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What Hurts More Than Pain
How hospitality overcomes the isolation of chronic pain and illness: Henri Nouwen defines hospitality as “a constant willingness to see one’s own pain and suffering as rising from the depth of the human condition that we all share.” Continue reading
Posted in Chronic Pain and Support
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You Are Not Just Your Body — Part 2
God can use your illness to create deeper spirituality in you, but it comes from a willingness on your part to be shaped. Continue reading
He Is Risen Means You Get a New Body
We exchange perishable for imperishable, dishonor for glory, weakness for power, natural body for spiritual body. Continue reading
Posted in Resurrection
Tagged Easter, Resurrection and Chronic Illness, Resurrection and the Body
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You Are Not Just Your Body — Part 1
And when you have fallen into the trap as viewing yourself as only a body gone wrong, then that is going to damage your self-perception. Continue reading
Posted in Chronic Pain
Tagged Chronic Illness and the Body, Chronic Pain and Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Depression, Chronic Pain and God, Chronic Pain and Medicine, Chronic Pain and Science, Chronic Pain and seeing a counselor, Chronic Pain and Self Image, Chronic Pain and the Body, Chronic Pain and the Mind, Chronic Pain and the Whole Person, spoonies
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Broken and Mended and the Future
Broken and Mended is not just a support group in Woodward, OK, but a movement to “connect hurting people to Jesus and each other. Continue reading
Better Than Happy
Do you struggle with happiness? Maybe there’s something better to live for than personal happiness, something that will lead to deeper satisfaction than happiness ever could. Continue reading
Why Me? Why Not Me?
“Who is God?” is a better question than “Why me?” Some reflections on Job and #ChronicPain. Continue reading
