Hope for the Caregiver | Dale Richardson
July 06, 2024
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"Hope for the Caregiver," with Peter Rosenberger, is a weekly broadcast strengthening fellow caregivers.
Are you now or have you ever tried to paddle the canoe upstream? It’s not a task Peter recommends, and he helps us recognize it. Then Peter talks with his long-time friend, Dale Richardson, about one way to become a healthier caregiver.
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Peter helps us with a reminder that EVERYONE needs time away from the tasks at hand, especially caregivers and he brings rest into focus as some of us have not seen it before.
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Peter shares a bit about his trip to South Carolina with us and endeavors to impress upon us the importance of seeking out wise counsel with encouragement to allow ourselves use our experience to listen to our own counsel.
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Peter has a bit of encouragement for us caregivers centering around remembering to include our own melodies in our songs of life. Peter is joined by his good and long-time encouragement-offering friend, Pastor Dan Scott to discuss a Biblical approach to dealing with loved ones for whom we care with mental illness and how the church’s response often falls short of the ideal.
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Peter’s encouragement for us this week begins with Christ’s command to His followers to strengthen the brethren. Each of us have that duty, as well as to preach to ourselves of the promises of God to His children, remembering that His Word never goes forth in vain; it ALWAYS brings forth fruit.
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A little music theory, PLUS Peter’s constant and needed reminder that God has His plans and all that we endure as caregivers is being used by Him to refine and sanctify us for His glory. He IS The Seat of Power.
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Three principles for caregivers that Peter often talks about are applicable to our nation in this broadcast.
*Boundaries *Identity and *Sustainability.
If these work well for caregivers they will, and have in the past, be good for our nation.
Peter brings news of surpassing 250 K downloads of the program while encouraging listeners not to try to do this alone. He also asks some hard questions of us, “What can we become through this?” Are we serving our loved ones well? And what is the secret to triumph?
Peter offers help for caregivers when we must deal with people who are out of control, bearing in mind that “Hysterical equals Historical”.
Then Cindy Brinker Simmons, author of Restored: Reconnecting Life's Broken Pieces, joins Peter to offer hope to those who might be living in a fragile place after loss, pain, or grief.
Peter asks some pretty probing questions of us, well worth pondering for our hearts. He also has conversation with Senior Advocate, Kelly O’Connor who brings both knowledge and experience to the table.
“We cannot control the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Pete uses a Dolly Parton quote, to help us to be more flexible as caregivers.
Peter is host to his long-time friend, Messianic Rabi Eric Walker discussing how to live in the crucible of care-giving with clarity, asking the right questions of God and receiving His answers.
Carole joins Peter to discuss her remarkable experiences caring for her Pastor/husband and her book, which documents their live-changing diagnosis in greater detail, “Are you Ready to Find Joy When Life Gets Messy?”
Winston S. Churchill once said, "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
Peter takes us back to Gospel basics; He owes us nothing because He has given us everything.
Peter talks with Christian music artist, song writer and author, Bryan Duncan about his care-giving journey as well as some very frank and candid conversation around his personal spiritual struggles as a follower of Christ.
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We’re just renting! Regardless of our situation, feast or famine, we are stewards, not owners in this world. Peter also counsels us in advance thinking & planning as caregivers.
“Peter Rosenberger, America’s Caregiver!” That’s a proclamation Peter is going to begin using, LOL, although he says, “not really”.
Question: Can we look at our care-giving situation and see the mercies of God in all that we do, all that we are exposed to, and trust the sovereign God for all we need?
Peter offers some terrific reminders this week – God’s got this! And as caregivers, we are tethered but we are not constrained. Producer Pat joins the program sharing her journey as a caregiver to her husband of 46 years.
Peter and Gracie are still struggling since her December surgery so we revisit one of the best of Hope for the Caregiver programs with Peter's guest, Mark Negley, author of Survive – Alive – Thrive: Navigating the Journey from Loss to Hope to Happiness.
Mark Negley (newcanaansociety.org)
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For the Caregiver, contentment might be one of the most important things for us to strive for along with perusing healthiness. Peter takes us through some steps that can be very helpful in the process.
