faith, life with chronic illness
Her name is Hesed. She just turned a year old, and she’s trying my patience with every passing day. God was supposed to bring me a puppy that would make the perfect service dog — at least, that was my prayer. And it all seemed so perfectly God-aligned. The...
life with chronic illness
My Lupus Story Have you ever come across a tangle of necklaces? Maybe you just shoved them in a drawer at one point, or packed several for a trip. Inevitably, when you pull them out, they’ve become so completely ensnarled that you can’t tell where one ends and the...
faith, life with chronic illness
Our weakness is required. I have been spending a lot of time in Scripture lately. I seem to be going back and forth between really good books (like Dance, Stand, Run by Jess Connelly and Through the Eyes of a Lion by Levi Lusko) and the Word to help me through this...
life with chronic illness
I am tired. I am tired. I am tired of being polite. Of holding back. Of containing. This constant containment is eating me alive. I feel trapped. Ready to burst out of my skin. My body is holding me hostage to this disease. My polite sensibilities are holding me...
faith, life with chronic illness
Just one step… Sometimes, it feels like too much. Too big. Too far. When we look at where we are, today, and try to see where we hope to end up. Or where God’s told us we’ll end up, for that matter. It can feel too big for us to bridge that gap on our own. The...
