Family Squeeze

  Three Hills, AB Canada

  TOM 2N0

  FAMILY SQUEEZE

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  All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. niv®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (Phillips) are taken from The New Testament in Modern English © 1958, 1960 by J. B. Phillips. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James Version.

  Copyright © 2008 by Phil Callaway

  All illustrations © 2008 Mary Chambers and Phil Callaway, except in chapters 6 and 12, © 2008 Mary Chambers

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Callaway, Phil, 1961-

  Family squeeze : tales of hope and hilarity for a sandwiched generation / Phil

  Callaway. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  1. Family—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Intergenerational relations—Religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Parenting—Religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Aging parents—Care—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.

  BT707.7.C36 2008

  242—dc22

  2007037987

  eISBN: 978-0-307-56150-3

  v3.0