Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning The Journey Toward Hope In Chronic Illness Quotes

And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?

Could our plodding, our daily persevering through a life we didn't expect, don't want and didn't choose, actually bring blessing?