What do you say that is helpful to those at the end of life? Are you an end of life caregiver and want to be more certain your interactions are helpful and relevent to those you care for? This book overs a science based method of understanding what people and their families at the end of life are experiencing. It offers an approach to caregiving that individualizes care so those at the end of life know they are not alone and that the caregiver understands what is being felt and thought. Those who work with the dying have informal understandings of the ideational worlds in which their patients...

What's it really like to serve as a minister? Is it just one long round of piety, prayer, Bible study, ladies' luncheons and holy living? Who and what does one come across if one seeks to meet people where they are? These are the real, unsanitized and unhomogenized, stories of over twenty years of ministry in meeting people where they are. In these pages you will meet: street hustlers the innocent trying to find their way in sometimes painful circumstances party girls odd people satisfied with their oddities misfits outcasts drama/suffering addicts church powerbrokers who make Dostoevsky's...