A woman suffers debilitating physical problems and spends many years finding the answer. She discovers her greatest help isn’t from medicine but from the Great Physician.
Category: Physical Health
The Most Challenging Race
A runner learns to trust God when the bottom falls out of her world. by Christina Rose as told to Donna L. Morse I felt the pull, then the pain. It immediately slowed my pace. I’d never had an injury in all my high school years of cross-country running. Far from home in new surroundings,…
A Monster Unmasked
Learning to hold on to God when faith lets go. by Stacey Philpot To a thirty-one-year-old newlywed who ran three miles most days and regularly worked with a personal trainer, stairs were not supposed to be insurmountable. Yet here we stood — all of my 29 sixth grade students and me, eyes fixed upon…
Hymn of Healing
Old words bring new life. by Carolyn Appleyard as told to Dan Lewis Campbell I knew the drill; I’d been down this road before. The room number was different, but when I closed my eyes, it was the same: the sounds, the smells — hospital smells — the feel of sterile sheets enfolding me…
Taking the Plunge
What grit, determination, and radical faith can do. by Angie Davis-Beyer as told to Karen Foster My lips trembled as I stared into the deep end of the indoor swimming pool. It was inches from my face; I could smell the chlorinated water. But when the dive master asked me to lower my head…
A Change in Plans
In sickness and in health. . . . by Brenda Blanchard “Right, two, three, four; left, two, three, four,” the step aerobics instructor counted. “Keep those hands moving in unison with your feet.” The feeling of pins and needles started in my fingers, traveled to my hands, then on up to the elbows. I…
A Faith Healer Nearly Destroyed My Faith
Learning the hard way what God saysabout sickness and health. by Rebecca Schrader as told to Esther M. Bailey Never have I considered myself a gullible person. When I held a top executive position in business, I readily recognized the difference between ethical and fraudulent schemes. Since then, my life has undergone drastic changes….
A New Season
One woman’s battle with HIV. by Kathi Winter The strength and stamina I used to have are diminishing. This may be a result of simply passing the age of 50 or of the numerous pills I have to take daily to keep the HIV virus under control. Often I have to change my short-…
Against the Odds
by Nancy Merical “Have you ever heard of multiple myeloma?” My doctor sat across from me in the examining room, relaxed and smiling. She could have been telling me I’d caught the common cold. Her easy manner relaxed me. I accepted her prognosis with odd composure, as an onlooker. I hadn’t heard of the…
Destination: Unknown
by Donna McDonnall “Mom, my shoulder hurts again,” Danny, our ten-year-old son, announced. Our packed suitcases waited by the door. Crossing things off my “to do” list, I nudged my family closer to the door to leave for our summer vacation in Canada. “Now I can feel a bump there,” Danny added. Concerned by…