Category Archives: Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain and Losing Control
I decided to take charge of my health. In early 2011, my 35th birthday quickly approached. I don’t know what came over me, but I couldn’t be satisfied with the fact that I recently enrolled in martial arts classes. I’ve … Continue reading
Lamenting Travel Loss
Lament helps us to come to terms with what chronic illness and pain have cost us. Continue reading
How Chronic Pain Changes Our Experience of Time
I am a student of the primary biblical languages (Hebrew/Greek). One of the differences between languages is how verbs reflect time. English is a very “tense” conscious language. One of the earliest concepts we learn as elementary students is the … Continue reading
My Personal Thoughts During the Pandemic
I never felt more like I was in a movie scene than when I picked up my kids’ assignments in school drive-thru’s from teachers wearing masks. Continue reading
Judgment and Chronic Pain
Not judging means we don’t pretend to know what we cannot know. It means we refuse to belittle a fellow human being just because their story or situation makes us uncomfortable. It means we see someone’s suffering and know that we too suffer, even if in different ways. It means we give full attention to voices of others and that we believe them as we would want to believed. Continue reading
Chronic Pain and Mission
But it is important that even in our worst of times, that we do not lose hope of having better and more meaningful days. Continue reading
Why God Doesn’t Need Us And Why That’s a Good Thing
Does God need you to suffer? What it means to realize that God doesn’t need anything…not even you. Continue reading
Freedom For The Chronically Ill
“One day we will have our freedom from this body of pain and suffering!” Continue reading
So You Are Doing Better…Now What?
When you are feeling better…Grab hold of this particular season that you have been given like you never would have before you got sick or hurt. Continue reading