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Thankful for My Disabled Body: How Chronic Illness Shifted My Perspective

Shifting perspective: embracing a disabled body with gratitude.

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Ashley Hope
Apr 06, 2025
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Do I blame God for my disabled body?

If you would have asked me this at the beginning of 2023 I probably would have said yes. But now, 2 and a half years since the onset of the severe chronic illnesses that has made me disabled, I’d say no.

Why? Because I know that God is good. Period. The reason why we have pain and suffering in this life (illness includ…

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