The Situation
Did you know we live in a rapidly aging world? In fact, in the United States the fastest growing age populations are those 80 and older. As a result, we now have the “Sandwich Generation.” The Sandwich Generation are those in their 40s all the way to those in their 70s who find themselves still parenting while caring for aging parents and relatives. That was the case for my sisters and I until the Lord took our parents home. Perhaps that has been your experience or is presently your experience.
The process of aging brings challenges and losses that can bear down on people like the hot sun. The heat could be sickness, loss of faculties, a conflict with adult children, ageism or the loss of a spouse. And the heat of life will bring to light where our aging relatives place their hope. Jeremiah 17:5-6 states that we are rooted either in a trust of man or trust in God. For our aging relatives, the losses they experience become an insightful laboratory to help identify where their hope is rooted.
The reactions of our counselees, as well as our own, to this heat in life will help
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