It’s Both a Blessing and a Burden
Balancing both becomes our caregiving challenge.
This week we asked,
Is caregiving a blessing or a burden or both?
What’s your bravest moment?
Caregiving is both; we experience blessings and burdens. It’s hard work, it’s never-ending tasks, it’s constantly choosing a priority, it’s coping with our difficult emotions. It also blesses us with perspective and purpose.
I think our challenge during caregiving can be balancing the blessings and the burdens so that we compromise rather than sacrifice. When we sacrifice too much, we can’t see the blessings because we only feel the burden.
Our bravest moments happen at the time of our family member’s diagnosis, during their final moments and all the moments in between. We get up every day to face the unknown without knowing if we’ll have what we need to manage the challenges.
Today, you will have brave moments just as you will tomorrow.
Be sure to get The Caring Questions we pose on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays so you can tell us about your experiences. We share thoughts about your answers in our Sunday newsletter.