DAILY TRUTH - How To Care For Your Elderly Parents As They Die
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When our fathers and mothers get old, we send them to the glue factory. We let somebody else deal with that problem. Whereas there are many cultures and societies where, when they reach an elderly stage of life, they live with their grown children until they die.
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All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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And I do believe that this includes, at some level, as best we can with the resources that God has given us,
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not just to give mere lip service to our father and mother,
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um our society has done a terrible job at honoring our father and mother
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a terrible job at honoring our father and mother when our fathers and mothers get old
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we send them to the glue factory we ship them off we let somebody else deal with that problem
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whereas there are many cultures and societies where fathers and mothers when they reach
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an elderly stage of life they they live with their grown children until they die
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and that's just the way that the society and culture functions i think of my parents
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and my grandmother that when she was older and could not care for herself they moved her into
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their home and she died physically in that house and they were there caring for her of course
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outsourcing some medical expertise towards those later moments of life when she was in physical
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pain, but they honored my dad's mother, that she died with them. She didn't die surrounded by
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strangers. She died surrounded by people that she loved, that she knew. My mother did the same for
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her mother. They weren't able to bring her into the home, but my mother was gone for several months
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collectively with her mother when she had leukemia, when she died, caring for her, loving her,
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comforting her, reminding her of God's promises, singing some of her favorite hymns, sharing with
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her some of her favorite Bible verses. I think of Jim Wilson, who recently passed away. Doug Wilson's
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father. He passed away in the home with the family. And as he got older, Doug and Nancy,
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they left their house and they moved into Jim's house. It seemed to make more sense for whatever
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reason practically. And when he died, he had his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren,
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great grandchildren about 20 25 individuals all in all singing and praying around his bed as he
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breathed his last breaths and entered into glory honoring your father and mother
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now practically one of the implications of honoring your father and mother
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is money. Money. At some level, to care for your parents as they age will likely require some
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inconvenience. It could just simply be having to move homes or this or that, but it also might
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involve money. Now, the scripture also says it is not right for the children to save up for the
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parents, but rather that the parents would save up for the children. So that's not an excuse for us
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before we reach a point of being elderly to do our best to store up an inheritance not only for
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our children, but our children's children. So as best we can, that we would not be a financial
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burden, but it will be a physical and time burden. And God has orchestrated things in his providence
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and sovereignty in such a way. Right now, my wife and I have four young children. Later in life,
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it's likely that we'll have more money than we currently do. But we won't have more energy
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than we currently do. And right now, with the stage of our children, what they need is energy.
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They need parents who can run after them. They can be with them, training them, loving them,
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encouraging them, disciplining them, teaching them, 12 hours a day. And I praise God that it's
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12 hours a day. Really 10, if you can really get a good nap in there.
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I mean, when you think about it, right, waking up at 7, going to bed at 7, getting a little nap
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from 1 to 3, whatever it may be, in that 2, 3-year-old age, if God didn't design children
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to require as much sleep as they do, the human race would have ended. I really, I think because
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of our sin and our selfishness, I really think we would have been done by now, like thousands of
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years ago. So it's the mercy of God that children require as much sleep as they do. And it's the
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mercy of God that God gives us, if we're willing, many children. Because as tiring as it sometimes
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is there's it's just there's no greater blessing apart from marriage and salvation itself
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i thought i knew the things in life that would make me happy and i've realized again and again
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and again that every single one of the things that i thought would make me happy actually made
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me miserable that i've always been wrong like always so i think i need more free time and god
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thinks I need four kids. And those things are at odds with one another. One made me anxious
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too much time. The other made me joyful. It's good for a man to go to bed tired,
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to live a full life, to spend himself for someone else. So honoring your father.
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