Honor Has a Cost

There’s a woman sitting in her car outside the house she grew up in.

The engine is off. The groceries are warming in the back. Her mother can’t be left alone anymore.

She’s been parked in that driveway for 11 minutes because the second she walks through the door, she becomes the caregiver again.

And underneath the exhaustion is a thought she’s ashamed to admit:

“I want this to be over.”

Then comes the thought that does even more damage:

What kind of Christian thinks that?

In Episode 67, I’m saying the quiet part out loud.

For more than 30 years, I’ve sat across the desk from families as a licensed public accountant in Middletown, Delaware. I’ve seen what caring for aging parents can do to a family.

The squeeze between raising your kids and caring for your parents.

The guilt that never seems to balance.

The sibling with plenty of opinions but no hands in the work.