Hospice

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.  Psalm 147:3

Hospice is a program that allows medical care to the terminally ill in their own home.  It allows us to care for our loved ones until they go home to meet the Lord in the comfort of their own home.  But the process can be daunting.  If anyone has had to care for their loved ones up to this point, then you know, at first, it can be a blessing knowing you can spend all your time caring for your loved one and keeping them company, allowing them to be in a familiar setting, but as things progress, it can become exhausting mentally and physically.

As you rally more help from other family members, there will be those who will willingly do all they can to help care for their loved ones, and there will be those who seem calloused, hardened and don't want to help, they just want all of this to be over.

You wonder, why they can be so cold?

Grief.

Grief affects everyone of us differently.  Some can embrace this trial of hurt, while others have to step back, erect a wall, and protect their heart from the pain of losing someone they love so dearly.

When that happens, show compassion.  Realize that they to, are dealing with this situation the best they can.  

Grief has no room for judgement, only love.

    But that's just me!

"Every man has secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad," Henry Longfellow