Steadfast In Trial: A Blog For Weathering Life’s Storms

Normal, such an interesting word and so relative. Who gets to decide that? In our society, that word is getting to be increasingly difficult to define. It’s taboo to even suggest that you might be living outside of normal.

Someone once told me that happiness is like a bubble. You try to catch it, if even for an instance. Unfortunately, the moment your hand reaches its destination, the bubble bursts. In other words, happiness is an illusion. We spend our whole lives trying to attain it, only to realize that it is impossible to…

When you enter a life situation that rips away your independence,  you learn real fast that you need a strong support network.  Whether it’s family, friends, or acquaintances, you need them all. Your life may literally depend on the care provided by the people around you, so you need to recognize that those people are…

I remember one day laying in the hospital and thinking to myself “all I want to do is have a normal life”. I wanted to get out of bed and walk around, I wanted to go the bathroom in privacy like a normal person, and I desperately wanted to take a hot shower. For that matter, just being able…