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You Cannot Take Me

While we may lose a lot at the hands of a chronic illness, there are still things it cannot take from us. We can even thrive in new ways.

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Chronic Illness Cannot Take Me - a poem by Laurie Glass

The Intercessory Ministry of Prayer Shawls

Part of creating hand-made shawls is the spiritual discipline of intercessory prayer for those who will receive them. Both the shawl maker and the recipient are invited to practice the presence of God.

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Creating prayer shawls is a spiritual discipline of intercessory prayer.

Wounds into Words

Writing about pain is both necessary and difficult. Pain is eased by being moved and writing a poem about pain gets it moving. In Andrea Potos’ poem, we don’t know what her wounds are – only that the cello is speaking to those hurting places, encouraging them to become something beautiful.

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"What music helps heal your wounds? It could be an instrument, a song, a musical, a dirge, or a theme song ... Instead of writing about the wound, write about the music." Megan Willome
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