This week's blog post is a special guest post from Tabitha over at Living Faithfully with Autoimmune Disease. ..... If I’m honest with myself and others, I would say that I grew up in the worst environment that a child could be raised in. Between an abusive home life and five years being placed in … Continue reading On Trials and Faith
Over the course of my life with Christ I have often said that "I am not called to mission work" and that "I am not a gifted evangelist". But that, as Mauri Povich would say, is a lie. A couple years back I started listening to a podcast hosted by a couple educational YouTubers whose … Continue reading On Podcasts and the Great Commission
So I am one of those people, perhaps you are too, who insists on carrying all the groceries from the car to the house in one trip. It may be because I'm too lazy to make multiple trips, but it probably also has to do with my insistence on self-reliance and refusal to ask for … Continue reading On Groceries and Grace
You may have heard the buzzword "Intersectional" bandied about on the interwebs and elsewhere. As Wikipedia describes it, "Intersectionality considers that various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other but are interwoven together." We all carry these different labels, some come attached with certain ideas about privilege and … Continue reading On Intersectionality and the Kingdom
When I was in college I took Abnormal Psychology and in my textbook there was a case study for a particular condition that read just like a day in my life. I knew I had some struggles but I had never known that there was a formal diagnosis for what I was dealing with - … Continue reading On Anxiety and the Power of Thoughts
We are almost two weeks into a new year. I know it's an arbitrary distinction, but for me there has always been something magical about turning the page onto a new year. Fresh calendar, fresh start. If only, right? If only it were as easy as turning the page on the calendar to truly get … Continue reading On Prayer and Fresh Starts
Back in the spring of 2018, in the midst of ongoing testing for what would eventually get diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis, I pursued genetic testing to see if I had a heritable risk for cancer. See my grandpa died of cancer, my lito died of cancer, my grandmother died of cancer when I was just … Continue reading On Inheritance and Death
So it has been a while since I last updated, and when last I updated my health was still very much up in the air. A big question mark looming over the start of the year. After my EMG, lots more blood work and seeing two different specialists the diagnosis I received was.... *drum roll … Continue reading On Answers and Moving Forward
Tomorrow I am going to have an EMG. Of all the appointments and testing I have subjected myself to in the last several weeks, this is by far the most nerve-wracking. The truth is there is a very good chance that my muscle twitches (technical term: fasiculations) are completely benign. Nothing more than an annoyance … Continue reading On Anxiety and Hope
So I’ve been having these muscle twitches off and on for a few weeks now. Some days there are none, others just a few, then there are days like today where they come and go much of the evening. I’m working with a neurologist to find out what is causing them, that’s why I had … Continue reading On Health and Mysteries
