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Resources, tips, and tools to encourage and inspire everyone affected by chronic illness. More than 100 beautifully designed, FREE printables, and there are always more coming. Step in, check back, download a little hope today.
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Chronic Joy offers 100+ beautifully designed FREE printables. There is something for everyone! From Anxiety resources to Creative Ways to Serve, from Praying the Psalms to Children’s Coloring Pages, from Questions to Connect You as a Couple to 33 Biblical One Anothers. And there are always more coming!
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7 Ways to Thank Care-Providers
Seven simple ways to thank care-providers and remind them of how very much their care and expertise are needed and appreciated. Say "Thank You," handwrite a card, write a positive review, participate in clinic or hospital surveys and fill out feedback requests, make a donation in your care-provider's name, refer a friend or loved one, pray for your care-providers.

13 Verses to Lean Into
Lean into these verses, write them in a journal, choose one or two to memorize, and then think about who else might need to read them too. The Word of God is alive and powerful, able to bring us comfort in a way that nothing else can.

30 / 365 Photo Challenge
Photography challenges are a fun, personal challenge, a commitment to pick up your camera, phone, tablet, or Go-Pro and capture a photo every day for a month or a year.

33 Biblical "One Anothers"
Learn what it means to truly “love one another deeply from the heart.”

50 Prayer Journaling Prompts
Choose a quiet moment, open your journal, and begin with whatever thoughts are on your heart.

52 Questions of Jesus
Of the 307 questions of Jesus recorded in the Bible, 52 are listed here - one for each week of the year.

76 Questions to Connect You as a Couple
Use the questions slowly, one question and one conversation at a time over many month in any order you choose. This is an exploration and an opportunity to grow more deeply in love as you rediscover one another.
A – B

Allegory
A beautiful, artistic form of story-telling that offers us an opportunity to explore difficult, painful, or vulnerable parts of our stories from a safer distance and a fictional character’s perspective.

Anxiety Exercises
When the winds of anxiety begin to blow and the waves roll and the thunder comes, God invites us to lean a little deeper into Him. Each of these exercises is designed to help breathe a little easier and lean into the arms of God.

Ask Generous Questions
Lean into the living presence of Jesus and cultivate a deeper relationship with one another. When we slow down and really listen to each other, we grow together as the Body of Christ on earth.

Biblical Purpose
Understanding our God-given purpose is the reason something exists or was created, the reason we act or choose not to act, it encompasses intentions and objectives.

Build An Ebenezer
Remembering God's Faithfulness
God’s people built Ebenezers, touchstones of help, to anchor them in truth in the midst of frightening, painful, difficult, or challenging circumstances.

Building Your Bucket List
A bucket list is an invitation to dream with God as He encourages you to hope, reminds you of forgotten dreams, inspires your passions, and ignites His purpose for your life.
C – F

Called to Hope
Jesus is the enduring, timeless, and everlasting hope who came to seek, serve, call, forgive, rescue, redeem, and save.

#ConnectByText Ideas
Looking for a way to connect with, encourage, inspire, and love on others? Text them! Tips for Texting • Keep it short. Don’t expect a response. Write from your heart.

Coping with Grief
14 Ways to Make a Difficult Day Brighter • Grief is a journey requiring steady sips of hope, plates filled God’s unbroken promises, the comfort of community, replenishing rest, fresh air and sunshine.

Creative Photo Challenges
Photography challenges are a fun, hope-filled invitation, a commitment to pick up your camera to simply notice, and click.

Creative Ways to Connect
Looking for creative ways to connect with others as you unpack the Chronic Joy studies? This FREE printable does just that and more!

Creative Ways to Serve
Chronic illness can make serving in traditional or culturally familiar ways challenging, but not impossible. Discover creative new ways to love God and others right where you are, however you are able.

Depression Action Steps
Depression can make it difficult to practice and implement healthy self-care. Building an Action Plan gives you quick concrete steps each day.

Devotional Guide
Chronic Joy® devotionals are an invitation to take one gentle step, to pray in a comforting and familiar or perhaps new-to-you way, or to cry out on behalf of one precious life today … maybe even yours.

Emotions Wheel
God created us with a complex range of emotions which can be difficult to identify and explain. The Emotions Wheel is a tool designed to grow our emotional intelligence, thus strengthening our relationship with God as well as our compassion and empathy for others.

For A Mother's Soul
May God shower His blessings on all mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers-in-law, and mother-like figures in the world. May He give grace and strength for all your days.
G – M

Holy Attention
Eye-Spy • People Watching
Holy Attention draws us into fresh gratitude. When we pay close attention to creation we can experience the awe and wonder of God’s infinite creativity.

Holy Attention
Sight & Scroll • Spot 1 • Feast
Begin by choosing something specific – a color, shape, sound, object, or even an idea and look or listen for it throughout your day. When you find it, take a picture of it, or make note of it.

Intentional Kindness
30 Creative Ways
Pause. Seek. Notice.
Allow yourself to be inconvenienced by the will of God. Then take the first intentional step forward and see what He will do.

Joy is a Gift
In your presence there is fullness of joy! Psalm 16:11

Lament
Step in slowly. Sit with God. Allow yourself time and space to feel and experience your pain. When you’re ready, take up your pen, and explore the precious and life-giving gift of lament.

Lectio Divina
An ancient practice of slowly, contemplatively reading the words of Scripture.

Metaphor
The Language of Pain
Sometimes what we experience because of chronic illness, mental illness, pain, or suffering can not only be difficult to explain, but also (for those who don’t experience it) difficult to understand. Metaphors can be a useful tool.

Ministry of Reconciliation
To reconcile means to bring together—or to heal—that which is broken.
N – R

Note Starters
Sometimes all we need to get us started are a few words. Include these short prayers in a notecard or email, or send them in a message or text to a friend or loved one.

Note Starters to Thank Healthcare and Service Providers
Thanking healthcare and service providers is often a huge encouragement to them. Sometimes a single act of kindness and gratitude makes all the difference in someone else's life.

#PenToPaper Ideas
#PenToPaper is a ministry of the heart: God’s love, poured into us, infuses each word we write to the heart of another. What an encouraging reason to pick up your pen and write!

Praying & Writing the Psalms
What is your favorite Psalm? Why? When did you choose it? What was happening in your life at the time? Have you ever considered writing your own Psalm?

Prayer
"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him." St. Augustine

Prayer is...
"Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us." Henri Nouwen

Prayer of Examen
Beautiful in its simplicity, this ancient prayer of reflection helps refocus our hearts and minds. How often do we come to the end of a day and wonder where the time went or regret the way we handled a situation?
S – Y

Self-Care • Body & Community
Practicing physical self-care is showing your body simple kindness, generously giving it what it needs, and doing things that help you live well. Community is rooted in love, nourished in prayer, and strengthened in courageous vulnerability as we extend and receive love, kindness, and compassion.

Self-Care for your Emotions & Mind
Exercise your brain, keep your mind sharp, redirect your thoughts, and focus on what is positive and true with these ideas. Emotional self-care helps us to identify what we’re feeling and express it in healthy ways.

Self-Care for your Soul
Spend a little time getting to know God better — who He is, what He’s like, how He feels about us, and how He acts toward His creation. Pray through these verses, asking God where to grow from here.

Service in a Box
Everything you need to encourage, strengthen, inspire, and love on those who are nearest and dearest to you.
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Small Group Roles
This downloadable PDF provides helpful tips for organizing your small group and defining group roles.

Sorrow, Lament & Grief
Grief is no stranger to those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability. It is both a universally shared human experience and uniquely individual.

#StepRepPray Guide
With your doctor’s guidance, and a little creativity, exercising with chronic illness is not just possible, but can be rewarding.

#StepRepPray Log Sheet
With your doctor’s guidance, and a little creativity, exercising with chronic illness is not just possible, but can be rewarding. Log your steps, reps, and prayers.

Stewardship of Courage
The stewardship of courage begins with a deep faith in God, accessed by prayer, and lived out in patient waiting and hopeful trust.

Story Matters
Creatively Express Your Story
We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge those barriers? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of hopelessness?

Suffering & Joy
Invite a friend or family member to do a 16-Day Suffering & Joy discussion. Or use each quote as a journaling prompt. Each day, read the quote. Talk about it. Think about it. Write about it. Pray about it.

Verses to Comfort and Encourage
The most significant thing we can do when we’re lonely, anxious, afraid, or overwhelmed is to turn to the One who knows us and loves us completely – the God of all comfort.

Wonder Walks • A Prayer Guide
Wonder Walks are an invitation to savor God’s holy fingerprint in every atom of creation, to engage our senses and cultivate curiosity, to listen for His still small voice, and to delight in His extraordinary creativity.

Wonder Walks • Trail Signs
Wonder nourishes our souls, inviting us to feast on the inexplicable mystery of the Holy, witnessing God's fingerprint in every atom of creation.

You Are So Loved
Do you love yourself like God loves you? Do you live like you’re valuable? Do you live like you’re set free?
ABOUT CHRONIC JOY

Chronic Joy® Statement of Faith
We believe in salvation by grace, a free gift from God, given to all who believe in His Son Jesus Christ and accept Him as Lord and Savior.

Annual Report
Chronic Joy's mission field is tremendous - more than half the world’s population - yet our ministry focus is always one precious life at a time.

Our Programs
We offer a wide variety of programs to meet the needs of all those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability.

Who We Are & What We Do
Chronic Joy is a global resource ministry dedicated to compassionately serving all those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability.

Friend-Raising
At its core, friend-raising is all about relationship and it begins with story – our why - why we give, serve, pray, and invest in the mission and ministry of Chronic Joy.

Service in a Box
Everything you need to encourage, strengthen, inspire, and love on those who are nearest and dearest to you.
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Build an Illness Ministry
This practical guide walks you through the first steps toward building a chronic illness small group.