I wrote an article a while back, 18 Steps to Living Better with Chronic Illness. I thought I’d expand on these one at a time to share just how this works and how it has helped me. Sometimes it’s hard to see things with a short blurb without really expanding the concept. So over the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Don’t sing songs to a heavy heart
I often gain insight from reading my Bible in the mornings. I shared last time about one. Well, this one was on the very same day: “Like one who takes away a garment in cold weather, And like vinegar on soda, Is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.” -Proverbs 25:20. I’ve read through […]
Read the rest of this entry »Remember your creator in the days of your youth
I was reading my Bible recently when this passage hit me: “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’” -Ecclesiastes 12:1 and it struck me why some people are able to move past devastating news […]
Read the rest of this entry »God is NOT a Genie!
I’m going to go into this a lot more in detail in the coming months, but I just have to put this out there. God is NOT a genie! When you are chronically ill, you often run into devotionals and gurus who tell you to pray and God will take away all your issues. The […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Year of Faith that Never (Always) Was
I’ve said it before: God has a sense of humor. Sometimes He gives you EXACTLY what you pray for, but it’s not exactly HOW you envisioned it when you prayed. It all started in late 2013, after much prayer, when I declared that 2014 would be The Year of Faith over at Art of Eloquence, my business […]
Read the rest of this entry »Discovery: Spiritual Deficiency
As I was writing my blog post for this week sharing some tips for living with chronic illness, I came to this topic. After last week’s post where I confessed my struggle with depression, I felt this topic needed to be a post of its own. Here’s why. We can plan all we like, we can buy things to help us […]
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