My Mom's Mission Statement

The hypocrisy of the CGGC kills me.

The writing of the Mission and Vision Statements and the rewriting of the radically biblical We Believe all of which are divorced from behavior destroys all possibility that the body can walk in the power of the Spirit.

Paul says that everything that does not come from faith is sin.

And, we talk a huge talk completely unmatched by anything in our puny, little walk.

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On the other hand, my mom has never heard the terms Mission and Vision Statements but her life has vision and she is on a finely honed mission.

For years, she's talked about caring for my eight-years-older-than-she father until the end of his life.

That is all she lives for.

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Yesterday she fell again.

And, her health, for the moment at least, is in rapid decline.

She's been in the ER the last two days. Bottom line: She's bed ridden and will be in the nursing home part of the nursing home, perhaps for the rest of her life.

Dad and she will be living separately.

And...she's falling short of what has been her all-consuming life mission.

ALL CONSUMING SENSE OF DESPAIR ROOTED IN A BELIEF IN A FAILURE TO ACHIEVE LIFE'S MOST CRUCIAL TASK.

My question: How do you help someone genuinely living on mission deal with failure to achieve the mission?

In this case, it's a matter of life and death on a emotional, physical and spiritual level.

HEARTBREAK.