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 […]
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. […]
About Diamonds 2021 What is Diamonds 2021? Diamonds is an annual online conference for chronically ill Christians. Millions of chronically ill people battle impossible trials every single day. But so many of them feel so alone. The speakers of Diamonds 2021 want them to know they aren’t — not by a long shot. The theme […]
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 […]
The New Year can be a time of thrill, excitement, anticipation, and hope as we plan events, set goals, make changes, and look ahead to fresh adventures. But what about those of us whose daily lives won’t change, whose diagnoses and conditions will stay the same, whose struggles will be just as difficult on January […]
When you’re dealing with a chronic illness, it’s easy to focus on all the things we can’t do or don’t have. But God clearly communicates in Scripture His expectation that we give thanks “in everything” (I Thess 5:18). Including in chronic illness. So as we celebrate Thanksgiving, if you’re struggling to find things to be […]
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