the hardest part is

seeing someone you deeply love and respect,

changed by a disease that makes them who they aren’t.

the best part is

the gift of memory and the words of friends

that reminds us of who they really are.

  

the hardest part is

feeling you are not doing enough

and at the same time knowing you cannot do more.

the best part is

the gift of God’s strength to do what we are called to do.

 

the hardest part is

being afraid that you will become

used to or callous to what now produces tears.

the best part is

God’s grace is given in abundance and is enough.

  

the hardest part is

learning to let people into our lives

by being open and honest

about what we are experiencing

and at the same time preserving

the dignity and character of those we love.

the best part is

trusting a God who is loving, all-knowing and in control.

 

the hardest part is

not wanting my words to be clichés.

 the best part is

truth is truth.

 

the best part about the hardest part is

that it brings me to the feet of Jesus.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. II Cor. 9:8.