Sarah P. Jose
September 14, 2024
In my last blog entry, I introduced the idea of learning to change my relationship with my pain. The first baby step came when I learned […]
July 29, 2024
"I would do anything to change my pain!" Maybe you have thought this too.
June 23, 2024
Self-pity overwhelmed my mind as I walked a quarter mile to the Brew’s Tavern. Yes, I could walk. Praise God for that. But a quarter mile was nothing to my athletic college friends.
Forging a new identity, apart from the “Miracle Girl” label, which was stuck on me in high school, proved to be more difficult than I anticipated.
June 4, 2024
I don’t like waiting. I like to get on with things, make them happen. So, when I find myself repeatably in a place where I have no control over events and must just wait, I struggle…
May 14, 2024
I appreciate your kind responses to my “War-Torn Women” Visio Divina exercise. So many of us can relate on different levels to the need to lament. In this next post, I use the same images to help illustrate what God has taught me about the profound beauty of learning the art of stillness...
April 29, 2024
As I painted the following image, I understood a definite progression of form and thought. So often I have lamented for women around the world who […]
March 26, 2024
Well, I guess I’m outcome independent now.
Not sure how I feel about that.
In his book, The Way Out, Alan Gordon promotes the ideal of becoming outcome independent (not emotionally attached to any specific outcome) in our attitude toward our pain.
February 15, 2024
Former addicts understand how to celebrate small victories. People in physical rehabilitation understand how a movement so small and natural to some can represent weeks of hard and painful work when recovering from major injuries. Today’s story is about a very small thing that is very big.
February 9, 2024
Coming to the right side of my drawing, and the final leg of my own yellow brick road, I drew one last emotion.