The Importance of Slowing Down

The Importance of Slowing Down

BY BRANDY DAVENPORT, CO-BLOGGER Setting agendas, scheduling appointments, making phone calls, doing work, washing laundry, packing for a trip, unpacking from a trip, prepping grocery lists, cooking meals, cleaning the house, bathing the dogs, bathing the kids, putting...
Q&A with a Nearly-40-year Diabetes Warrior

Q&A with a Nearly-40-year Diabetes Warrior

Today starts a series of Q&A blog posts in which I will be interviewing various people about their experience with diabetes. This first post comes from a fellow type 1 diabetes warrior, wife, and mom who has lived with T1D for almost four decades – Melissa...
Diabetes, Suffering, and Six Helpful Reminders

Diabetes, Suffering, and Six Helpful Reminders

I was so captivated by the story of suffering I was reading on my phone in the kitchen a few weeks ago that I nearly burnt my children’s grilled cheese sandwiches. This was unlike any story I had ever read before. It was actually hard to read. But the more I read, the...
Trusting God with Diabetes

Trusting God with Diabetes

BY BRANDY DAVENPORT, CO-BLOGGER Does trusting God sometimes feel like a challenge? I’ve often heard the saying, “let go and let God.” And I’ve always thought this was much easier said than done. The trouble for me is that having a firm grip on something helps me feel...