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“My grace is sufficient”: praising God in the face of chronic back pain

By: katelynskyebennett 2017-02-172017-02-17

faithalternative medicine, back pain, chiropractor, chronic pain, college, God, joy, pain, suffering9 Comments

“You’re too young to be in pain like this,” they tell me. I shrug and grin sadly. It doesn’t change that I have had chronic back and neck pain for the past six or seven years. I’m only 21. In high school I went to the chiropractor about once a year for back pain. I…

Mu Kappa: a taste of Heaven

By: katelynskyebennett 2015-07-292015-11-14

culture, faithBody of Christ, community, fufu, global church, Heaven, joy, laughter, Mu Kappa, overseas, prayer, TCK, third culture kids, welcoming, West Africa1 Comment

We sat around the pot of fufu, a handful of sisters. First we wet our fingers in our bowls of homemade peanut soup. Then, protected from sticky base we were about to share, we reached into the communal pot to tear off a piece of the doughy circle of boiled flour. Next we dipped the…

Why Today Is the Greatest Day of My Life: Celebrating Faith

Today is the anniversary of the most life-changing day I’ve lived, and I hope you’ll allow me to tell you about it. Gather around, dear friends. Make yourselves comfortable, and brace yourselves for my testimony. Fourteen years ago I was preparing to enter Kindergarten. I was a short, curly haired thing much like I am…

A Story of Healing

By: katelynskyebennett 2014-03-202016-09-23

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Dear readers, I need to tell you a story of God’s healing. It is not a new story, for it happened last semester, but I want to share it with you so that God can be glorified by more people than just my immediate friends who knew about it when it occurred. In the fall,…