Blog posts to inspire you to Thrive in a life with chronic illness.
Encouraging Stories for Living Well with Chronic Illness
Poetry Journaling • A Way to Remember
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...
Heart Longings at Christmas • Prayer Prompts
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...
Oasis of Hope • Finding Joy As We Respond To Suffering
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....
Unexpected Gifts as the Holidays Approach
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...
Radiate Love through Intentional Kindness
RADIATE LOVE WITH A TOUCH OF INTENTIONAL KINDNESS Is it possible to radiate love through intentional kindness? What is kindness? Kindness is “… radical … brave and daring, willing to be vulnerable … The way of selfless risk. The way of staggering...
Adrift or Anchor • Poetry Prompt
THE SOUND OF WAVES I have always loved water. Being near it, in it, on it. The sound of the waves; sometimes a whisper, sometimes a roar, would call to me. There was something fresh, something wild waiting, a new adventure. It felt like freedom. These days there...
