rebelling against low expectations

AuthorEmily

has two close family members who struggle with chronic illness, and there’s not much she can do except watch. And blog. She writes a lot about what it means to support them while clinging onto God. In between she runs along the river near her house, works at a hospital, writes fiction and day dreams far too much. She prays that what she writes would encourage other people in similar situations.

When You Love Someone With a Chronic Illness

By Emily

September 20, 2017

4 Min read

When someone we love receives a chronic illness diagnosis, it is easy to feel helpless. It doesn’t matter if they are our younger brother, our mother, or our best friend. We can still feel like we are too young to help them. For most of us chronic illness is huge and scary and unknown. What can we possibly do? Yet you don’t have to be a certain age to love someone. Love is about relationships...

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