Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2022.
User reviews
LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
This is a lovely pamphlet about the potential for spiritual growth and gifts in the journey with dementia. Felton's story of this journey with her husband began with learning about the deficits, and with feelings of grief, loss, and fear. As she found resources about spiritual growth through aging
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and dementia, she came to experience the joy, shared love, and peace permeating the caregiving. As she strove to constantly affirm her husband's personhood and spiritual life, she found their relationship blossomed with tender love, benefits, and pleasures, blessed by God. She concludes with the gifts each of them received along the way. This is eloquent, revelatory, and helpful. Show Less
LibraryThing member NFMeeting
Anne Felton writes eloquently about how her life changed as she and her husband, Keith, grappled with his dementia diagnosis, and how her fear and despair transformed to deep peace and joy during her journey with caregiving. She shares how the spiritual dimension of the dementia journey with Keith
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led to transformation and thanksgiving, enumerating the spiritual gifts that emerged even as escalating daily tasks threatened to overwhelm her. Her story is a testament to what is possible when the caregiver “lets go and lets God” direct their life. Show Less
Call number
CP 477