Aging Parents with Sarah Smith
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Many of us are at the stage of caring for our aging parents. If you are not, it’s probably headed your way in the not too distant years. Undoubtedly it can be a hard topic, but loving our aging parents is a really important one we’re tackling today.
Sarah Smith joins us today to share her journey of caring for her mom who was diagnosed with early onset Alzhemiers. Sarah is honest about the challenges they have faced on this road, but also encourages us to draw closer to the Lord and trust him every step of the way.
Here’s a few of the topics we cover on today’s show:
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Being realistic in expectations
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Overcoming guilt when considering healthcare facilities
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Supporting our friends who are caring for their parents
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Allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in patience and love
Don’t miss this important conversation with Sarah Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Cynthia Yannoff, and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.1 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching |
| 0:20.9 | us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk the parenting |
| 0:26.5 | road alone. As we kick it off today, I want to tell you about a really cool book you need to |
| 0:35.8 | buy. Because if you're a mother or you have a mother or you even |
| 0:39.3 | know a mother, any of those things, then you're going to love this because Leslie Means is the |
| 0:44.1 | founder of a popular website called Her View from Home. And she is put together a powerful |
| 0:49.5 | and emotional collection of essays from women of all stages in ages in our latest book called |
| 0:55.1 | So God Made a Mother. |
| 0:57.3 | So these are real life straight to the heart stories that are going to make us laugh and cry |
| 1:00.6 | and nod and all the things. |
| 1:02.8 | And so it's now available. |
| 1:04.0 | Go check it out. |
| 1:05.0 | It's called So God Made a Mother. |
| 1:06.4 | You can find it on her view from home.com. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 1:11.5 | It's Cynthia again off and I'm glad you're joining us today. |
| 1:14.5 | We are talking about a topic that is hard very often and that's caring for our aging |
| 1:20.1 | parents. |
| 1:21.3 | And this is an important topic because a lot of us are already doing that and a lot of us |
| 1:25.0 | are going to be doing that in the near future. |
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