Posts to Ponder
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Discover hope, encouragement, purpose, and Christ-centered growth as you explore the deep questions of illness, pain, trauma, shame, grief, and so much more.
No matter the challenges you’re navigating, our Posts to Ponder will inspire you to surrender your expectations, notice gifts of joy and gratitude, and embrace your journey with hope, knowing that you are not alone.
Each blog post offers fresh grace, an invitation to ponder, an opportunity to listen, and insight for your journey. Grow in faith, one grace-soaked post at a time.
Why Doesn’t God Heal Everyone?
While I’d like to understand God’s mysteries, I don’t need to. My finite mind cannot comprehend the Infinite, but I am certain that God is purposeful, that life isn’t random, and God isn’t capricious. Whether physically healed or not, I can rest on God’s unchanging grace.
12 Gratitude Exercises: Jumpstart Your Adventure!
Gratitude exercises help us focus on and shift our perspectives to what we can be grateful for (even amid challenging circumstances). Discover 12 ideas to jumpstart your gratitude adventure.
Caregiving Reveals Our Need for the Lord
Only the Lord truly satisfies, and caregiving becomes holy ground when God uses it to open our eyes to see our need for Him. As difficult as caregiving may be, it serves a redemptive purpose when it leads us to cry to the Lord: Every hour, I need You. You are my hope.
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Kintsugi: The Story of Our Scars
God pursues the places where we have been wounded, weakened, or failed, where we are vulnerable, where anxiety spins and depression sinks, where loneliness is rampant and grief lingers, and where suffering and loss are constant or sustained.
Telling Your Medical Story
What is a Medical Story? For our healthcare teams to build the best possible treatment plans for us, we need to learn to keep well-maintained logs of symptoms (and their severity), medications, treatments, dates, and brief notes. Keep track with our Medical Story Log.