Cancer: 7 Things You Need to Know to Help

By Georgia Shaffer
Sara sat looking totally overwhelmed. At the age of thirty-five, she had learned she had breast cancer. “I feel like I just got hit by a Mack truck,” Sara said.
As a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and a cancer survivor who, 18 years ago, was given a 2 percent chance to [...]

Do You Have a Teen With a Chronic Illness?

If your teenager lives with a chronic illness HopeLab is a nonprofit organization that you will want to check out and browse their website. It can also be encouraging to share with your teenager about what is going on in the world of science that is specifically geared towards improving the lives of teenagers who [...]

Devotion – When God Says ‘Go’ But Your Body Says ‘No’

“And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, He said, ‘Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.’ But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust Him or obey Him.” (Deuteronomy 9:23)
Last week I posted a link to an article about planning [...]

The Impact of Our Attitude – Part 1 of 2

By Sandy Mayle
The longer I live with my disease, the more I realize the impact of attitude on chronic illness. Attitude, to me, is more important than test results. It is more important than medical history, than financial resources, than competent and compassionate doctors, than promising surgeries, than helpful medications, than how my loved ones [...]

Dealing with Messy Piles in Life

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2 Cor 1:3-4)
There is nothing worse, well there [...]

Beautiful Prayer Journal Available for Free Download

This is a resource that I found and am passing along from WomensMinistry.net. They share the following about the author of the prayer journal, Wendi.
Wendi Westmoreland is a woman who prays. She provides thoughtful instruction and examples from her own prayer life in this prayer journal as she let’s you in on a bit of [...]

Embracing Brokenness with Diane Dike – Part 2

Yesterday we introduced you to Diane Dike. She is the founder and President of Second Chance with Saving Grace. (SCwSG) a non-profit 501c(3) organization whose mission is to impact the world by focusing on serving, evangelizing, equipping, empowering, and encouraging people to be all God created them to be. They visit schools, churches, hospitals, prisons, [...]

Television Show w/ Lisa Airs this Week

In February I had the honor of meeting Maureen Pratt, author of Peace in the Storm, and getting to be a guest on her new television program, also called Peace in the Storm. It airs this week April 18-April 24th, and if you don’t happen to get the channel (I don’t either!) you can [...]

The First 5 Steps to Take After a New Diagnosis

by Lisa Copen
I easily can remember the day that my life shifted into a new kind of normal when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. At the age of 24, having dealt with a few weeks of swelling in various parts of my body, sometimes to the point of being disabling, my doctor called me [...]

Couples Are Divorcing to Pay Medical Bills & Get Needed Coverage

What happens when you or your spouse has a chronic illness and it gets to the point where you financially are out of resources? Recently “The Today Show” had a story about a couple who dealt with the costs in the only way they knew how in the USA.
The got divorced.
The woman’s husband, who was [...]

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