Capitalizing on the present while admitting and grieving the loss of the past is the challenge for everyone loving a person with a debilitating disease.

Look closely and you’ll find encouragement for caregivers in this well-known account of Jesus’ conversation with a Samaritan woman.

As a daughter anticipates Yom Kippur, she thinks about how she has served her mother, wondering about the year to come.

No one is shuffling Evelyn into a corner to die. But her compassionate doctors are seeking the best quality of life we can have now.

It’s good for us to read this story again, to wonder at its depth as well as its simplicity, and to think what it means for ourselves as well as those in our care.

Some caregivers are isolated and alone. Some Alzheimer’s patients are trapped at home. But at this stage of our journey, our lives are as full as we can bear, and I’m very grateful.

Maybe I’ve never prayed so long because I never faced a decision as large as the one Jesus was anticipating.

The blessings showered on us are all welcome—even though so many are shadowed by the unpleasant difficulties of this season.

It’s so easy to become accustomed to the ordinary. And when God intervenes, we hardly know how to respond.

I was getting a little bored with the book till I came to the last chapter and realized Tucci had touched something far more profound than what we’ll fix for dinner.

Scripture tells us he “in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Frankly, I find that difficult to grasp.

The mother I had as a child no longer resembled the person she had become. But I loved her all the same, clear through the difficult days till the very end.

Sometimes memories from 20 years ago make us sad. Sometimes they do something more. That’s what happened for us this week.

Here we see the humility, the deity, and the example of Jesus. Ultimately, it’s a story to bring us hope.

The pictures were not a lie. They just didn’t include some recurring moments we chose not to post on Facebook.

Which part of Nehemiah’s pattern would you do well to imitate first?

Will we be as faithful as they were now that we’re living with trial every day?

Memories from just one week prove the point: I have so many reasons to be thankful.

In Jonah’s words of distress from the pit of his suffering, we can find help for our own prayers today.

What a blessing to get advice from friends who care, especially when it yields such positive results!