"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." - L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables A Life Raft to Save Us From Drowning In Despair Whenever illness is at it's worst; bringing darkness, a well-meaning person will often advise to "never give up hope." The promise of hope is a life-vest; the only thing that can save us from sinking into the depths of the abyss below. A light to drown out the darkness of despair and...
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Being undiagnosed and having no answers for the peculiar going on inside our bodies is very much like being stuck in a darkened room with no light. [caption id="attachment_71739" align="alignnone" width="1125"] Living without a diagnosis is very much like life in the dark[/caption] After every uneventful doctors' appointments, and every negative test results only moves the light switch further from our grasp, and we remain, still in the dark. You begin to fear every upcoming appointment for the worry that this meeting will...
Continue readingPresents have all been ferociously unwrapped, the Christmas decorations have been taken down, and 2015 has been erased to make room for a new start that 2016 promises us. [caption id="attachment_70114" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Just like in the sand, 2015 is being erased to make way for 2016[/caption] It's been a time of reflection, in which we acknowledge the people, events, and the changes that helped to define what the year has meant to us, as well as a time to look forward to the future...
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Well, today marks the start of a brand new start month. The start of something new - whether it be a new day, month or year. It is like a fresh, white piece of paper, in which the past and everything that has come before forgotten, and instead, we are allowed to start afresh. To start our story anew. It opens up new possibilities and opportunities and allows us the hope for a better today and tomorrow (and beyond). And this is most important when living with...
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Imagine you are a marathon runner, struggling at the half-way mark. You are fatigued, suffering from muscle cramps and out of breath. However, you are determined to complete the marathon and cross the finish line. So, what spurs you onto the finish the marathon despite the pain and fatigue? I can imagine that one thought that would help is to know that the end is in sight and awareness that the pain and fatigue will eventually end. [caption id="attachment_72699" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Unlike marathon runners,...
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