How to Minister to the Critically Ill And Their Families

The get-well cards kept coming, day after day. I hung them from the walls of different hospital rooms in different facilities. I pinned them on bulletin boards during brief stays in a nursing home and then a rehab facility. There was hope and then one complication after another.

I realized my husband might not get well. Then, after 123 days in different medical facilities, he was healed in Heaven.

My advice today is based on my reflections after caring for my spouse during his final days. I included things that were helpful to both of us and things that weren’t. My hope is that they might spark an idea of how to be a blessing to others in physical or emotional pain.