#414 As a caregiver, is your soul "...bereft of hope"

This is a unique show is a show that is exist specifically for the heart of a caregiver to reach into the the troubled world of those caring for aging parents for special needs children for the mentally ill. For those who struggled with trauma PTSD wounded warriors addiction alcoholics. Those are chronic impairments.

When you have a chronic impairment.

You have a caregiver.

How do you navigate through those things and stay healthy, stay calm, or stage with have a productive life. Can you do the things and my answers unequivocably. Yes, you can export it takes help I been doing this myself for 34 years and I am the crash test dummy of caregivers often think more like the Wiley Coyote of caregivers, but we can learn from each other. We can strengthen each other and I'm of the conviction that we as caregivers really don't need a lot of instruction.

I can't tell you how to cure your love one anymore than you could tell me how to take care of mine. But what we can do is remind each other of principles that will guide us through this a little safer little, even little bit more joyful. One of those things look like and how does it apply to your situation. That's what we're here to discuss on the show today 888-589-8840 888-589-8840 here is Scripture I thought would be appropriate today. Given the, the challenges going on this world and the and they are bleak limitations. 317 24 when things look a little bit bleak elves go to the book of limitations because where is your exact circumstances as a caregiver or not readily covered necessarily Scripture okay I been taking care of a woman with a broken body 80 surgeries both her legs amputated 100 doctors from different hospitals. That's not really covered Scripture as far as the details of there's nobody I could look to say what that's what he did but every principal, every struggle, every heartache, every sorrow, every lamentation, if you will, is covered. Scripture the most often repeated commanded in Scripture is fear not, fear not, don't be afraid that's that's most often committed Scripture throughout the entire Bible.

Fear not, I think that is your freight lot of people are.

If you're caregiver for any length of time you're going to shake hands with fear.

It's going to happen. So how do you deal with this. How do you how you reorient yourself and and keep pushing forward limitations 317 through 24. My soul is bereft of peace do you you get that is a caregiver.

Your soul is bereft of peace.

Is that something you're familiar with feeling about your I forgotten what happiness is abeam about what we have the right ballpark as caregivers, so I save my endurance has perished, so is my hope from the Lord. You track it out.

This is where the caregiver lives right here by soul is bereft of peace. I forgotten what happiness is.

So I say my endurance has perished, so is my hope from the Lord. This is where caregivers live so many of us do. Then he goes on to say remember my affliction to my wanderings the warm wood in the Gulf my soul continually remembers it and is bowed down with in me, but this I call to mind up the altar here. Set the table was Jeremiah and in that a lot of times Jeremiah was referred to as the weeping prophet. He's people here of how much angst is going on in his heart that he does this, but this I call to mind and therefore I have hope the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul therefore I will hope in him, steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. This is how Jeremiah is doing this. He's expressing what's going on in his own heart with his own struggles with his own despair, and then he anchors himself in the truth of God's faithfulness and his steadfastness when things are going well in our life when we were dealing with what we got a positive cash flow and everybody's healthy and there's no crisis.

How hard do we reach out to grasp a Savior. It's mighty difficult to call out to the Savior. You don't think you need is a pastor friend of mine states often all you need is need, but we get the illusion that were okay. We got this part God and then when when crisis hits we pull out our AAA card if you will and and cry out to God, we start praying differently when you're caregiver. The crisis don't seem to in the just.

Every day is a new day of of challenges in Harlequin and struggles, and yet he says here steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.

They are new every morning great is your faithfulness and you know that some graves are faithfulness morning by morning new mercies I see this is walking by faith in the midst of heartache. This is what it looks like this is how we do it and we go back to the things we land on that and we stay really in that little tiny square you know we we we we have to anchor ourselves in this this is what's going on… Be good good Scripture to to start off the day with end into help orient us in time and space as caregivers.

You know it and that's without him comes from bridges of faith. That's work that's where that's without him has its origins.

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