What is it you’re frightened of? asks my warrior side. What fills your heart with such dread? What happened to your coat of bravery you wore so confidently? I feel like a deer sometimes, I answer. I’m not always like you. I want to lie down in flower-kissed pasture,...
Oasis of Hope – A Quiet Respite for Your Day We are grateful for the inspirational guest posts that find their way to us. May you find His rest, for He has, indeed, been so good to each of us. He Gets It There’s been a dramatic shift in my understanding...
Grief Doesn’t Just Come When People Die Yesterday was a hard day – a day when pain and nausea nagged and taunted me the whole day, a day when grief in waves washed over me, reminders of loss, of restriction, of the shackles of chronic illness. Grief doesn’t...
When Encouragement Feels Like Lying I sometimes find that ‘encouragement’ feels like lying, especially when it comes to chronic illness. I want to cheer up my sick family member or struggling friend, but when I search through my “encouragement...
Someone just prayed for you. The hour was late, and I was feeling the weight of pain as I rushed to get ready to leave. Yet another medication, along with the disease itself, had caused strange side effects for me — but this time, the on-call nurse told...
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