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  • Dekker,  Life Challenges

    Illness Through a Dog’s Eyes

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    dekker sleepinig, during illness

    What Love Looks Like When Healing Is Slow Woof woof, friends,Something shifted in the house a couple of weeks ago—before anyone said a word.Illness has a way of…

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    Ardis Mayo
  • Life Challenges

    Illness as a Spiritual Practice

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    Doctor with crossed arms delivering a difficult diagnosis; illness

    Illness  as a spiritual practice? I would rather not think so... I’ve written a number of reflections over the years about spiritual practice as it appears in daily…

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    Ardis Mayo
  • Aging,  Life Challenges

    Spiritual Reflections on Illness and Aging

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    aging and illness, aging gracefully

    After avoiding the illness that changed the world, I finally experienced firsthand the effects of COVID-19 in my own body. Following are reflections on the gifts of that…

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  • Life Challenges

    Why I Will Not Fight Illness

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    old lady who can claim agency lifting her hand to say stop, saying no

    Long ago, I decided not to fight illness anymore. I have more adventurous things to do that don’t leave much time or energy for fighting a battle. One…

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