Life With Jesus is Better
Revisiting the last few years of my life with you over the last few months has been rewarding and therapeutic for me on a number of levels. One such reward is that I now have a deeper understand Paul's message surrounding suffering. Now before you @ me on this, I understand completely that Paul's suffering …
On days like today I must take a moment and fast forward my story to the events of the last few days. One reason is very selfish. It is therapeutic for me to be open about my inner workings. By vocalizing the mental and physical struggles to others it robs them of their power to …
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One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw …
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 It has been amazing to see how God has used our story both while I was at the NIH and after. He …
This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37:5 Breathing treatments are the worst. Every night I would have two different treatments in order to open my lungs to life-giving oxygen. One was just regular albuterol, the other was a …
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 Getting my new cells was just the beginning of a one-hundred day process that …
We were hopeful that the new medicine regimen would cause the infection in my spine to subside. We were hopeful that the new regimen for pain management would result in my increased functioning. It did not. Over the next 4 months my condition would continue to deteriorate. I would routinely be struck with waves of …
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you. The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Psalm 139:16 MSG After three months of continued pain in my back and weakness in my legs, the doctors …
Jeremy Powell 