Book #43: Beyond Casseroles....

I was recently the winner of Michele's giveaway. One of the items I received (the other item I already told Michele was a prize for my Mom so I won't post that picture here until I give it to my Mom!) was the wonderful book Beyond Casseroles 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend by Lisa J. Copen.

I read this book Friday afternoon. We went down to the deer lease, and I sat in the camper to read while the boys walked around on the "look out" for deer. I highly recommend this book. It would be great for a personal library as well as a church library. It is a valuable resource that shares 505 ideas of ways to help someone besides just taking them a casserole dish. I wrote down a few that I wanted to remember. I think I'll reread it sometime with a pen or highlighter to mark the ones I want to do. One I wrote to remember says:

Give her a jar of encouragement. Fill a jar with slips of paper each bearing encouragement, such as verses from the Bible or positive sayings. Tell her whenever she is feeling down to pull out a word of encouragement.

Included in the 505 ideas are things you should ask and things you should never ask or say to someone who is chronically ill, like "Oh, you're much too young to have that disease."

Thank you so much to Michele for this great little book. There are so many things we can do to be an encouragement and this really is a valuable resource.
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"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." I Thessalonians 5:11