Tag: disability
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How God’s Sovereignty Conquers Anxiety
Traveling: Doing Hard Things-Part II Read Time: 7 minutes by AJ Canterbury My loneliest years followed the death of my mother to cancer. To compound the emotional loss of the core of my family, I moved from Pennsylvania to Minnesota where I had no ties. I went through the first year disconnected from the world…
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What I Would’ve Missed If Disability Kept Me Home
Traveling: Doing Hard Things-Part 1 Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury I’ve called many places “home” over the course of my four decades, but Pennsylvania houses my roots. It isn’t where I was born or even the first state I lived in, but it is the place I completed all my primary education, the…
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Did God Give Disability to Humble Me?
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury During my final semester in college, I was taking a senior seminar psychology class. Our major project was to co-present a paper for a research competition. Most of our class periods were spent pouring over research articles to fit into our final projects. Our small…
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When God Showed Me Healing Wasn’t Best
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash Read Time: 6 minutes by AJ Canterbury An end to suffering drives us. When we encounter pain, we immediately crane our necks in search of the fire escape. No one is (nor should be) a fan of physical suffering because personal suffering hurts and it’s uncomfortable and feels unnatural. At least I…
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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…