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Saturday was a special treat for me as I was able to spend the day with Jo and Lydia - two of my friends from REHAB. Jo drove me out…

This week a friend posted on Facebook a meme that said, "I feel like I'm already tired tomorrow." I relate to this sentiment on a painfully deep level. I remember…

I'm a big fan of Jesus. (That should be obvious by now.) There's this story recorded in the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a paralyzed man. It blew my…

Yesterday in many liturgical services across the globe, Christians celebrated the day Jesus was first brought into the temple. When the chaplain spoke about it at my church yesterday, he…

Many people have heard the story of my sixteenth birthday when I had the audacity to invite my entire high school student body (of 150 students) to my house for…

"The saying is trustworthy, for 'if we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him,…

Stories compel me to do strange things. When I read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s disturbingly descriptive novel in college, I went on a heat fast. The book follows the protagonist through a…

I don't have the same New Year miracle like I did last year, but in some ways, I think this New Year's day was even better than last when I…

I've got a long way to go in my recovery, but I've come an incredible distance. I had a beautiful reminder of that last night as I celebrated Second Christmas…

I've started this post three times already, but I'm not really sure what to focus on since so much has happened in the last week. Wednesday I successfully finished classes…

Once upon a time, my mom asked me, "Guess what?" I responded, "It's almost Christmas." I'm pretty sure this began in July. Now, whenever I'm asked that question, my response…

Around 200 years ago, people were dying of "wurstgift" in Germany - sausage poisoning - without really understanding why. Don't you just love the German language? It really was the…

Thanksgiving is a very North American holiday. The BFA community celebrates it for a month - first Canadian Thanksgiving, a couple weeks later dorm Thanksgiving, and this past week was…

I had an idea of what I was going to write about yesterday, but everything changed the minute I looked at my Facebook today. I first saw a notification that…

Sometimes I worry that people are getting tired of my recovery story, but then I have the kind of outpouring of positive responses like last week that remind me there…

Urology is the branch of medicine that deals with the urinary system. With that information, you may now make an educated decision about whether or not you want to read…

I forgot to write a post this weekend; I have no excuse. I try to have some measure of routine in my weeks where I remember to give an update…

I'm late writing this week's update because I spent a lot of time learning about volunteering with refugees and then helping friends lead a church service for refugees living nearby.…

I love to laugh. I understand suffering. Those are both parts of who I am, and sometimes conversations with the people I'm closest to span both ends of that spectrum…