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Chronic Illness and Pain: With What Music?
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mpratt
Soon, the air will be filled with Christmas and other holiday music! As someone who loves to sing and enjoy music, these coming weeks will be especially melodious. But even with the joy of music, I know that sometimes an uplifting tune might not exactly fit in with the experience of chronic illness and pain,…
The Best Easter Ever Is Today
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mpratt
Oh, no, you might be thinking. Isn’t she a week or so off? Didn’t Easter already happen? Is she calendar-challenged? Not at all! I know that April 20 was Easter Sunday. But the best Easter is today. And tomorrow. And the next day. The best Easter happens everyday when we remember that Jesus, God’s only Son,…
Chronic Pain: Good Friday and The Longest Walk
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mpratt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Equ0RIiulOA There is a gospel song that resonates through my spirit on Good Friday. Simply named, “Calvary,” (I’ve linked one version of it that I found on YouTube, sung by Jami Jackson at the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn) a traditional, African-American spiritual, is a very slow, almost plodding, and sorrow-filled testimony to how painful and…
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