Comments on: Sad Christmas Thoughts About a Dismal Holiday http://agingparentsauthority.com/family/sad-christmas-thoughts-about-a-dismal-holiday/ The premier resource for anyone taking care of the elderly. Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dale Carter http://agingparentsauthority.com/family/sad-christmas-thoughts-about-a-dismal-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Dale Carter Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:47:41 +0000 http://agingparentsauthority.com/?p=864#comment-791 Please accept my sympathy for you and your family. As I read about your experience in the restaurant, I recalled being in a restaurant when my mother had a critical illness last spring. It was as if I was seeing humanity in a different light. Then and now, I am reminded of a quote from Mother Teresa. She said, "~ I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one. ~ Remembering her words give me hope and guide for living my life, even as the needs of the world are so overwhelming. Dale... http://daleblogg.blogspot.com/ ("Transition Your Parents") http://twitter.com/daccarte <abbr><em><abbr><em>Dale Carters last blog post..<a href="http://daleblogg.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-review-aging-gracefully-what-nun.html" rel="nofollow">Book review: Aging Gracefully, What the Nun Study Teaches Us</a></em></abbr></em></abbr> Please accept my sympathy for you and your family.
As I read about your experience in the restaurant, I recalled being in a restaurant when my mother had a critical illness last spring. It was as if I was seeing humanity in a different light. Then and now, I am reminded of a quote from Mother Teresa. She said, “~ I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time – just one, one, one. So you begin. I began – I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand….The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin – one, one, one. ~
Remembering her words give me hope and guide for living my life, even as the needs of the world are so overwhelming.

Dale…
http://daleblogg.blogspot.com/ (“Transition Your Parents”)
http://twitter.com/daccarte

Dale Carters last blog post..Book review: Aging Gracefully, What the Nun Study Teaches Us

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