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Steph Penny's Writing's title: Steph Penny's Writing – Surviving Chronic Illness, Surviving Childlessness, Surviving Singledom
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What about Faith?
Faith can be a two-edged sword with chronic illness. On the one hand, God’s nearness and companionship have been a great comfort to me. On the other, God has not healed me of lupus. I have wrestled with this. After all, it would be a whole lot easier if God would simply heal me—wouldn’t it?
But he has not. At times I ...
Finding my Tribe
It’s not easy to find support for a rare disease like lupus. But I have a few close friends with autoimmune conditions, and there is nothing quite like the breath of fresh air that is a friend who gets it. When they describe the sensation of brain fog and I say, ‘Oh, thank God—I thought I was the only one,’ it does good to my spirit...
Something was wrong with me. I just knew it. I was in my early twenties, freshly graduated from university and starting work at my first full-time job. Flushed with my own success, I threw myself into work, embracing everything it threw back at me. The world was my oyster.
Except this oyster was woefully sick.
What’s Wrong with Me?
...He came as a baby,
Hungry, needy,
Dependent in every way.
He learned
Under the guiding hands
Of his parents,
Growing into a boy,
Then a man.
The God who created the Universe,
Who carved the sphere of the Earth
With his own two good hands,
Who shaped animals and tr...
‘Be still and know that I am God.’ Psalm 46:10, NIV
Nearly three years ago, I started practising stillness on a regular basis. Inspired by Julia Baird’s luminescent book, Phosphorescence*, and the constant noise inside my own head, I set myself a goal of becoming still at least once a day. It didn’t matter if it was only fleetingly or just before fallin...