Category: Illness

Team~Five Minute Friday

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Aug 19, 2016 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Grace, Illness, Marriage, Spiritual Encouragment | 14 |

It’s Friday, time to join with Kate Motaung and others, writing for five minutes on a one word prompt. The prompts stretch me and I never seem to know where the words will take me. Today is no different. Our one...

Looking Back…

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Apr 14, 2016 | Encouragement, Faith, Grace, Illness, Running, Spiritual Encouragment | 6 |

“My morning runs have become my best prayer time with God. There’s something about putting one foot in front of the other~and survival~that lends an exhaustive focus on God.” Tammy Mashburn~The Purge Run The...

Rising Up~Answering the Call

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Feb 29, 2016 | Community, Connection, Disciple Making, Encouragement, Faith, Illness | 7 |

~Rising Up~ “Now go and write down these words. Write them in a book. They will stand until the end of time as a witness.” Isaiah 30:8~NLT Pink rises to touch the tips of the tall loblolly pines. Soon the sun will...

Making the Most of It

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Feb 16, 2016 | Celebrating the Small, Devotions, Encouragement, Faith, Hope, Illness, Legacies | 11 |

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Psalm 71:18~ESV I sit in my chair, gazing out the window. Fog, thick as pea soup,...

Embraced

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Feb 10, 2016 | Chronic illness, Community, Encouragement, Faith, Grace, Illness, Intentional Relationships | 6 |

“If you question who would surround you during suffering but don’t know the answer, now is the time to begin growing those friendships.Facing the hardship together is so much better than facing it alone.”...

A Familiar Place

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Jan 12, 2016 | Authentic, Brokenness, Devotions, Encouragement, Faith, Illness, Women | 9 |

“Am I overcome by routine, perfunctory prayers, the ordinariness of life, by daily duties done over and over again? I trundle off to the desert to reexamine the direction of my life.” Souvenirs of Solitude ~...

Moving Forward

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Jan 5, 2016 | Brokenness, Chronic illness, Community, Devotions, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Fear, Grace, Illness, Women | 15 |

“Everything in me wants to fight the unveiling of the anxieties that threaten to overwhelm, push them back from showing up in my day. I want to ignore the smoky unknown; it is counter~intuitive to let the anxieties rise up...

Tossing Out~Filling Up

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Dec 30, 2015 | Brokenness, Encouragement, Faith, Fear, Grace, Hope, Illness | 9 |

“I am determined to face each circumstance with a heart wide open. Ready to learn. Ready to Grow.” The Gift of Openness~Angela Nazworth (in) courage Lightening slashes across the morning sky. Thunder rattles the...

These Words, These Pages

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Dec 15, 2015 | Brokenness, Chronic illness, Communion, Devotions, Faith, Fear, Grace, Hope, Illness, Prayer | 5 |

“This is the beginning~my beginning. Maybe even yours. It is the shedding of the first garment on the way to naked. This is an exposition of my process of stripping off the falsities, of coming clean.” Seth...

So I Dance

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Dec 11, 2015 | Brokenness, Chronic illness, Encouragement, Faith, Grace, Illness, Prayer | 5 |

“He is calling me back~back to the essence of faith. And somehow I know the path begins with sitting in the pain of God’s mystery. Sometimes our thorns are not removed.” Coming Clean~Seth Haines It is quiet...

The Dreariest Days

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Nov 10, 2015 | Brokenness, Celebrating the Small, Chronic illness, Devotions, Dysautonomia, Encouragement, Faith, Grace, Illness, Legacies | 13 |

“This journey~my journey, the one I am struggling with so, this soul draining journey, the calling on my life, this making of meals and tending to wounds and continuing on when I am tired and worn out and really...

A New Chapter

by Tammy L. Mashburn | Nov 3, 2015 | Brokenness, Chronic illness, Encouragement, Faith, Grace, Illness, P.O.T.S. | 6 |

“But we are not the Author of our story. We are the characters.” The Hardest Peace by Kara Tippetts October was coming to a close as we sat in the waiting room. Another test. Another doctor’s appointment. My...

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