Healthy people sometimes look at someone with chronic illness and think:
“You didn’t even do anything today.
Why are you so exhausted?”
Because you’re measuring activity.
We’re measuring cost.
Imagine waking up every morning with $100 worth of energy.
A shower costs you $3.
Getting dressed costs $2.
Driving somewhere costs $5.
You barely notice the withdrawals because there’s plenty in the account.
Now imagine waking up with $20.
The shower still costs $3.
Getting dressed still costs $2.
The drive still costs $5.
Except now, before lunch, half your account is gone.
That’s chronic illness.
We’re not lazy.
We’re budgeting.
Sometimes we skip the shower because we need those $3 to make dinner.
Sometimes we cancel plans because we’ve already spent tomorrow’s money.
Sometimes you see us sitting perfectly still and assume we’re doing nothing.
No.
We’re trying not to go into overdraft.
And the cruelest part?
People with $100 in the bank keep giving financial advice to people trying to survive on $20.
You cannot judge someone’s spending when you have no idea what their balance was when they woke up.
"One evening, I went very unwillingly to a society on Aldersgate Street. While Luther’s preface to Romans was read, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
I trusted in Christ alone for salvation, and received assurance that He had taken away my sins, even mine."
- John Wesley (1738)
There are roughly 4,300 religions in the world
Everyone thinks theirs is right
Why?
Do all airplanes lead to the same airport?
But if your goal is to get to a specific airport, you must be on the right plane ✈️
Jesus is different than all 4,299 religions - He loves you
I rarely ask for repost but if you could share this….heartbreaking they are asking for help and can’t even get a response
@SarahHuckabee
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, I am sitting at Arkansas Children’s Hospital with my 2-year-old son, Turner, and I can literally see the State Capitol from his hospital window. We will be here until Sunday at the earliest, and possibly longer if things do not go the way we hope. His doctors are telling us that even when Turner is stable enough to leave the hospital, he needs significant support to keep him safe at home. That support is available through Arkansas’s CES Waiver, but Turner cannot access it because he is sitting on the waiting list.
I have tried countless times to set up a meeting with you and have been turned down every time. So this time, I am asking you to come to us. Please come visit Turner and me at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Come see for yourself how sick he is. Let me tell you what it is like to have a 2-year-old with a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease and severe epilepsy, and what it is like to be told that your child needs more support to safely live at home while also being told that the state support meant for children like him is unavailable because of a waiting list.
Let me tell you what this is doing to our family too. I am missing work right now because my child is hospitalized. I miss work for appointments, hospital stays, seizures, therapies, illnesses, and all of the things that come with raising a medically complex child. I am exactly where I need to be, beside my son, but families cannot keep being expected to absorb lost income while also being denied the very supports that could help keep their children safe at home.
Governor Sanders, I am not asking you to read another report about the CES Waiver waitlist. I am asking you to come meet one of the children sitting on it. Turner is an Arkansas child, and he needs help now, not years from now. Please come see him, sit with us for a few minutes, and let me tell you what his doctors are saying he needs when he goes home. I want you to see for yourself what this waiting list actually looks like for a family living it.
For…Paige Kordsmeier McCammon
Let's not forget the 13 troops killed 5 years ago today at Abbey Gate in the Kabul airport attack, one example of failure by the last administration in Afghanistan. They were all heroes who gave their lives for our freedom and way of life.
@NSamantha2024 God isn't wasting time. You have an amazing testimony & love to share. I'm being reminded of Cross and the Switchblade with the neighborhood you're describing. I have walked many of these streets. I used to do a lot of street ministry many years ago. You got this too.
@NSamantha2024 I'm so sorry you are going thru this. We are all here for you! We are fighting with you in the spirit realm as we pray without ceasing! You are precious to us and we love you dearly! 🙏🕊❤️🫂
Not only are TPS Haitians getting mortgages, so are H-1B visa holders....no American credit required.
Another case where the system favors foreigners
Another case of Americans last
Anti-opioid zealots love to declare:
“No one needs that much pain medication.”
Interesting.
I don’t remember seeing them in the exam room.
I don’t remember them reading the MRI.
I don’t remember them studying the surgical history, the failed procedures, the nerve damage, the degenerative changes, the medication trials, the allergic reactions, or the years of documented pain.
I don’t remember them watching someone crawl to the bathroom because standing was too painful.
I don’t remember them seeing the nights spent awake, shaking, crying, bargaining with God for one hour of relief.
I don’t remember them living inside the body.
But give someone a podcast, a slogan, and an internet connection, and suddenly they believe they are qualified to overrule physicians, condemn patients they have never met, and decide how much suffering another human being should be forced to endure.
They call it “safety.”
The patient calls it being abandoned.
They call it “reducing harm.”
The patient loses sleep, mobility, independence, dignity, and sometimes the will to keep fighting.
Pain medicine should be prescribed carefully.
Patients should be monitored.
Risk should be taken seriously.
But there is nothing careful, compassionate, or medically ethical about treating every chronic pain patient like a criminal and every physician like a drug dealer.
Medicine should be practiced by clinicians who know the patient.
Not politicians.
Not insurance companies.
Not activists intoxicated by their own moral superiority.
And certainly not an online mob that has never spent a single night trapped inside unrelenting pain.