Article December 3, 2007 Issue

CARE FOR THE CAREGIVER

KATHERINE HILDRETH

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

KATHERINE HILDRETH

I'd been feeling pretty grieved about my caregiving tasks associated with a relative who needed my assistance. In fact, I was fast turning into a person I didn't like at all—heavy-spirited, joyless, constantly finding fault.

Then one day a completely unrelated event helped me get back on track. A friend invited me to go on his boat to see the whales that feed offshore from the seaside town where we lived at the time. All I expected was a welcome respite from my burdens—time off on a strictly surface level. But instead, out on the open ocean with no land in sight, my heart was suddenly filled with a glorious feeling of God's boundless creation and my own place in it.

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