by Chronic Joy® | Feb 17, 2020 | Mental Illness, Young Adults
A Scorched-Earth Wasteland As I sit in my comfortable, over-stuffed, pink-patterned rocker chair, I find myself at a loss for words. As you may guess from my abundant use of adjectives in the previous sentence, this “loss of words” does not pertain to my...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 16, 2020 | Chronic illness, Fibromyalgia
Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia I’m convinced the princess didn’t feel the pea under that stack of mattresses because she had some princess “spidey” skills or keen princess detection abilities, but because she had Fibromyalgia. She wouldn’t have been...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 13, 2020 | Pamela Piquette, Prayer
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning;my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. I am the utter...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 11, 2020 | Cindee Snider Re, Marriage
Love that Gives, Multiplies Maintaining a healthy marriage is a sacrificial pursuit and a life-long journey. Fulfillment isn’t something that just happens. It requires honesty and intentionality, commitment and compromise, patience and attention,...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 4, 2020 | Chronic illness
Renewing My Faith Every year the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress is my way to renew my faith. As I travelled there in March of 2018, I felt concerned that my family and I tended to focus on the bad things happening each day. While I had established a...
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