While you are limited in some ways by having a chronic illness, you have much to offer your children that they might not have gained had you been healthy. Compassion for the weak, the weary, and the wounded is a rare gift among youth today. Count your children in on the blessed bunch to be learning it firsthand. In your home. At your feet. From your heart. And in the precious words my children have spoken over me, over and over, “I hope you feel better, Mommy.”