Be Strong and Take Heart
This lament from Psalm 31 stopped me in my tracks. Those words, written so long ago, speaks to my experience with chronic illness even today. Perhaps you can identify too?
Executive Director and Co-Founder of Chronic Joy®
Pamela, a leader and a visionary following God's call to inspire those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, and chronic pain, believes that every precious life impacted by illness is both vital and purposed.
Pamela is a wife of more than 35 years, the mom of three married children, and a grandma of six. She is diagnosed with chronic migraines and other chronic conditions. She enjoys baking sourdough bread and chocolate chip cookies, drinking hot tea, being outdoors, and reading (almost always more than one book at a time).
This lament from Psalm 31 stopped me in my tracks. Those words, written so long ago, speaks to my experience with chronic illness even today. Perhaps you can identify too?
Not a single second is wasted when we are still and take our hearts, hopes, and dreams before the Lord. Praying aligns us with the Lord's heart.
Together has been an important word as I’ve invested my time in the ministry of Chronic Joy for the past years. Each day is filled with much learning for both my ministry partner, Cindee, and me – much leaning and pressing into the Father. He is building this ministry brick-by-brick, and we sense His pleasure as we give whatever we’ve got.
When my health began to decline, I started to see my tracker as an enemy, because I couldn’t see one step forward, just two steps back...