When your body can’t do what it once did, the loss reaches far beyond your health.

Plans change.

Independence feels less certain.

Rest can bring guilt.

Prayer can feel different.

And questions about purpose, faith, and the future can become harder to ignore.

Still Held is a compassionate Christian devotional for anyone learning to live faithfully through chronic illness and a life that no longer looks the way they expected.

Written from honest lived experience and grounded in Scripture, C. Sheffer explores the struggles that often remain hidden beneath the surface, including:

• The grief of losing abilities you once took for granted
• Feeling misunderstood or unseen by others
• Learning to rest without guilt
• Holding onto hope when healing doesn’t come as expected
• Navigating unanswered prayer
• Redefining strength when your capacity changes
• Finding purpose within a smaller or different life
• Facing an uncertain future without losing faith

Inside Still Held

Digital Format: EPUB

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You’ll find 10 thoughtful devotional reflections, each designed to give you space to slow down, process what you’re experiencing, and bring it honestly before God.

Each chapter includes:

✓ Scripture-based encouragement

✓ Honest reflection on chronic illness and changing capacity

✓ Thought-provoking reflection questions

✓ A short prayer for the day

✓ Gentle encouragement without forced positivity or easy answers

This is not a book that tells you to simply “stay positive” or pretend everything is fine.

Instead, Still Held makes room for faith and frustration, grief and gratitude, weakness and hope to exist together.

Because your capacity may have changed…

but your worth has not.

Your story is not finished.

You are still seen.

Still loved.

Still becoming.

Still held.

This book may be for you if...

You’re living with chronic illness or physical limitations…

You’re grieving the life or abilities you once had…

You’re struggling with guilt because you can’t do as much as before…

You’re questioning what purpose looks like in this season…

Or you simply need a reminder that God has not stepped away from your story.

Still Held is an invitation to stop measuring your life only by what your body can accomplish—and begin seeing the grace, meaning, and purpose that can still exist right where you are.