In this article, Mary Yerkes shares her testimony of living with rheumatoid arthritis. Yerkes maintains that living with chronic illness brings a life of constant change, reassessment, and readjustment. Yerkes concludes that living with chronic illness is also a life of faith—co-laboring with God through illness to realize His purposes.
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Mary J. Yerkes
Beauty Instead of Ashes: Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Journal of Biblical Counseling 23:1
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