Bible Readings for Caregivers

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Augsburg Books, 1 janv. 1987 - 108 pages
Professional caregivers need to replenish their spiritual stock because they are always giving out. Here is a book that offers strength and encouragement from the Bible for lay visitors, nurses, doctors, social workers, clergy and volunteers.

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PREFACE
7
A PSALM FOR CAREGIVERS
9
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE
11
ROLE MODEL FOR CAREGIVERS
12
LOVE REMEMBERED
13
FAITH OF GENERATIONS
14
A CUP OF WATER
15
COMPASSION ON ALL
16
WHO CARES FOR CAREGIVERS?
60
WISHING FOR WINGS
61
A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
62
A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
63
WHO IS JESUS BROTHER?
64
AND ANGELS CAME
65
AS THE TWIG IS BENT
66
BEING STILL BEFORE GOD
67

BROTHERLY LOVE
17
LAUGHTER AND JOY
18
GOD OF COMPASSION AND COMFORT
19
WHOM DO WE TRUST?
20
FRAGILITY OF LIFE
21
COME TO A QUIET PLACE
22
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
23
WHEN CHAPLAINCY STANDS BY
24
SO NEAR YET SO FAR FROM HELP
25
HEALING WORDS
26
ANGEL REDEFINED
27
THE IFONLYS OF GRIEF
28
PRAYER AT DAYRREAK
29
BE NOT ANXIOUS
30
HEALING THROUGH FORGIVENESS
31
WHEN DECEIT DESTROYS
32
GOD GIVER OF LIFE
33
TEACH US WHAT TO SAY
34
PRAYER POWER
35
A WILLINGNESS TO GIVE
36
A LOVE THAT DOES NOT FAIL
37
AN ACT OF LOVE
38
FAITH COMES BY HEARING
39
WHOM DO WE FEAR?
40
GOD WILL SUSTAIN YOU
41
STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY
42
GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
43
A WORD APTLY SPOKEN
44
FOR THOSE WHO STAND AT THE BEDSIDE
45
WE ARE NOT JUDGES
46
TO LIVE A NEW LIFE
47
PRAYER CHANGES LIFE
48
A CHEERFUL HEART
49
WHEN LOVING IS DIFFICULT
50
CARING FOR GODS TEMPLE
51
JOYFUL TELLINGS
52
SONGS TO A HEAVY HEART
53
AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL
54
WHEN TWO AGREE
55
GOD KNOWS OUR HEARTS
56
LONGLIFE SATISFACTIONS
57
WHEN WORDS FAIL
58
BRING THE SUNSHINE INSIDE
59
A PROMISE FULFILLED
68
WHEN WE CANNOT PRAY
69
STRENGTH FOR THE WEARY
70
LAUGHTER ON THE OUTSIDE
71
WORDS OF HOPE
72
ARE WE SOULCARERS?
73
TWO PROMISES
74
WORDS OF HOPE
75
GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
76
OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
77
DOING GODS WILL
78
WHEN SELFPRIDE SLIPS
79
SERVANTHOOD OR SLAVERY
80
PRIVATE PRAYER
81
OF WISDOM AND WORK
82
WORK AS UNTO THE LORD
83
THE LORD WATCHES OVER YOU
84
FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
85
THE BODY OF CHRIST
86
FAITH IN THE UNSEEN
87
IS EVERYTHING COMING UNGLUED?
88
OUR BODIES A TEMPLE
89
UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE
90
FOOLS FOR CHRIST
91
A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
92
FAITHFULNESS CROWNED
93
SIGHT AFTER BLINDNESS
94
SEARCH AND KNOW
95
CHRISTLIGHT AND LIFE
96
HOW TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
97
BY THE TOUCH OF A HAND
98
SERVICE TO GOD
99
REJOICE ALWAYS
100
THE COMFORT OF YOUR PRESENCE
101
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
102
ALL THAT IS NEEDED
103
WHAT CAN WE GIVE?
104
WHEN SOMEONE ELSE CARES FOR YOU
105
THE LORD GOES BEFORE YOU
106
SUFFICIENT GRACE
107
A BENEDICTION
108
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Page 8 - I ask that you please repeat after me the beautiful prayer which we all love, the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. . . . Whereupon, the delegates repeated the following prayer . . "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
Page 10 - Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Page 85 - I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?
Page 47 - We were buried therefore with Him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Page 8 - DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Page 39 - If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Page 23 - Me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

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