In this episode, host, Kelly Wolfe, is joined by Lyndsey Medford, author of the recently released book My Body and Other Crumbling Empires as:-Lyndsey shares her experience with chronic illness (a rare autoimmune disorder diagnosed in childhood, in remission for several years in older adolescence/early adulthood, and which has returned), disability, and how she has learned to see her illness/disability as a potentially lifelong companion, rather than an enemy. We also discuss:—how our bodies can become sites of Divine revelation, and how she has been met, and ministered to, by God through her body;—burnout, self-care, and when we might need to be looking deeper into the ways we order our lives to better honor our human limitations;— ideas like communal sin/ unintended consequences, and how Shalom (wholeness and integrity found also in community)  ...