The medicine tastes good. It's numbing effect, makes you feel better. The medicine reduces the temporary pain and may even help with local inflammation. The medicine doesn't cure the disease- but it helps to manage the symptoms. Unfortunately, the medicine is very expensive. It has quite a few side effects including being quite addictive. Imagine having a terrible disease- and knowing there was a cure- yet because the cure took time and effort, you settled for taking the medi

Just 3 months ago, I remember praying this prayer: Why do I not feel joy Lord? Why did you call me to a job that I would hate? Where is the blessing and joy in your call to serve you. And why am I a nurse? And I think we all feel that -- at one time or another in our lives-- that maybe God didn't lead us to a fertile valley, but a desolate mountain. That maybe God forgot about our joy? And in this time I had to question Him. Are you really a good loving Father to me? I have a

"And when I lose my way, when I forget my name remind me who I am. In the mirror all I see is who I don't want to be Remind me who I am Tell me once again, who I am to you, that I belong to you" -- Jason Gray Friends, I don't know how your spiritual journey is going. I don't know if you feel super connected right now and are trekking up the mountain and seeing God's hand of miracles. Or I don't know if you've been lying in the valley alone bleeding and crying out "Where are y