Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring

by Andi Ashworth

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Caregiving is a creative, joy-filled art--a service vital to our families and communities. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and practical helps, Andi Ashworth addresses the artistry, practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community. Here, she offers a grand invitation to serve others with the beauth, imagination, and love to which God calls us.

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In Real Love for Real Life, caregivers of all kinds can find the help and hope they need to fulfill their calling. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and thoughtful quotations, Ashworth addresses the practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community-leading readers to a greater understanding of the value and the validity of their call to be caregivers.

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