Some of you know that I was a caregiver to my husband for over 25 years. The Lord has taken this burden/blessing from me, but not the lessons I learned doing it. Here is one of the thoughts I had while I was in the care giving part of my life. I pray it has meaning for you.
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The words of one of the songs we sign at church goes like this, “Finish what you started in me.” Are we always willing for God to finish what He has started when often we are so unwilling for Him to start in the first place? For some of us the refiners fire is caregiving. It is never easy. It is a very demanding job. We are always “on”. There is no rest for us. Even vacations are work for us. We have to remember the needs and the special equipment while we are in unfamiliar places and on an unfamiliar schedule in a disability unfriendly world.
We did not willing and with full knowledge choose to be caregivers, but this is what God gave us. A gift it sometimes seems in an ugly box. The gift has been given though. Ready or not we have to open it and take it out and use it.
We have been given a gift. A gift of caregiving. We are imitations of Christ. The perfect caregiver. It is our ongoing gift from God. He will not finish what he has started until we die. But he will finish and we will fully be able to enjoy this very special gift. A gift very few are given.
