by Chronic Joy® | May 30, 2017 | Adriana Hayes, Chronic Illness
God will use pain to develop you, but He never meant for it to define you. ~ Adriana Hayes UNENDING DECISIONS When you live with a chronic illness, you soon learn that it requires you to make a plethora of unending decisions. When you reach the “D” section in your...
by Chronic Joy® | May 26, 2017 | Cindee Snider Re, Marriage
“She held his hand like she never wanted to let him go,” my husband told me quietly one evening. It’d been a tough day. A co-worker whom my husband deeply respected was losing his battle with cancer. He and his wife had stopped by the office to pick up his...
by Chronic Joy® | May 18, 2017 | Depression, Hope, Mental Illness, Poems, Terry Powell
WHAT I’VE SEEN IN THE DARK: A Story of Depression and Faith Audio of Dr. Terry Powell’s testimony at Columbia International University on September 22, 2014. Used with permission. WHAT I’VE SEEN IN THE DARK: A Story of Depression and Faith by Dr....
by Chronic Joy® | May 12, 2017 | Mental Illness
Recently I ran across the following sentences in a status update and, in short, wanted to run over my tablet with the lawnmower: “Sin isn’t very chic to talk about these days. Words like: brokenness, psychological issues, maladjustment, and trauma are way more...
by Chronic Joy® | May 2, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Depression, Mental Illness, Terry Powell
Thoughts of Suicide I pleaded with him. To no avail, as it turned out. Ronnie * (not his real name) and I were on the patio behind my house. He was a 31-year-old divorcee with two young girls who adored him. Chronically depressed, he had tried a couple times to take...
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