Thank you, Emily, for sharing your story of true love in chronic illness with us! Emily lives in Colorado, where she works as a marketing coordinator by day and a cakepop baker by night. She and Andrew will make their together home not far from her current home after they marry in May. (If you’d […]
Thank you, Kristen, for sharing your story of true love in chronic illness with us! Kristen and her husband, Tim, live in North Carolina, where Tim is studying at Bob Jones University. Kristen and Tim both answered our questions in the following video. If you’d like to read as well as listen, we’ve provided a […]
Thank you, Kristi, for sharing your story of true love in chronic illness with us! Kristi and her husband, JJ, live with their two boys in southern Maine. JJ owns a property management business and Kristi, when not running after her kiddos, blogs about home in Maine. (For more of her chronic illness journey, read […]
We’re so thankful to Genna for sharing her story with us, and now with you as well! Each post in this series will include the questions we asked and each woman’s first-person answers. We hope these stories of true love in chronic illness–full of the real, the difficult, the beautiful, and ultimately the Gospel–can be […]
What is love? When you hear the word love, what comes to your mind? Do you think of romance, chocolate, roses, or something else? My fiancé, friends, and family joke around with me that I love “love.” What can I say, I’m a hopeful romantic at heart! But it wasn’t until I started dating my […]
I love driving down Main Street. At night. When the streets are empty and the air is quiet and only a few people move on the sidewalk under the glowing lamps. Put me on Main Street in the middle of the day, however, and you’ll find me gripping the steering wheel with both hands, gritting […]
It’s been a decade, but the dreams still come. Each is a warped version of the same dilemma: I’m trying to find my way to my class, I have all the wrong books, I have no schedule, I’m too late to register, I can’t find my way to my dorm room, or some such problem. […]
The Strategy for God’s Peace Last week we looked at Romans 12 and ways to battle for our mind in the difficulties of chronic illness. Now let’s look at another equally important passage on thinking and anxiety.* “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made […]
“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” Hebrews 10:35-36 I keenly remember the unusual, extreme anxiety that gripped my chest. The unexplained pain in my back would not ease. The desperately […]
“Hold unswervingly to the hope you profess, for I am faithful. Sometimes–especially when many things are going wrong–all you can do is hold on to Me. You would love to sort things out in your mind and find a way to go forward, but often this is impossible. The best thing to do at such […]
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