[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”my proof of disability”] Yesterday I went to the Secretary of State’s office and picked up a handicapped parking placard. It’s incredible how difficult the process can be. Not in terms of complexity, just that both times I have had to get one of these I’ve had to endure lectures fromContinue reading “Feeling Judged”
Category Archives: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
On Suffering, Loss, and Being Okay
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”suffering”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I’m developing a capacity for suffering, for losing people I love, and yet I know deep down that I will be okay. In fact, I know it because of the suffering and loss. I know you’ll be okay too. I want to share with you how I’ve come to know this. AContinue reading “On Suffering, Loss, and Being Okay”
Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] My post idea today comes from a reader, who emailed a heartbreaking note to me. She attached the quote at the top of this post, and wrote: I came across this quote not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks. As a teenager I was sexually abused by [identity clipped] for [lengthContinue reading “Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering”
How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God
Someone struggling with serious health problems wrote to me today and said, “Dave, some of the stuff you’ve faced with your MS is horrific. How in the world do you keep trusting God and believing he loves you?” What a great question. With her permission I have reprinted my answer, below, because I wonder if itContinue reading “How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God”
I Lost You
A song I wrote ten years ago to a lost love – my health, who was out of my life before I had a chance to appreciate her. I have always wanted to post this piece, but it has never seemed right until now. I LOST YOU I lost you, before I knew your nameContinue reading “I Lost You”
You’re Still Here
Words to a song I wrote when home sick with MS for a few weeks in the late 90’s. A much more “Christian” song than the next one I wrote about the disease a few years later. Still, some good thoughts perhaps. YOU’RE STILL HERE Seems those worship songs of yesterday Rarely moved my heartContinue reading “You’re Still Here”
Living with Setbacks
Everybody has setbacks. We all have our cross(es) to bear. No one is exempt. One of the main crosses I bear is multiple sclerosis. As with most crosses people bear, I can’t fix this. There’s nothing I can do to make it very much better. The only thing I can do is decide how IContinue reading “Living with Setbacks”
Temp Arbor 