Death of my former pastor a month ago. Little angel babies sick. News of cancer in the community. The sound of a helicopter flying over me, taking a church member to the city hospital. Bad news is everywhere. Everywhere you turn, you find someone is suffering, someone is hurting, someone is just keeping a head above water. It's hard to cope. You wonder why God doesn't just take it all away. Why doesn't He just make everything better? There is a word that came to me this morning. Grace. The ...
Tackling Costochondritis – the History of My Issues With It
I have a series of blog entries on my struggles with pinpointing the cause and the treatment for costochondritis. During these next few weeks and months, I'm going to document the inception of my issues with costochondritis, my struggles with pain, what's helped and what's not, and my research on holistic treatment of it. Costochondritis is an inflammation of the sternum. It is often a temporary problem that some have, but for others like me, it becomes a chronic condition. I would say that ...