Category: disability
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How To Trust God When The Way Is Hard
Habakkuk Series- Pt. 4 Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash Read Time: 5 minutes by AJ Canterbury What a journey it has been as we’ve lingered in the Old Testament book of Habakkuk. We have discovered that the book has much to say when life gets too hard to understand. Habakkuk continues to teach me about trusting God.…
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How To Understand When Suffering Visits The Christian
Habakkuk Series-Pt. 3 Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury There is a biblical difference between discipline and wrath. For the Christian, the correction or the trial or the punishment (whatever term fits the situation) is God’s discipline in their life. It is not for their destruction. I’m sure, after reading my blog posts, you’ve…
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When The God Of The Unexpected Wrecks Your Life
Habakkuk Series-Pt. 2 Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash Read Time: 5 minutes by AJ Cantebury God is mysterious. He doesn’t always act in the ways we expect, or even in ways that strike us as right or fair. His ways, which are not our ways, can be downright terrifying, and we wonder if we really know this God…
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God, When Will You Do Something?
Habakkuk Series-Pt. 1 Read Time: 4 minutes It is often thought that because the Old Testament addresses an ancient culture, it has nothing to say to the contemporary Christian. My Bible study just finished a study on the book of Habakkuk, and the Old Testament again proves that this thought is just not true. With…
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Can Disability Be A Gift?
Read Time: Six minutes September 25 is Ataxia Awareness Day, devoted to educating people and promoting the need to fund research for the Ataxia family of neurological diseases. Did you forget to send my card or flowers in the mail? If you forgot, I will extend you grace for this year. Ever since I became…
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Where To Plant Your Hope In The Midst of Disability
Reading Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury Working as a vocational rehabilitation counselor provided numerous opportunities for me to interact with all different kinds of people who had different kinds of disabilities. What quickly became apparent was how the same diagnosis never produced the same obstacles. The saying around the office was “no one disability…
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What to Do the Day God Is Not Good
Reading Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury “Life is hard; God is good.”. It was the mantra that summed up the last decade of my walk with Jesus. I looked out over the gymnasium filled with church members and people from the community, as I rehearsed my testimony from the youth/green room. My church hosted…
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Lessons From My Mom To Overcome Adversity
Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury Last month, I celebrated my mom’s birthday, and because she left this world on the same day she entered it, the day also marked 22 years without her voice. Although I’m now in my 40s, the need for my mother’s guidance never goes away. The passing of that…
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