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Illness: Is God Punishing You?
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mpratt
Early on in my journey with lupus, a Christian said to me, “You’re not cured because you’re not faithful enough.” When I challenged her on this, she said that she though God was punishing me for my “lack of belief!” I’ve never believed that illness in our lives was a punishment from God. He loves…
Lupus Awareness Day – Putting on the Purple
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mpratt
Lent is over. Advent is a long while away. But, today, I’m going to wear purposeful purple! May is Lupus Awareness Month, and today is Lupus Awareness Day, and the color is purple. Purple is a deep color, sometimes mysteriously so, and lupus is the quintessentially mysterious disease – there’s no cure, there are not…
Fatigue and Friends
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mpratt
May is Lupus Awareness Month. For those of us with lupus, it might seem beside-the-point; it’s almost impossible to have lupus and not be aware of it each day, not only in May! I’m not going to go into “what is lupus?” nor am I going to list the statistics of the disease “population,” nor…
Why Centering Prayer Is So Important
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mpratt
If you’re like me, you find that your prayer list gets longer each day. World problems, individual petitions, personal prayers – we skip around this globe quite a lot when we sit down to have our quiet time with God. But if we’re too scattered with our prayers, we might lose sight of the very…
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