Kathy Howard - 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents

30 DAYS OF HOPE

WHEN CARING FOR AGING PARENTS

Kathy Howards 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents is a heartening companion for anyone from early to later stages of caregiving for parents. With tenderness, grace, and honesty, she comes alongside the caregiver with understanding and insight in these daily devotions. The questions for reflection are both practical and poignant.

Cynthia Ruchti, author of more than twenty
books, including As My Parents Age

I wish I could have had Kathy Howards book when I cared for two elderly women: my mother and my mother-in-law, who had Lewy body dementia. I could have benefited from this book and not felt so alone and without support. I know 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents will make a significant impact on the many caring for those with dementia or being a caregiver in any way. She offers encouragement, knowledge, inspiration, and hope. I will be referring to it often.

Kathy Collard Miller, speaker and author of many books, including
Pure-Hearted: The Blessings of Living Out Gods Glory

We are in the middle of the hardest life stage so farcaring for aging parentsand it is only by the grace and strength of God that we are able to daily rise to this most difficult honor of giving love and care to parents who can no longer care for themselves. Kathy Howard, a fellow traveler on this road of caregiving, kindly, compassionately, and honestly shares practical hope and help. 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents connects us to the God of hope. Daily, through Kathys poignant and inspiring devotionals, God breathes life and light into the heart of the caregiver.

Pam and Bill Farrel, codirectors of Love-Wise, authors of forty-five
books, including bestselling Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are
Like Spaghetti and Discovering Hope in the Psalms: A Creative
Bible Study Experience (coauthored by Pam Farrel,
Jean E. Jones, and Karla Dornacher)

As one who cared for my mother for twelve years, I truly appreciated reading this excellent book. I clearly remember how exhausting those caregiving times can be and how much we need a word of hope to help carry us through. 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents is the ideal book for such a time, with short but personal devotionals that strengthen and encourage. And, of course, each devotional points readers to the One who is Himself the ultimate Caregiver, whose infinite love and grace sustains all who turn to Him.

Kathi Macias, author of more than fifty books, including
To the Moon and Back and A Husbands Christmas Prayer

Finally! A book I can recommend for caregivers and the book I wish I had while caregiving for my mother-in-law! 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents by Kathy Howard is a unique gift that instills hope, reminds caregivers that theyre not alone, and inspires joy in the trenches of the caregiving journey. With real and relatable stories, personal reflection, prayer prompts, and Scripture that readers can cling to and be strengthened by, Kathy provides caregivers with a much-needed resource. I highly recommend 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents for caregivers, small groups that focus on caregivers, and to give as a gift to every care-giver you know and love.

Stephanie Shott, national Bible teacher, author,
and president of The MOM Initiative

Theology must connect with reality and the promises of God must find expression in the trials of life. 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents is a book that brings the resources of God to bear upon the painful realities of life. The reader will find great hope, divine strength, and Christlike compassion as they assist parents on the final stretch of their journey toward home.

Dr. Mel Blackaby, senior pastor, First Baptist Jonesboro, GA

30 DAYS OF HOPE

WHEN CARING FOR AGING PARENTS

KATHY HOWARD

An imprint of Iron Stream Media
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2018 by Kathy Howard

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Howard, Kathy, 1961- author.

Title: 30 days of hope when caring for aging parents / Kathy Howard.

Other titles: Thirty days of hope when caring for aging parents

Description: First [edition]. | Birmingham : New Hope Publishers, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018010762 | ISBN 9781625915436 (permabind)

Subjects: LCSH: CaregiversReligious life. | Aging parentsCare

Religious aspectsChristianity.

Classification: LCC BV4910.9 .H685 2018 | DDC 242/.4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010762

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living

Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from The Holy Bible, King James Version.

ISBN-13: 978-1-62591-543-6

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For my first family: my parents, Ray and Margaret, and my brother Gary (Gee).

Mom and Dad, thank you for pointing me to Jesus.

May He sustain you by His grace and fill you with His peace as you keep the faith (2 Timothy 4:7).

Gee, thank you for loving our parents so well. You are a strong example of Christs love and kindness.

Other books by Kathy Howard

Gods Truth Revealed: Biblical Foundations for the Christian Faith

Unshakeable Faith: 8 Traits for Rock-Solid Living

Before His Throne: Discovering the Wonder of Intimacy with a Holy God

Fed Up with Flat Faith: 10 Attitudes and Actions to Pump Up Your Faith