Cindee Snider Re > Quotes

“Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we ever imagined.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“What if illness - the stripping away of our health, our dreams, our understanding of who we are and what our future holds - is really a gift - God offering Himself to us unencumbered by all the noise, all the things that clutter our hearts and so easily fill our days? Because what if that quiet, stripped-away space is where hope is found? Where God leans in close whispering love to our weary souls until it becomes as familiar as the beating of our own hearts?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“In the midst of pain, we begin to understand the price Jesus paid for our salvation.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Biblical lament is an honest, vulnerable expression of pain, a crying out to God in faith as we are suffering.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“He spoke three simple sentences and I understood why my injuries are permanent. Every hard moment, all the pain, had prepared me to walk beside my son. In a heartbeat, it was worth it. A decade later, it still is.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“Hard times, when held with open hands and a tender heart, can prepare us for the future.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“...we fail to live in the moment. We miss the laughter, beauty and joy in our midst, trading them for stress, frustration, anxiety and anger. We forge ahead consumed with the destination while missing the journey. In a sense, we're taking God's precious gift of presence and time and telling Him it isn't what we want, that we don't have the time.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“Our circumstances might be abject, we might not think we can survive for one more day enslaved to illness, but God says, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Each of us has a story - a unique, valuable, integral part of the whole story of God. Your story is important. It matters.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Is it possible that there are things we can only learn in the darkness, in hardship, in suffering?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Pushing our pain aside...diminishes our human experience.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Maybe it's less about what we can do than about how much we can love. More about walking with others through the pain than seeking a solution for the pain. Maybe presence is our greater purpose.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“It isn't our circumstances that make life worth living. It's God.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Sustained loss can sometimes seem never-ending, like a bleak, eternal winter of the soul. Yet spring always returns. Even on the heels of the longest, coldest winter, tender new growth emerges from once frozen soil.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“Story, because it is relatable, memorable and often unobtrusive, can help us to see through new eyes.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“God has graciously sewn laughter into our days, bright moments tucked among the shadows of illness and pain, and while those moments don't change our circumstances, they can lessen our pain and shift our hearts toward joy.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Could our plodding, our daily persevering through a life we didn't expect, don't want and didn't choose, actually bring blessing?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Sharing our stories is a vital part of doing life together. The disciples shared their stories and changed the world, not because they were extraordinary men, but because they told about an extraordinary God.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Being asked to help can sometimes be as difficult as asking for , because it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, aggravating and inconvenient. Yet we are called to open the door to inconvenience.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Purpose from God's perspective looks entirely different than purpose from culture's perspective.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“...story is where hope begins.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Lectio Divina is an opportunity to slow down and experience God's Word deeply. An opportunity to savor the words of Scripture, to sit at God's table, to be nourished, fed and refreshed. An invitation to be fully present with our holy God.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“On our difficult paths we need truth to speak louder than the lies of despair.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.”
― Cindee Snider Re

“Often when we seek comfort, what we long for is healing. If God removed the pain, frustration, discomfort or illness each time we sought His comfort, would we be drawn to Him out of love or simply opportunity?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness