths tested with extraordinary perspective. We also get to see — up close — how a foundation in certain truths stirs our compassion for each other, bolsters...
Ruts to Recovery

Ruts to Recovery

A lot of family caregivers are starting this near year depleted. As a special needs mother myself, I understand how wearying it is to provide 24/7 care for a medically complex and intellectually-developmentally delayed adult daughter. I’m also a pastoral counsellor...

On Loving Each Other

Loving and praying for each other is not optional and scripture doesn’t leave room for anything but whole-hearted engagement with people who are suffering. True, it’s overwhelming, scary and messy for us as individuals and as the church trying to meet a...
Gear Up for Good Gifts

Gear Up for Good Gifts

Thanksgiving, Christmas and a New Year are right around the corner. Days will be busy for most and lonely for some. Wherever we are on that spectrum, there is opportunity. I want to paint a picture of how we can give and receive life-lifting gifts this holiday...