Watching someone you love disappear slowly is its own kind of grief. These verses are for the long, invisible labor of this kind of caregiving.
// the word for this moment
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.”
Isaiah 49:15-16 (KJV)
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV)“Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”
Psalm 139:16 (KJV)Isaiah 49:16 says God has engraved us on the palms of His hands — a permanent, indelible mark. The person you're caring for may be losing their memories, but they have never left God's memory. Their name is still written. Their identity is held by Someone who cannot forget, even when their own mind can no longer hold it. That's something no disease can take.