Dear Readers,

While this is not something I usually post about, I feel that it is important to help our brothers and sisters in need.  And this is an important need!

So as we celebrate unconditional, Christ-like love, let's put it into action.

​It’s that time of year again…hearts, flowers, roses, chocolate, and the color red.  You see it everywhere—grocery aisles, department store décor, radio and TV advertising, and colorful billboards.  All declaring in loud, blaring obviousness that Valentine’s Day is here once again!  

​Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations.  So reads the title of the book, the start of a Rebelution.  It’s challenging.  It’s exciting.  It’s world changing.  But for some of us, it’s not reality.  For some of us, doing hard things doesn’t always mean rebelling against low expectations but rather merely meeting them. 
 
Now before you stop reading in aghast, let me explain.  I agree that we are all called to do hard things.  However, for some of us, those hard things are not necessarily big things.  In fact, they might be ordinary, mundane, supposedly “normal” things, but they’re hard for us.  Now the “us” I’m referring to is not the typical, everyday teenager or young person, but the one navigating physical affliction and suffering whether it be cancer, Lyme’s disease, juvenile arthritis, autoimmune disease, or any other chronic illness.  Can you relate?