When you can't see any purpose behind your suffering, it's helpful to remember something.

Here's Holly Elif.

When the Bible says that God's ways are not our ways, we need to believe that.

He doesn't function on a human level.

He's not us.

He's God and he knows.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgmuth, along with Dana Gresh, for September 25th, 2019.

There's nothing quite like caring for a parent who's spiraling into the darkness of dementia.

If you're there right now, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

But for many, part of learning to trust God to write our stories involves resting in his sovereignty, even as they watch a mom

or a dad slowly revert to helplessness in the months or years before the end comes.

My longtime friend, Holly Eliff, has experienced this on an intensely personal level. Both her mother-in-law

and her mother slipped into that sad, confusing state.

Recently, Dana Gresh sat down with Holly to talk about it. Let's pick up the conversation where we left

off yesterday. Here's Dana.

I have some practical questions because I have a lot of friends who are struggling with this. I myself am not struggling with a parent who has Alzheimer's, but I have several friends who are. And maybe you can tell us how you answered this question from one of my dear friends. Do you say goodbye before it's too

late? Yes. How did that look in your relationships? It was so precious, both with Billy's mom

and with my mom. Billy's mom would have little good moments and really crazy moments, but in the good

moments, we were able to have really sweet conversations where I could say to her whatever I wanted

to say to her.

We laughed about some things.

One Sunday I picked her up, got all my kids ready, got them in the car, went to pick up mom,

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