How to Talk to Your Loved One About Hiring In-Home Care
By Lauri Scharf5 min read
When you lead with empathy, ask for input and truly listen, it can help to break through resistance.
Caregiving
Whether you or a family member is caring for a spouse, parent or loved one, find support in articles, advice, prayers, and inspirational stories for caregivers.
Run Your Race in Community
Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart…. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess…. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.—HEBREWS 10:22–25 NIV
Do I Need to Step Back from Caregiving?
By Julie Hayes4 min read
If you can no longer handle your loved one’s care, these 5 tips can help ease the transition.
No More Tears
“ ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”—REVELATION 21:4–5 NIV
Joy in Serving
Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized.—JOHN 3:23 NIV
Joy in Trials
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.—JAMES 1:2–4 NIV
Hope for the Soul
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.—HEBREWS 6:19 NIV
Sustainer and Provider
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.—PSALM 73:26 NIV
Encouragement from the Scriptures
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.—ROMANS 15:4 NIV
Guideposts Readers: Our Biggest Blessing and Inspiration
By Edward Grinnan2 min read
How your outpouring of care and support helps us make the world a better place through hope, faith and prayer.
Where God’s Will Begins
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.—ROMANS 12:2 NIV
The Best Parent
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”—ISAIAH 49:15 NIV
