It does not matter if you are a family/friend caregiver or an employed caregiver – you sacrifice your time and use your talents to care for the needs of someone else. You are there for them on the gloomiest of days.

Regardless of whether it was your choice to become a caregiver, or it fell into your lap because there was no other alternative, you are an instrumental part of someone’s life. You are their sunshine on a cloudy day. You are the mood-changing song that brings energy to a quiet room that makes someone want to stand up and start dancing.

You are their advocate, voice of reason, and the rainbow after a torrential downpour. Augustine said, “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Matthew 5:16 reminds us, “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

When you help others, you are also serving Christ. You can care and help someone else as an act of worship to God. Whether you are changing someone’s bandage from a bedsore, working on exercises from their physical therapist, or praying over them – it can all be an act of worship to God.