Oh, this show is so close to my heart today, so tender for a lot of us talking about the angst of aging parents.

When you start to reverse roles and you become the parent now, I tell you a lot of you wanted to talk about this.

I'm going to try not to cry today because I know a little about this myself.

This month on the Jesus Over Everything show, we're talking about things

that affect our lives, but we don't often talk about, and we need to. Once again, this is a big one.

I'm your host, Lisa Whittle, and if you're new here, welcome. If you've been around, you know how

this goes. Jesus, honesty, and straight talk. Let's go.

Next month, I'm going to dive even more into this in a different way.

So come back to hear more about what that is. But my goodness, friends, this show is something I'm going to say you just don't really

get until you get it. My parents were always bigger than life to me. And I think somewhere in our

minds when we grow up with healthy, active parents who are sort of always our caretakers in

every sense of the word, we believe they will always be in that

role, or at least we can't see the day that they are no longer in that role. It's just too far down

the road. I thought, though, as I was preparing for this show about people who sort of always had

to be the parent or caretaker in some way growing up because

maybe their parent was an alcoholic or absent or disabled or whatever the case was.

They know in a very intimate way about what some of us with parents who are aging and in those spaces, and we've reversed roles

in many ways, are just now experiencing. And so if that's you, to you, I say, I see you, I acknowledge

you. I'm sorry that you had to be in that space of caretaker, of almost parent before your time.

You know, my mom listens to this show often.

Hi, Mom, if you're listening.

She is such an incredible cheerleader to me.

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