by Chronic Joy Ministry | Mar 30, 2018 | Caregivers, Chronic illness, Marriage, Mental Illness, Parenting, PenToPaper
Coming out of a powerful sermon from Jeremiah 29, preached by Pastor Jon Lemmond. Lord Almighty, you are our God in the midst of life — in good times and in hard times, in beauty and in disarray, in success and in failure, in life and in death. Thank you. Thank you...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Mar 26, 2018 | Mental Illness, Parenting
By the time you read this, I’ll be feeling much better. Therapy will have commenced, medications will have been adjusted, and clinging to the One who clings to the brokenhearted will have kept me affixed to a drip line of peace. I can say this with some confidence,...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Mar 20, 2018 | Chronic illness
I well remember the day I packed my bags to move to the Land of Affliction. I had lived in the Land of Ease for 35 years and, to tell you the truth, I took most things for granted. I never really appreciated the fact that I could just pick up and leave the house and...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Mar 15, 2018 | Caregivers, Chronic illness, Mental Illness, Parenting, Stories of Hope
She stood on the threshold wearing a red dress, her chopped hair topped with a big chiffon bow customary for little Russian girls. Holding the hand of the orphanage director, she looked across the room where I sat on a red couch in front of a wall of windows covered...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Mar 12, 2018 | Chronic illness, Poetry
Tears fall steadily after the trauma If you came to grips with it, at least Those around you whisper things like “drama” Each of us faces a diff’rent beast You didn’t expect it to hurt so bad Or you did and you wanted proved wrong Lost are the...
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