by Chronic Joy® | 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 that...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 26, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression, 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® | Mar 15, 2018 | Anxiety, Caregivers, Chronic illness, Depression, Heather MacLaren Johnson, Mental Illness, Parenting, Story
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® | Mar 12, 2018 | Chronic illness, Poems
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...
by Chronic Joy® | Mar 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Caregivers, Chronic illness, Parenting
This is part one in a two-part series entitled: Field Notes of Pain “Darling, you feel heavy because you are too full of truth. Open your mouth more. Let the truth exist somewhere other than inside your body.” Della Hicks-Wilson …..I feel “ick” today. Heavy. Maybe a...
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