Parents with Chronic Illness • A Love Letter to You
A letter to the parents with chronic illness – you are not a failure – your sickness has not lessened who you are, but has added to it.
A letter to the parents with chronic illness – you are not a failure – your sickness has not lessened who you are, but has added to it.
Parents of chronically ill kids are the best people. They’re the best at encouraging without offering advice, at listening without trying to one-up with their own story. And they’re the best at offering empathy that comes from having walked a similar road. I could learn from these parents.
How do I hold this living grief? How do I drink this boiling sea of suffering? Father, gather these shards. Redeem the years the locusts have eaten. Scoop up these bits and pieces, and hold them in Your Hands until Your grace floods every crevice…