Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 35
There's a question I'm sure most people who live with chronic illness know all too well: what's the price I will pay for this? I've been counting the cost this week, paying for every [...]
There's a question I'm sure most people who live with chronic illness know all too well: what's the price I will pay for this? I've been counting the cost this week, paying for every [...]
on Jer 1:4–10 and Luke 13:10–17, for Wesley Uniting Church Canberra, 25 August 2019 My, but we can get in God’s way, can’t we? ‘Not today, God, there are rules we cannot break.’ ‘Not [...]
In which, ten days after I had started to emerge from the virus, I may actually, almost, be free. The sinus congestion had seemed to signal the turning of the virus, like [...]
It was a fog, thickly white, suffocating. It was an anvil or grand piano falling suddenly, heavily, from a snapped rope. It was a prison door closing out the light, the freedom. It was [...]
Sniffles, and a cotton wool head. Overwhelming desire to lie down and close my eyes. Muscles stiff, sore; limbs heavy. It is the season, so perhaps this is a virus? The days [...]
In recent Diary entries, I have moved from sorrow at what I was losing to the chronic fatigue, through taking significant steps forward into greater wellbeing, even while sometimes seemingly stepping momentarily backwards. In [...]
Less than a week after I reflected on some good energy, healthy practices and rhythms, and an apparent turning of a corner towards wellness, I was overcome with tiredness and slept a whole afternoon [...]
In which I appear to have taken further strides towards living well with chronic illness. I finished the stroke, stepped onto the step, and smiled, from deep within: I feel amazing. This [...]
The Stories: Acts 16:16-34 and John 17:20-26 I want to begin with the story in Acts; the first part of the story, which we often skip over for the sensational miracle in the jail [...]
Public speaking, performance, oral storytelling. This is my craft. I am good enough at it that others will listen to me and learn from me in order to develop their own skills and techniques. [...]
Living with chronic illness seems to me, today, to be like having automatic additives mixed in with every experience. By my calculations, I have three additives that compound the normal tiredness that [...]
Two Lent reflections in one week, after three weeks of not writing the reflections I had intended, when Lent began. Such is Lenten practice with Chronic Exhaustion. Yesterday I wrote about the [...]