Taking a Stand Part 2 – Janet Discovers Missing X-Rays & Medical Records

Yesterday we heard from Janet Lynn Mitchell as she discovered her surgeons had lied to her for 15 years about a medical error they had made which had then caused multiple surgeries.Today she shares about taking the next step–digging deeper to find out just what did happen during her first surgery and the years following.
Janet [...]

Our Stories – Can Stones Be Brought Back to Life?

By Barbara Blume
In Nehemiah 4:2 it asks, “Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble–burned as they are?” Have you ever felt like a heap of rubble?
This week I felt like that more than I can recall feeling in a long while. Rubble – Dictionary definition: A loose mass [...]

Our Stories – Are Deeper Than They Look

By Angela Arnold Posey
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” (Proverbs 17:22 KJV)
I love my husband. He can still make me laugh after 23 years together. Yesterday, I grew a new love bud because of the laughter he caused in me, again. My cheeks are sore this [...]

Our Stories – Don’t Want to Lose My Parents

By Virginia D.
I am going to share with you about my mom, she has recently been diagnosed with a brain disease. It is a long name in the medical field, but basically it is hardening of the arteries in the brain. Part of her brain is already dead on the left side so she doesn’t [...]

Our Stories – I Can Do All Things Through Christ

Since I have no working memory now, I’m not sure if I’ve already done this, but will try anyway since you are such wonderful servants of the Lord.
It started when I began to have seizures in 1999 and was misdiagnosed at this lousy local hospital where I was a counselor 25 years. The third time [...]

Don’t Forget to Pray For Specifics. . . God Just May Answer!

By Ramona Bracker
Living with chronic illness is isolating. In my case I have an intense sensitivity to fluorescent lights, computer screens and noise.  So most of the time I keep my environment quiet and in natural light.  My maximum computer time is about an hour.  Any more than that and I pay a price.  Don’t [...]

Our Stories – The Least Desirables Can Minister The Greatest

By Lynn ReidI was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the summer of 1985, although I had already experienced some daunting symptoms in the years previous. My balance proved to be faltering during a Frances Schaeffer Christian School Conference in the early 80’s. When we were asked to bow our heads and pray, I commenced to [...]

My Damascus Road

By Diane Buckness

It was 38 years ago today
The day started out beautifully
Lovely warm spring weather…
Following a two month stay in Mayberry-esque Vinita, Oklahoma
Two young women from California, friends since childhood
Traveling around the country working odd jobs and moving on
Time to hit the road again…destination: New Orleans
Beer
Enthralled with all the hedonistic pleasures birthed by the [...]

Our Stories – I Know I am in the Right Place Now

This is part of our new category called “Share Your Story”
I am fifty-two years old, married with a grown son who lives at home, and a very neurotic nine-year-old cat. I have struggled with anxiety and depression since my early teens years, going years without medication, trying to prove I didn’t need it. Finally, a [...]

When It is Tempting to Quit We Need Jesus More Than Ever

I was using a saltshaker when I first noticed that the right side of my body was staging a mutiny. Inexplicably, my hand had forgotten how to move up and down. Other everyday activities became difficult. Brushing my teeth was a challenge. Playing piano was impossible and typing was clumsy. And then there were these [...]

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