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“That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.”
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
― The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
“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?”
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
― Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.”
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“It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed. But we must do so in a way that doesn’t cut off an effective (and often the only) treatment for the chronically ill, many of whom are able to function in this world at all only because of the small respite that responsible opiate use provides.”
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