Tag: chronic illness
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Things to love ❤
Life cereal, picking wildflowers, Epsom salt baths, hot tea toesocks, fuzzy blankets, kitty purring, purple misty mountains, dish soap bubbles, quiet morning coffee with my Youversion app…… I am thankful, Jesus.
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Looooooong
This trial is getting looong!! Ten years of getting sicker and sicker. MS And heart condition and prodigal children and finances crunching because I can’t help. (Hold on. Not all negative….enough of that out there: am I right?) I’m going to reboot. #overcomeevilwithgood And now I broke my leg and im stuck in bed for…
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Why did I get sick?
Good question. God’s goodness does not mean we will not get hurt. Not in this fallen world, anyway. His goodness goes deeper than that…. … Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing And I think those who don’t have it miss one of God’s mercies.“ –from a letter published in Phil Yancey s book…
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‘Cause I got ISSues🌼
I wrote this about a year ago. Found it today. I thought it might help someone else with their stuff. I know it helped me! I started to read a devotional yesterday, from my youbible. I’m just now getting back from Trigger Land. Rough day for my family. Rough day for me. (I know. I need…
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Wholesome pleasures
I’m learning how to make other choices than food at least every other time ifeel bad. Pet an animal. Hug. Cook. Snuggle. the marriage (yay rah!) bed. Sunshine. Candle. Aromatherapy. Bible. Sermon. Nap. Get warm (and there’s more in that than I thought) 80s music. Encouraging someone else. work on my blog
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Remarkable
Looking for 💘 meaning and connection in mostly good places Food. Talent. Power. Pleasure. Substances. Academia. Conclusion: unreliable sack of broken 💔 wind, Then came you: Lovely abundance Righteously impervious to outrageous fortune’s slings and arrows Beauty in places where I’ve been burnt I pass right through~Joyfully rolling with the strangely intangible punches Dressed in…
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Loneliness 🌼
I want to be a deep spirited friend to the people in my life. I’ve learned early (like preverbal) that I could not count on anyone. Therefore: I’ve tended to be deeply lonely. (Instructive thought) Jesus has answered that need finally ( well I let Him answer that need finally ) now that I’m 50.…