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  • Habits

    As you know, I had much-needed time away this past week. While there wasn’t a lot of time to simply contemplate, God did use the time away to work in my heart. I realized that I have allowed some habits to creep in. I can’t say they are necessarily “bad” habits, but not the best…

  • His Ways

    This past week, I had been out of town for a much-needed vacation. The following passage comes to mind. Isaiah 55:8-13, “8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts…

  • LWD: Behold Our God

    God uses weak things. He uses foolish things. Yesterday, I had the unique opportunity of meeting a group of people who had only known me for my work, never seeing my disability. My hearts prayer was that God would be glorified. My weakness is obvious when you see me in person. As I was driving…

  • LWD:Blessed Be the Name of the Lord, Part 2

    Often the Lord allows a test in an area of which He has shown us. It happened yesterday. Remember I said that this area of praising and blessing the name of the Lord is something I don’t want to fail in, something I struggle with? God gave me opportunity to practice it! Air quality is…

  • LWD: Blessed Be the Name of the Lord

    Frankly, writing this post is scary to me as I am afraid of failing in this area. How is that for a way to start the post? Job 1:21b, KJV: “the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Am I willing to always say, “Blessed be the name of the Lord”? Will…

  • LWD: Songs in the Night

    Memories flooded back yesterday. I was once again making a drive to and from the hospital in a nearby city to care for a loved one. A few years ago, we had made that trek frequently, often with tears. While I drove, I sang along with what had become a favorite song during those rough…

  • LWD: Joy of the Lord

    Nehemiah 8:10b, KJV: “…for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” The people had just heard the words of the Lord and wept at what they heard as they understood what God was saying. Yet, Ezra told them not to. He told them to have joy. Why? The joy of the Lord is their strength. This…

  • LWD: Why Worry? The Battle Belongs to Him

    What are you facing today? Good news. There is no need to worry. In a life of disability and chronic illness or isolation, there is often much that causes concern. The mountains seem too high to climb. The battle is just too large on a daily, tedious, monotonous basis. Don’t worry. God is in control.…

  • LWD: God is Dependable.

    One thing that I learn repeatedly in this life with disability is depending on God. I cannot. He can. In disappointment, He is enough. When overwhelmed, He is sufficient. God is dependable. He can. Psalm 73:26, KJV: “26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for…

  • LWD: Trust

    Trust. As someone living with disability, we must trust caregivers, doctors, so many people. In college, I blew out my shoulder and could no longer push myself in my wheelchair. The only way to get around campus was to rely on others to push me… everywhere. My friends set up a network of students who…