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Having a bad day? Cue the music
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What is the soundtrack of your life? What songs lift you up? Make you want to move? Make you laugh? Make you cry? What songs do you take with you when you’re going to the doctor’s office? Or, having surgery? Or, waiting for test results? What songs bring out the best in you? What songs…
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mpratt
Illness can be very ugly. Yes, it can be that horrible blot on our lives, and certainly change our appearance in undesirable ways. And one of the hardest things to handle it is when we’re out in public – or planning to be out in public – and we know that we look “different” or…
Spring will come
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mpratt
A dear friend of mine who also suffers from severe lupus is not a believer. Nevertheless, we share a very profound sense of faith that’s summed up by saying, “Spring will come.” Of course, from my perspective, the phrase relates to knowing that suffering leads to grace and joy and that Our Lord’s trial on…
Never Enough
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mpratt
If you’re sick, in pain, and low, you might have heard yourself say, “I don’t have enough support.” or, “I don’t have enough money to get the care that I need.” or, even, “I don’t have enough energy/mobility/resources/hope to feel better.” At times, I’ve said similar things myself. Seems like, for example, one flare subsides…
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