I lost count of how many JoJoisms I have written, but I started writing some of them when I was a teenager. I’m getting dangerously close to 60 so…that’s a LONG time! I thought you might like to take a little walk down memory lane with me. This was the first JoJoism I ever actually […]
Read the rest of this entry »At the age when doctors ask odd questions
I can’t believe it’s October 2018 already! Wasn’t it just June…1997? You know you’re getting older when the decades fly by. But seriously, life has changed a whole bunch since I began this blog and since I began writing JoJoisms so many years ago. Now that I’m in my mid..ok, later, 50s, I find my attention […]
Read the rest of this entry »The first step in getting out of survival mode
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 »Three Ways to Discover Your Mission
Several weeks ago, I talked about that God isn’t a Genie we can order a cure from, that when we feel alone…God is with us, and why sometimes God chooses not to heal us–because He has a plan to use us. This week, I’d like to share three ways we can discover a mission God […]
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 »Six Reasons Why Chronic Issues are Different
When I was about to have my first child, I went to a birthing class for The Bradley Method (different philosophy, but similar idea to La Maz). The teacher said something I will always remember because it fits as a motto for so many things in life. She said, “You can stand just about anything […]
Read the rest of this entry »Why doesn’t God heal me?
Sometimes it’s hard to understand why some people are allowed to remain in their struggle while others are delivered from their suffering. We ask God and sometimes even demand that God tell us why He keeps us this way. To some, this may sound like sin and maybe it is, but it is human nature […]
Read the rest of this entry »When you feel alone…God
I’ve talked to so many women with chronic illness in the past several years that I’ve been writing my blog and there is one thing that we all have in common: we all feel alone at times. We may each have a different set of issues, symptoms. We may be different ages, have a different life […]
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 […]
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