Thomas Watts

Recently, I was gifted a book titled When Your World Falls Apart by the encouragement team at Shades Mountain Baptist Church. Now, since the beginning of my diagnosis, I have received a numerous amount of books on how to get through the pain and navigate life when a bump is put in your road, and sadly I haven’t been able to read them all. I think I have been gifted around twenty or so books, so I it will take me a while to get through them all. But this one book in particular is by a man named Dr. David Jeremiah, and the way he started this book out in the first chapter completely caught me off guard. He started it with a poem. It read as follows:             “ Sometimes we come to life’s crossroads             And we view what we think is the end.             But God has a much wider vision             And He knows that it’s only a bend— The road will go on and get smoother And after we’ve stopped for a rest, The path that lies hidden beyond us Is often th

Everything right now seems overwhelming. With maintaining grades to social life activities to involvement in church to chemo, sometimes I want to crawl up in a ball in my bed and go to sleep. I don’t want to face the world on those types of days. I cannot seem to shake off whatever hinders me from my full potential. On these days, relief is scarce. Almost nonexistent if you will. Truthfully, the only person I need relief from is myself. My life is different now and I have a hard time understanding and grasping that concept. I have unordinary things going on in my life and trying to live how I used to live won’t cut it anymore. I have to adapt daily to get by, and sometimes I give myself too much. I listen to myself too much and that’s a problem because there is a difference between listening to yourself and talking to yourself. We must talk to ourselves instead of letting ourselves to talk to us. If we allow ourselves to talk to us, what things do you think we will h