In the early years, I was on my own with the losses, fighting the pain every day, watching my life burn to the ground, and compiling a list of grievances against God and the world.
All tagged pain
Do Not Care?
When the storm hits the disciples’ boat as it crosses the Sea of Galilee, Jesus’s apathy is noted. Could there be anything more apathetic than sleeping?
(Story Day) And Now a Word from Our Sponsor: Pain
We now pause to bring you a word from our sponsor, the one who makes our story possible: Pain.
Hope, Despair, and the Suicide Disease
With a diagnosis of CRPS my best hope was physical therapy, where I would learn the true meaning of the cliché “No pain, No gain.”
Sparks of Hope
My first surgery in July of 2007, was billed as a Tarsal Tunnel Release based on a diagnosis of Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome,
The Dog Bit My Nose
Being trauma informed doesn’t excuse someone else’s bad behavior; it invites you to offer a healing presence in order to establish deeper relationship.
(Story Day) Ghosts that Haunt
By the time I went into surgery on July 19th (2007), I had completed my trips to San Antonio, Austin, Malibu, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Fire of Suffering
Can there be love without suffering? Doesn’t love inevitably and always lead us to suffering?
Don’t Check Your Wounds at the Door
I think the church could and should offer a different kind of space: a space that welcomes authentic selves, wounds and all.
When You're Standing in the Struggle
Even in the lives of the redeemed, one does not have to look far to find struggle and pain.
(Story Day) Land of the White Nights
The first half of the New Year (2007) came with the most exciting and demanding speaking schedule I had ever accepted.
(Story Day) The Year of the Stress Fracture
With my diagnosis from Dr. C— in hand, I picked up my useless left shoe, replaced by the big black walking boot.
(Story Day) In the Beginning ... there was Pain
I’m convinced that God was the first to flinch, the first to feel pain, while it took some time before humans had a clue what they had done to themselves and their world.
(Friday is Story Day) ... My Best Day (2)
As I lay motionless on the emergency room bed, unable to feel a thing from my toes to my shoulders, it suddenly occurred to me that we might have a problem.
(Friday is Story Day) My Best Day: 7 Years Ago this Week
By the time Dana got me to the Emergency Room, I was paralyzed from the neck down—I couldn’t move or feel a thing from my shoulders to my toes.
Running to Trust God
I stopped trusting God with my kids a while ago because of the accident, because of the C-section, because of the therapy, because of all the pain, all the fear, all the brokenness in the world.
Litany of Hope
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
be blessed!
He is the compassionate Father and God
of all comfort.
Top 5 CHARIS Posts in 2017
I'm pleased to look back on 2017 and share with you these most-read posts last year.
A Litany for Those in Pain
O Jesus, man of sorrows and suffering, hear me.
From the desire of being known,
deliver me, Jesus.
Shifting Focus
Many times I pray for God to let me see people through his eyes, and every once in a while I allow that to happen.