Lyndsey Medford is a writer and speaker living with a rare autoimmune disorder in the crumbling empire of the American South. Today, Lyndsey shares what her disorder was like as a child, the pressure she felt to make her story a redemptive one, and the kind response of the Lord who only wanted to be with her. We talk about how to develop a holistic view of yourself and the spiritual implications of doing so. Learning to listen to God, to our bodies, and to one another is a crucial discipline for the spiritual journey. Lyndsey reminds us that doing so means letting go of expectations and learning to simply be with God.
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Great quotes from Lindsey:
I did have a strong sense of having a relationship with God and being loved by God and that didn’t depend on being good at suffering or hiding my suffering in the ways I though it did at the time.
To turn [suffering] into a nice pretty story while it’s still happening is an unfair pressure we put on people.
I’ve been told all my life that there’s things you have for me to do. So when are we going to do them?
When we are really still, God is inviting us to let of some of the expectations about ourselves that no longer serve us.
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