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SINGLE WOMAN IN THE SANDWICH GENERATION

She never married, and now the care of an ailing, elderly, widowed father has fallen to her, since the other siblings live far away. Between her full-time job, ministering to his emotional needs, balancing his medications, taking him to doctors’ appointments, and making sure his house is clean and his pantry is stocked, she is one busy lady.

Then her best friend had a baby, after years of trying and many physical problems leading to a C-section and its aftermath.

The friend called the other day with a problem that had to do with the W.C., and lack of visits to the same. You get the drift.

Well, my single friend could only laugh: through the trials and tribulations of her elderly father, she had learned EVERYTHING you’d EVER want or need to know about . . . LAXATIVES!!!

She never thought she would become an expert on THAT topic. And, being single, she never thought she would be the . . . excuse the expression . . . go-to girl for post-partum advice!

But she was happy to give her friend not only the brand names of the products that worked the best, and how to use them, but even had the magic ‘’bathroom blessing’’ that worked so well with her dad:

‘’May the Force be with you!’’

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Prayer request: A friend’s friend in another city has an extremely difficult challenge as a mother: her teenage son’s best friend was killed in a car accident not long ago . . . and now his own father has committed suicide. Lord, there are no words for such a time as this, but we ask Your supernatural strength and grace to flow to and through that mother in the days and years to come. (Philippians 4:13)