by Chronic Joy® | Dec 2, 2020 | Audio, Chronic Illness, Grief, Hope, Vaneetha Rendall Risner
CARE FOR THE HURTING ONES WHEN CHRISTMAS IS NOT “MERRY” I recently offered to pray for my subscribers and was heartbroken at the depth of pain so many were enduring. Not only did I receive requests for those struggling with tragedies like...
by Chronic Joy® | Nov 30, 2020 | Audio, Megan Willome, Poetry Prompt
POETRY JOURNALING It’s no secret that I keep a poetry journal. It’s a way to interact with poems I’m reading and a way to save those that are special to me. Every year I start a new poetry journal, and my new year starts the first Sunday in Advent. This year...
by Chronic Joy® | Nov 30, 2020 | Audio, Bettie Gilbert, Prayer
CHRISTMAS HEART LONGINGS **CHRISTMAS** Little children light up with a glow of excitement when the word is mentioned. The word itself has become a season all its own. But why is it that the word “Christmas” stirs in our hearts a longing for gathering together...
by Chronic Joy® | Nov 18, 2020 | Oasis of Hope
Oasis of Hope • Finding Joy As We Respond to Suffering Suffering is a fact of life and it hits all of us at different times and in different ways whether through chronic illness, depression and other mental illnesses, job loss, loneliness and isolation, etc....
by Chronic Joy® | Nov 16, 2020 | Audio, Bettie Gilbert, Chronic Illness
UNEXPECTED GIFTS? AS THE HOLIDAYS APPROACH As the holidays approached, I wondered how I would meet them. Yet another specialty medication wasn’t panning out in the way we had hoped, and I found myself in a full-blown Rheumatoid Arthritis flare, longing for any...
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