Hungering for personal growth?

Struggling with a chronic illness?

Searching for a dynamic study?

 Book orders before August 15st receive 15% discount and author’s autograph: jonnie@jonniewright.com

No matter how healthy or unhealthy we are at this moment, we know that just around the proverbial corner change crouches ready to pounce. And with any change comes unavoidable choices. As we assess our past, present, and future choices, we experience personal growth. When we apply God’s Scriptures to our daily situations and behaviors, we experience spiritual transformation. If we live our lives with knee-jerk reactions to our circumstances, the significance of our relationship with God diminishes through neglect. On the other hand, if we search for God’s truths, even while suffering constant pain, our spiritual choices become our lifeline. 

About the Author

While teaching elementary school for thirty years, author Jonnie Wright wrote innovative curriculum for both children and adults. She contributed to a national teachers’ magazine, received a grant in computer literature, and authored the Christian teachers’ workbook: Lord, What Do I Do With Sammy? Her daily struggles with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Irritable Bowel, Irritable Bladder, TMJ, and Burning Mouth Syndrome have led her to create the personal growth series: God’s Rx for Chronic Pain.Book One, The Silver Bullet ©2006, focuses on Jesus Christ being God’s prescription for the difficulties of chronic illness. Mrs. Wright provides supportive material for Bible study groups, called Good Tidings for Chronic Pain, across the U.S. She is retired and living in Rocklin, CA with her cat, Chatty.

Book orders before August 15st receive 15% discount and author’s autograph: jonnie@jonniewright.com

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For the next couple of weeks, I will be sharing with you material from my soon-to-be-published book, Choices: Managing Chronic Pain. It has become quite clear to me that we Christians with chronic illnesses need the spiritual power to overcome the dailyness of pain.

I hope this book will encourage you to become involved with other chronic pain sufferers so that, together, you will be empowered to use God’s Biblical words in stressful situations.  Support groups offer inspiration, boost endorphins, and provide empathy. “Good Tidings for Chronic Pain” is just such a network of believers, and  provides materials for anyone searching to enrich their lives by reaching out to others in pain.

INTRODUCTION to Choices: Managing Chronic Pain
Change is as inevitable as death and taxes. Our choices reflect the inescapability of change. Chronic illness threatens our life-style, adds financial burdens, stresses our relationships, and interrupts our life. Often our choices alter our physical and emotional state so much that, in time, we become strangers to our former selves. And yet, we want to live as victors, not victims.

Thankfully, the Bible is more than just a first aid book for spiritual boo-boos. Through Scripture, we learn of the promised, unfathomable riches of God’s love, mercy and justice. We are inspired by the stories of men and women who failed as often as they succeeded, but whose faithfulness was rewarded. Because the Bible is the inerrant word of God, Scripture can help us through our struggles and difficult choices. But, do we allot enough time in Scripture study to realign our perspective with God’s will?

The good news is that we do not need to be Biblical scholars to discover the truths found in Scripture. Choices: Managing Chronic Pain offers short studies, minimum writing, and maximum application. The simplicity of the Choices format encourages we who are in chronic pain to consider whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—[to] think about such things (Phil. 4:8).

See Choices: Managing Chronic Pain in the “Pages” column to the left for sample lesson.

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