END-OF-LIFE CARE?

I was reading a book by Dr. Sandra Weinberg called ‘ #hospiceisagift ‘ and I found it very enlightening! It is divided into different cases of patients who were near the end of their lives! Sandy was a student at the King’s University, getting her Master’s of Divinity degree on 2011 when I was getting my Masters of Practical Theology degree! We were friends and her focus was getting her Doctorate, which she later got at Fuller’s Seminary. Her dissertation would be on hospice care!

My mother, at that time, whom she met, was suffering from dementia. Sandy always had an emphatic smile towards my mom; she would hug her and talk to her! On 2015, my mom was put on hospice for the last three month of her life at the direction of her doctor. She was taken good care of, and between the hospice’s team , myself and home care aids, we spent 24/7 care towards my mom!

So when I recently read Sandy’s book, I could see in all the cases all the things we had done for my mom. I did see things that I myself hadn’t done , specially in what concerned body language, talking emphatically. But I was happy in what I did do in order to bring comfort to mom for about twelve years and I did see that the hospice team’s work had been in order.

Sandy, at this point is a chaplain at a hospice agency and I think she does go overboard for her patients! I see she goes more frequently to talk to the patients than the chaplain that was part of my mom’s team care! But he was really good and when she passed he was there immediately and he took care of calling the necessary places in order to take her away and to take that last minute paperwork burden away!

So I thought I share on this topic and if you want to buy Sandra Weinberg’s book “ #hospiceisagift “ you can go to lulu.com to purchase it. It is an easy read and you can learn a lot about letting elderly loved ones have a peaceful, graceful passing from this earth to heaven, specially if they have Jesus in their hearts!

When my mom first got dementia, around 2002, she didn’t have Jesus in her heart but I found it easier to bring Him to her, and within months, she had been saved. I know it was real, as her heart grew very sweet whereas before she had been hard hearted. Initially she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s but after her born-again experience she was downgraded to dementia as she was more lucid! When hospice care came as directed by her Dr., 12 years later, she was very ready!

#HospiceIsAGift: Stories that finish well.  (WIPublish, Boise,ID, 2018).                       by Rev.Chaplain Sandra Weinberg                                                                                 Buy at www.lulu.com

KALUWASAN PAAGI KI JESUKRISTO!

Mantang nagtatalubo an kasaysayan kan mga Kristiyano, an pangaran na ‘Jesus’ midbid bilang ‘Yahweh iyo an Kaligtasan’. Gikan sa mga nosyon kan Lumang Tipan nin Kagurangnan, Paratubos, Paraligtas, Dios, an mga kahulugan na ini ibinalyo ki Jesus asin kun pano an mga Kristiyano nagtutubod sa Saiya. 1 Siyempre, sa huri, nahihiling ta ngonian si Jesus bilang Paraligtas asin Paratubos sa kasalan asin espirituwal na kadikloman, na nagpabulos nin dugo sa krus tanganing bayadan an satong mga kasalan, kun kita nagtutubod! Asin na Siya sana an dalan pasiring sa Dios! Kun siring Siya an satong Paraligtas!

Kaipuhan ta ngonyan na magkaigwa nin eksperyensya na namundag giraray tanganing magkaigwa nin relasyon sa Saiya! Sa Juan 3:3,16 sinasabi: “ ‘Si Jesus nagsimbag asin nagsabi saiya, ‘sa katotoohan, ako nagsasabi saimo, kun an saro dai mamundag giraray, dai niya mahihiling an kahadean nin Dios’….’Huli ta namotan nin Dios an kinaban na itinao Niya an Saiyang bugtong na Aki, tanganing an siisay man na magtubod sa Saiya dai mapahamak kundi magkaigwa nin buhay na daing katapusan.’ “ Siring man sa Juan 11: 25-26 ini. nagsasabi: “ Si Jesus nagsabi saiya, ‘AKO an pagkabuhay liwat asin an buhay. An minatubod sako, dawa siya magadan, siya mabubuhay. Asin an siisay man na nabubuhay asin nagtutubod sako dai nanggad magagadan. Nagtutubod ka daw kaini?’ “

Kaya kaipuhan tang magtubod asin magsolsol sa satong mga kasalan tanganing magkaigwa kita ngonyan nin relasyon sa Dios na minaabot sana sa paagi nin sarong born again na eksperyensya kaiba si Jesus na satong Paraligtas asin Kagurangnan! “An kapinunan kan buhay Kristiyano nangangaipo nin pagmidbid sa sadiring pagkamakasalan asin determinasyon na bayaan an makasadiring paagi nin pamumuhay.”2

MGA NOTA

1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright asin J.I. Packer, mga editor, Bagong Diksyonaryo nin Teolohiya, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Teolohiya Kristiyano,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.

SABIHON AN MASUNOD NA PAMIBI TANGANING MAGING PAGKAMUNDAG LIWAT:
“Jesus ako nagtutubod na ika nagadan sa krus,
pagpabulos kan Saimong dugo para sa kapatawadan kan sakong mga kasalan ;
Asin nabuhay liwat sa ikatolong aldaw!
Aram kong parakasala ako. Tabi patawadon mo ako kan sakong mga kasalan;
Maglaog ka tabi sa sakuyang puso!
Madya asin magin sakuyang Paraligtas asin Kagurangnan kan sakuyang buhay!
Salamat Jesus”