Gracefully Overcoming

Tag: In Christ

  • Five Minute Friday – Find

    Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Minute Friday! This week’s theme is “find”. To learn more about Five Minute Friday, please visit Kate’s blog for more details… Each week, a community of bloggers come together with the common goal is to spend five unedited minutes to write on a topic. Finding something can mean a […]

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  • Complaining in Trials – Part One

    Trials on a Tuesday is a weekly series that focuses on a topic relating to trials, and how we can glorify God in the midst of hard times. Trials, have a tendency to cause a reaction of complaining in us. For most of us, this is true. So, we have to work toward protecting ourselves from […]

  • The Outcast: A Man with an Identity

    My patient friends, Here is “The Outcast” post that was meant to go out last Sunday. I hope you will be blessed by it. The link for the devotion is below. “When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the […]

  • Mindful of Christ

    I suffer from a facial disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia. I wanted to write a little bit about that, and today’s struggle I faced while at church. “Taking” about chronic illness can make others skittish, and I understand. Chronic illness is quite honestly very scary. Even as an outsider, it is scary. One of the reasons […]

  • Identity

    Being chronically ill, I am constantly reminded of what I am not: I am not able to do very many things.  I get easily tired. Even too physically weak to move. Difficulty standing. Can’t think straight at times. Get overloaded easily. Get discouraged. I get my hopes up that someday I will discover what actually […]