My roommates rubbed my aching hands and back when I couldn’t stand another minute of pain. Friends carried my books across campus when I couldn’t. There were many days I didn’t think I’d make it to graduation, let alone be physically able to walk across the stage.Īnd I made it there because others gave me enough grace to keep showing up, even when it was nearly too hard. I often couldn’t sit through class because of pain, and my roommates frequently had to cut my food for me at dinner or drive me across campus because walking was too hard. I finished my senior year doing three semesters’ worth of work in two, with one half the amount of energy as my former self. because I almost didn’t make it there.ĭuring the middle of my junior year, disease exploded into my life like a missile.

I felt like a beam of light floating across the stage. I was the happiest graduate at my college graduation. Connect with her online at and across social media. listens for the liturgy of life in wildflowers, sunsets, sorrow, and church. She and her husband Ryan, along with their two exceptionally cuddly dogs, Merton and Resa, live near Denver, Colorado where K.J. writes at the intersection of theology, psychology, and spiritual formation to guide us in recovering the rhythm of resilience through nervous system regulation and the wonder of communion with God. She holds degrees from Covenant College and Denver Seminary and is the author of This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers and The Lord is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love.

Ramsey is a trauma-informed licensed professional counselor and author whose work offers space to see every part of our souls and stories as sacred.

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