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Look at Two Real Life Examples of How To Help Others

Do you know someone who looks healthy yet does not fully participate in life activities? Perhaps he or she suffers from an unseen disability. You have the desire to help and support the chronically ill. You are compassionate, but you are always busy. So, how can you? For Christmas one year, a friend of our […]

How to Love Someone with Chronic Pain

Sallie Belle Howell’s guest post talks about caring for a person living with chronic illness using love, acceptance, communication, and self-care. And she points us to a way to achieve that love. Visit Sallie Belle’s website, Mourning the Pain, for more info. Watching someone you love live with chronic illness can be difficult. At times, […]

Geese Working Together — Excellent Example Helps Invisibly Disabled People

Geese? Teamwork? Say what? Yes, geese use teamwork to improve their quality of life. And that teamwork by the geese provides an example for observers to efficiently help chronically ill people. So we can see how geese teamwork helps invisibly disabled people. I first heard about the way geese cooperate decades ago. Our church’s bulletin […]

Can You Cheer Me Up? I’m Feeling So Down!

How do the chronically ill cope with depression? Well, maybe not full-blown depression. Maybe just down or blah days. Or maybe unusually pain-filled or extra fatigue days. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? And it’s so helpful to have someone to cheer us up. But, on our “good” days, have we worked out a way […]

I Can Help, But How?

How can you help chronically ill friends? News flash: Thoughtful storm observers already spend time helping their dweller friends. Often these caring observers want to assist even more; they just don’t know how. Helping the invisibly disabled can be as simple as a phone call letting them know they are remembered or as involved as […]

Demonstrate Care to The Chronically Ill in Your Church

Do you attend church regularly? Are you more-or-less healthy? Or are you invisibly chronically ill? What do you think about chronic illness and church care? Depending on which, you may have differing views of the compassionate care your church displays. This post deals more with that care and compassion than with specific ideas for helping. […]

My Tribute to Karen Baker: My Friend, My Supportive Observer

We met Karen 19 years ago when Joe and I moved to Gold Beach, OR for Joe to become the new pastor at her church. Thus, began a friendship that lasted all these years. It ended March 31, 2019 when Karen joined Jesus. Although we moved on after two years, we retained our friendship. We […]

Giving Thanks — Me? You Have to Be Kidding!

Is your life rotten right now? Really rotten? Or maybe this is a good patch right now? Did you know if you look hard enough, you can find SOMETHING to be thankful for? I’m going through one of those awful times right now (yes, 2018, too). Well, actually for the last few weeks. Don’t […]

Pull Back the Storm: Comfort Your Friend

When your friend lives in storms, his life is difficult even when he’s successfully navigating them. But, sometimes storms hit harder, and things get tougher. And you can help pull back the storm—with comfort. However, there are wrong and right—and even better—ways to comfort. I remember two days early in my storms when I visited […]

How To Support Your Invisibly Disabled Friend

Out of sight, out of mind. Does that apply to your friend or family member? You know she has a physical problem that prevents her from socializing like she used to. You may even understand his problems. But, do you forget she’s around somewhere just because you don’t see her much? You don’t mean to, […]

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