Back in July, our area had a bout of rainy, humid weather. The weather aggravated my arthritis to the point that I spent some days on my back, with ice packs on various aching joints.
Since then, wanting to get a handle on chronic pain, I’ve come to some conclusions which I believe will help me deal with the self-pity which comes calling along with the pain. I offer them here for any one of the millions of people who live with chronic pain:
Chronic pain can’t keep God from loving me. It cannot and does not keep God from seeing me as a person of inestimable value.
Chronic pain cannot keep me from returning God’s love. It cannot keep me from finding ways to express that love. It may change the ways I do it; it cannot keep me from doing it.
Chronic pain cannot keep me from serving others; it may change the ways I do it; it cannot keep me from doing it.
Scripture passages to consider: Romans 5:1-8; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 13:5 (which quotes Deuteronomy 31:6)
©P. Booher
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It is so refreshing to read the words of someone who really knows what chronic illness is like! God bless you sister.
Thank you, Alan. God bless you, too.