One thing you might have noticed over the course of my blog posts are that I am a Christian, and I have fibromyalgia. It can be difficult to juggle fibromyalgia with faith – sometimes it feels like God is upset with me since I am in so much pain. However, I’ve found some Bible verses …
It’s been another rough week for my fibromyalgia, and I had another flareup. I’ve spent tons of time in bed, trying to sleep, and once my doctor prescribed me some non-addictive sleeping pills, a lot more time in bed actually sleeping. I still feel exhausted and in pain, but I’m getting there. It’s terrible that …
So I’ve been trying to get into Bible journaling over the past couple of weeks. I got a journaling Bible on Easter Sunday, and since then I’ve been doing an illustration each day or so. But something I’ve noticed a lot on Pinterest is that some of these seem to be so involved and require …
My Easter this year has been different than other years, although every year my Easter seems to be different. My parents live about two hours away, and my fiancé’s parents were out of town, so we are having Easter by ourselves. Our only Christian friends invited us to their church (Baptist), and since my fiancé …
This is actually a post based on a Bible study I helped organize about a year ago when I was part of the Catholic Student Organization at my college. We found a variety of verses that pertained to mental illness and self care, and then read them and talked about them in our Bible study …
I understand how difficult it is to get the courage (yes, it takes courage) to go to church when you feel lost or hopeless. I’ve struggled with mental illness almost my entire life, and since I’ve become a Christian, it’s been hard for me to see people I know having such strong faith lives. Going …
Compared to most Christians my age, I have only recently come to the faith. I was not raised in a Christian household (by either my mother and stepfather or my dad and stepmother) – we celebrated Christmas and Easter, but didn’t attend church or talk about the meanings of the holidays. Before I started college, …