The challenge becomes exhausting and draining. One soon realizes you just can’t juggle all the balls. Although wonderful things happen, they add to the weariness and frustrations that arise.
Riding the roller coaster of care giving is sometimes heading up the highest hill, the feeling that everything is under control, never knowing when the down cycle is coming or how. The twists and often sudden turns, the emotional ups and downs giving you the experience of a life time.
Intense stress from care giving sets forth a chain of events in the body leading to an sundry of health issues.
I encourage all care givers to know your limits and pursue realistic goals.
“The key is to remain open-minded. Besides learning as much as you can, seek out other caregivers to give and get support.” ~Advice from a care giving site.
I am inclined to think that care giving was designed to help us fathom the limits of our humanness, yet experience the extraordinary fraction of our hope to come, a longing to be in the presence of the Great Caregiver.
"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. Isaiah 42:16
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