Whatever You Do Hold On To Hope!

 

“Whatever you do, hold on to hope! The tiniest thread will twist into an unbreakable cord. Let hope anchor you in the possibility that this is NOT the end of your story; that change will bring you to peaceful shores. ~Unknown~

What if Your Blessings Were Raindrops?

What if Your Blessings Were Raindrops? Lyrics by Laura Story, “Blessings”

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace.
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep.
We pray for healing, prosperity.
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering.

All the while, You hear each spoken need.
Your love is too way too much to give us lesser things.

Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?

What if trials of this night, are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear.
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near.
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love.
As if every promise from Your word is not enough.

All, the while, You hear each desperate plea.
And long that we’d have faith to believe.

Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?

What if trials of this night, are Your mercies in disguise?

When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win;
We know that pain reminds this heart, that this is not, this is not our home.
It’s not our home.

Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life;
Is a revealing of greater thirst that a world can’t satisfy?

And what if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights;
Are Your mercies in disguise?

A Future with Disease Modifying Drugs not just Symptom Modifying

A Future With No Pain?

In the words of George Carlin “My Philosphy? No pain, no pain” Those of us living with chronic pain would love to have a “no pain, no pain” kind of a future, but is this possible? According to Dr. Elliot Krane “The future holds the promise that new drugs will be developed that are not symptom modifying drugs, that simply mask the problem as we have now, but there will be disease modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem” attacking issues such as chronic pain.”  WOW! Does this mean that there is there indeed hope for those of us who suffer with chronic pain conditions such as Ankylosing Spondylitis & Fibromyalgia, as well as other chronic pain disease?  There does currently exist (DMARDs) diseases modifying antirheumatic drugs or biologics, but the potential side effects are numerous. The idea of a future with better performing (DMAs) is something that definitely provides food for thought, especially for those of us who choose not to take drugs for our chronic health conditions, simply because they tend to do nothing more than mask symptoms and often with severe side effects. Here’s to the future of research!