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A Caregiver’s Prayer

Oh Lord,

you planned our lives to include

old age ---

Geriatrics, we call it.

Let me show respect,
not tolerance
for these folks entrusted to my care.

Right now I am young,
sharp of memory,
sure of foot and strong of body.

It’s easy to think that I’ll always
be that way,
But You know better.

These people were young once, just
as I will be old someday.
Help me to look at them --- not overlook them.

Help me to really listen when they talk to me.
Help me to comfort them, touch them and treasure them.

Allow me to show respect for their years of toil,
their decades of devotion
and their lifetimes of loving.

Let me strive for appreciation,
not patronage,
for their years of living.

Blessed are the old.
They, too, have been
young and endured.

--- Author Unknown