by Chronic Joy Ministry | Jul 27, 2017 | Caregivers, Chronic illness, Mental Illness, Parenting
All week, I’ve been thinking about bravery. What makes us brave? Do we do brave things every day, or is bravery reserved for the big, scary things? Certainly, bravery and courage are needed for the step-out-in-faith, outcome-not-certain, actions. Perhaps that’s...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Jul 25, 2017 | Caregivers, Chronic illness, Parenting
Recently my 17-year-old daughter, Anna, sat down at the piano before a room full of onlookers. She sat there so gracefully, so beautiful that no one would have ever guessed the huge medical challenges she was facing in her life – the chronic pain that had kept her...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Jul 12, 2017 | Chronic illness
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable…. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we’ve basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither.” Brené Brown...
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