Living Chronically Blessed

God is a God of beginnings. His desire is to be the foundation of our lives. When God isn’t our firm foundation, then the rest of our life is on shifting sand and headed for collapse. (Matthew 7:24-27) It has been my experience that when I try and put anything else as my foundation, chaos…

So, I did a thing this past month… I had the opportunity to make a video/ give a message to my grandmom’s church’s youth group girls in Virginia. Y’all, the amount of pressure I put on myself for this video was downright embarrassing. My mom taught me that if I’m going to do anything, I…

Remember that Wednesday night when you found out that professional basketball was canceled, that disease you heard about on the news was now considered a pandemic, and Tom Hanks was fighting this now not-so-distant disease? Remember the days following when kids got sent home from school, companies started telling their employees to work from home,…

“Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta. The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When…

Last week on Instagram I mentioned having a “pre-game/pre-appointment” ritual. I would say everybody has things they do to prepare for the regular things in their lives such as work, school, meals, or whatever it may be. One of my regular things in life happens to be doctor’s appointments. Going to the doctor frequently comes…

paralyzed by fear. Fear is always looming around us and if we are not vigilant we can easily find ourselves paralyzed in its grips. Fear has always been something that I’ve had to battle. If there were recordings of my prayer time, you would see that for 22 years, almost daily, I have had some…

ice cream with a friend. Yesterday I met a friend in downtown Kansas City. After finding a table outside that was socially distanced from those around us, we disinfected the table and ourselves, pulled down our masks, and began to chat while eating our melting ice cream from the 90-degree heat. It seemed like such…

On Monday I had my second life-saving device put into my body. The catheter from my port goes into my heart and provides direct access for medications into my bloodstream. I had my previous port for almost 3 years and I watched that device save my life multiple times. Unlike most of my other surgeries/scars…

God didn’t promise us that this life would be easy or without its trouble, matter of fact, He promised us the opposite. You are not alone and you are not “less spiritual” because you face trouble. Although your trouble is uniquely yours and my trouble is uniquely mine, the fact is that we all have…

I am indeed in pain 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. On an average night I wake up 2-3 times in pain and there’s never a moment in my life that I’m not in physical pain. Some days are worse than others, but I am thankful for the bad days because they reveal…