Are you a caregiver for an elderly parent? Does your lifeline revolve around the life of another? Whether it be a spouse, daughter, mother, father, etc.?
When you phone her/him, and they live alone and do not answer the phone, they are busy and cannot answer, do you dread the worse has come about, that they are not answering the phone because they cannot? Elderly people fall, and spouses come home late from the office, this does not mean she/he fell, or your spouse got into a car accident.
What can we do so we do not worry? How can we be at ease if our everyday routine is disturbed?
Who can we hang on to if she is not there??
Go into the One-some of it all, take your worry and ask God to help you with it. Walk easy, take it easy, relax, don't imagine the worst. Is there someone else you know where you can exchange smiles and a "How is your day?"
Give it a few minutes, wait and then phone again. Wait 15 or more minutes, whatever it takes for your loved one to answer their phone. Give it up to God to wait with you, to be there with you as you are waiting. Drink a cup of coffee or two, add cream and sweetener, to sweeten up your disposition and comfort you, a time to be helped, a time to know it is not the end, that he/she is still there for you and always will be, in life and in death.
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