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Too Young

03/07/202503/07/2025 Steph Penny 2 Comments Surviving Chronic Illness

‘You’re too young to have arthritis!’ the doctor remarked. I took a breath before responding. Age amongst the chronically ill can be a sensitive topic, and many young people with chronic pain and disease experience minimising and dismissal from doctors on account of their youth. This, naturally, is not OK—yet many doctors still comment on […]

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Survival Skills: Scriptures for Illness

29/05/202529/05/2025 Steph Penny Leave a comment Surviving Chronic Illness

‘Doubled up with pain, I call to God All the day long. No answer. Nothing. I keep at it all night, tossing and turning… I’m a bucket kicked over and spilled, Every joint in my body has been pulled apart. My heart is a blob Of melted wax in my gut. I’m dry as a […]

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I’m Childless—And Unashamed 

17/11/202317/11/2023 Steph Penny 2 Comments Survivng Childlessness

There seems to be a lot of social media shaming childless people at present.  They mock us for ageing alone.  They point out how selfish we are.  They bemoan the future of the Church, saying its decline is imminent without procreating couples—as though the Church were on the fragile precipice of implosion and childless people […]

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God’s Plan?

21/10/202221/10/2022 Steph Penny 2 Comments Survivng Childlessness

I don’t know why so many people say the grief of childlessness is ‘God’s plan’. To be fair, when Christians say devastating events are ‘God’s plan’, I don’t think they mean God is a sadistic old so-and-so who is detached from our suffering and rather enjoys inflicting pain.  (At least, I hope not.) Nor do I […]

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    • Lazy (in Moderation) 10/07/2025
    • Too Young 03/07/2025
    • Join the (Childless) Club 26/06/2025
    • Myths of Singledom 19/06/2025
    • Survival Skills: Grace in the Flames 12/06/2025
    • Survival Skills: It’s Not Fair! 05/06/2025
    • Survival Skills: Scriptures for Illness 29/05/2025
    • Prayer of a Disfigured Christian 18/04/2025
    • Survival Skills: The God Who Allows Pain 11/04/2025
    • Survival Skills: Beauty and Breath 28/03/2025
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