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Chronic Joy currently doesn’t welcome guest posts that are story-driven and practical, including actionable next steps and thought-provoking reflection questions. Written from personal experience, posts should wrestle with the questions, challenges, and difficulties of living with chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, or disability. Posts should highlight hope and be well-written and honest.
My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. (Psalm 45:1)
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Chronic Joy is a resource ministry built on a foundation of hope, purpose, worth, and joy in Jesus Christ for those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability. Topics can include:
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Are you passionate about telling your story, recording life events, or expressing beauty with your words? Contributing Writers invest their time, talent, and hearts in the mission and ministry of Chronic Joy by to submit multiple new posts each year based on need, following our detailed guidelines.
Cindee Snider Re
Author, Designer, and Co-Founder of Chronic Joy®
Cindee is married to the man she loves most in this world, mama to five adult kids, four of whom are married, and Lolli to an adorable grandson. Cindee and her five kids have Ehlers-Danlos, intractable migraines, and myriad co-existing conditions. While a life steeped in illness is not what she would have chosen, through it, she’s learning that the deeper the valley, the greater her capacity for joy.
Cindee is the author of Discovering Hope, Finding Purpose, Embracing Worth, and I Take You in Sickness and in Health.
Pamela Piquette
Executive Director and Co-Founder of Chronic Joy®
Pamela, a leader and a visionary following God's call to inspire those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, and chronic pain, believes that every precious life impacted by illness is both vital and purposed.
Pamela is a wife of more than 35 years, the mom of three married children, and a grandma of six. She is diagnosed with chronic migraines and other chronic conditions. She enjoys baking sourdough bread and chocolate chip cookies, drinking hot tea, being outdoors, and reading (almost always more than one book at a time).
Barbara Coleman
Barbara lived in Maryland, where she ministered with her husband, Mike, for over 50 years. Now, in Florida, she has time for gardening, painting, reading, and enjoying the Lord. Barbara has three grown sons and ten grandchildren. She says, "Anything that makes me need God is a blessing!" She is the author of The Wonderful Land of Affliction.
Bettie Gilbert
You can find Bettie blogging from her home in the far north suburbs of Chicago at bettiegsraseasons.com. She is walking forward with Jesus in the middle of her pain and weakness from multiple chronic illnesses. The beauty of nature and her family (including ten grandchildren) are Bettie's joys. She and her husband have been married for over 40 years and take great delight in their weekend coffee breaks together.
Abiding in Him is a devotional memoir by Bettie and her husband, Barry.
AMBER GINTER
Amber is a teacher-turned-author who loves Jesus, her husband Ben, and granola. Growing up, Amber looked for faith-based mental health resources and found none. Today, she offers hope for young Christians struggling with mental illness that goes beyond simply reading their Bible and praying more (because you can love Jesus and still suffer from anxiety). You can download her faith and mental health resources for free to help you navigate books, podcasts, videos, and influencers through a faith lens. Visit her website at amberginter.com.
Laurie Glass
Staff Writer
Laurie holds a master's degree in Christian counseling and is the author of Coping with ME/CFS and Expressing Your Grief: Through Poems and Prayers. Many of her poems and articles have appeared in print and online. In 2019, she won the Open Medicine Foundation poetry contest. Laurie loves using her writing to encourage others.
Kara Plett
Ministry Assistant
Kara and her husband Conrad live in Calgary, Canada, where she taught for 28 years. She loves the Word of God and encourages others through her devotional writing. Kara felt led to write a book of devotionals (Searching for Sea Glass) when her journey with chronic illnesses pressed her more deeply into God’s arms of love. She prays that her journey and refinement will encourage your walk with God.
Vaneetha Risner
Vaneetha writes and speaks about meeting God in suffering. She is the author of The Scars That Have Shaped Me, Walking Through Fire, Desperate for Hope (a Bible study), and Watching for the Morning: 90 Devotionals When Hope Is Hard to Find. You can find her writing at Desiring God and Vaneetha.com. Vaneetha lives in North Carolina with her husband, Joel. She has two daughters, Katie and Kristi.
Megan Willome
Megan is the author of a new poetry collection Love and Other Mysteries. She's also written a memoir (The Joy of Poetry) and a picture book of form poems (Rainbow Crow). Her day is incomplete without poetry, tea, and a walk in the dark. Read her work at meganwillome.substack.com.
Gayl Wright
Ministry Assistant
A grandmother but young at heart, Gayl enjoys exploring creativity through writing, poetry, nature photography, art, crocheting, and playing the piano. She loves coffee, tea, chocolate, and jeans. Gayl has been married to Steve for nearly 50 years; they have seven children and 14 grands (some have chronic illnesses, and one son is now with Jesus). Always learning and writing from her heart about life, she desires to know God better, glorify Him, and encourage others. She is the author of Journey into Light.
Lee Ann Zanon
Staff Writer
Lee Ann is passionate about spreading the truth of Scripture. For decades, she served in various women’s ministry roles (including teaching at Corban University for ten years) until chronic pain dramatically changed her life. Her background as a Bible teacher, retreat speaker, worship leader, editor, and writer has prepared her for her current focus on writing and providing one-on-one encouragement. She and her husband Mike have two adult daughters and five precious grandchildren who live just five minutes away—a gift beyond description! She is the author of Honest Hope.