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“If God is small enough to be understood, he wouldn’t be big enough to be worshipped.” -Evelyn Underhill

“Mountain tops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys” -Billy Graham

The Wiley held assumption that a person’s capacity to relate to God is lost when he or she loses cognitive function may just sell God short. … God can still relate to a person even if his or her ability to relate to God (or to other people) appears lost.

There are limits to what a caregiver can do even with God’s help, and God does not expect us to exceed them.

The reason that people warrant love is not that people are so lovable in themselves but that love is the appropriate way to treat those in God’s image.

Those who recognize caregiving as the call of a kind an loving God will hopefully respond to it, not with a grimacing fatalism but with a joyful expectation of what God is goin to accomplish in their lives.

Sin did not destroy the image of God … any more than damaging a building destroys the blueprint. … However, sin did damage our ability to reflect the image of God.

This is painful to read if you know someone with dementia. But it is helpful. And although just a few pages in, I highly recommend.