New ways to encourage your friends
How do you encourage someone who is sick? That’s challenging enough, but what about someone with a chronic illness? What about someone that is sick over and over, or even every day? Running out of ideas? This might be the book for you.
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Lisa Copen lives with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, diseases that are debilitating and yet invisible. She began an organization known as Rest Ministries, a Christian support to those with chronic illness. So she knows what it’s like to need encouragement, and also to encourage others.
Lisa Copen has written a book that might be a help if you’re looking for new ways to help someone with chronic illness. It’s called, Beyond Casseroles: 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend
This book is written from a Christian perspective, but most of these ideas will work well for anyone. At under US$5, it’s reasonably priced. It seems that helping someone else often makes us feel better. And who knows? If this book is on your shelf, maybe someone will think to try some of the ideas on you too.
9 October 2006 @ 10:43 am
These pictures were taken by my daughter, then 13, after I’d had another unsuccessful nerve block. Not much has changed in the last year since they were taken; although, my room is now a more tranquil color, with chocolate leather curtains, that I am able to use to block out any offending light!! The hand is almost always present on my face, is it on yours too?
12 October 2006 @ 7:57 am
Thanks for sharing, Deborah. I think if an attack is bad enough I wouldn’t be able to stand a hand on my face very long – more likely my eye pillow.
Sounds like you have a good decor though – anything to block out or dull the light sounds great! I’m travelling right now and I’m in a room with no blinds at all, so hopefully I stay healthy. 🙂