On my way to church this morning, I began to reflect on the relationship I have with my mom and what will life be like without her when she finally is released from her body.\u00a0 As the tears flowed from my eyes, I realized it was not the healthy mom I think of in my grief, but the one I care for on such an intimate basis.\u00a0 Had she not required my care over the last five years, we would not have such a strong connection.\u00a0 She is not a burden to me but a precious life that I enjoy being with.\u00a0 So when I think of life after she\u2019s gone, I know I\u2019ll miss the quality time we\u2019ve spent\u00a0 together and the many experiences we\u2019ve enjoyed with others like her.<\/p>\n
If you are called to care, don\u2019t think you\u2019re busy life is more important.\u00a0 There are untold blessings in giving your life for another.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite prayers is written by St. Francis of Assisi:<\/p>\n
\u201cMay it be, O Lord, That I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.\u00a0 Because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found; it is in pardoning that one obtains pardon.”<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On my way to church this morning, I began to reflect on the relationship I have with my mom and what will life be like without her when she finally is released from her body.\u00a0 As the tears flowed from my eyes, I realized it was not the healthy mom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,21,24],"tags":[97,188,207,233],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-publication","category-personal","category-quote","tag-caregiver-support","tag-love","tag-mothers-day-musings","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-7m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}