It's UP.
The miraculous article I wrote - both in content and in timeliness - it is up!
About two weeks ago now, I received a message - we want to share your story, can you send us a 2-3 page piece by Sunday? If it had been anyone other than the fabulous editors at Love What Matters, I might have asked for a few extra days. But since their work is with vulnerable humans sharing real, raw stories… I promptly messaged back, all in.
The rest is history and today my story about living life with chronic disease is UP!
No one really shares about what it’s like to live in the gray areas, friends… but truly, I wasn’t called to this path to be quiet about this path. So, I share it all in this article hopes that it might change one life.
Maybe it’s yours.
Dig deeper.
Do you know someone else living with disease? Do you live with one?
Author and historian Kate Bowler did a wonderful job of explaining life in the gray recently on World Cancer Day last week. If you haven’t watched this video yet, I hope you do.
Seen & heard.
Terri - one of my co-leaders at Moms for Mental Health - sent me this awesome love note from one of the writers at Proverbs31. Midway through it says, “Motherhood had landed me on the bathroom floor, exhausted, depleted and desperate for a break. Feeling trapped, I prayed God would somehow make a way for me to have a few hours to recharge…”
I have felt this. I have seen God show up. And somehow, it still surprises me every time. When was the last time you recharged? Do you need to?
I can’t quite explain why I’m ending with this picture of me with my BFF-slash-top-canine-companion. But maybe it’s because it was back in summer when the pandemic looked like it might end soon… and I’d really like for it to end soon. And of course, I miss summer.
But maybe it’s also because I see joy here. Despite long nights with a child who struggles with sleep and long days in official lockdown back then, I see joy.
And joy matters.
Yours. Mine. Ours.
Cheering you on, lovelies -
J.
Barefoot Preacher & Founder,