After a six-month break from X (formerly Twitter), author and Bible teacher Beth Moore shared a health update with her nearly 1 million followers. On Tuesday (April 22), two days after resurfacing on X to post an Easter message, the founder of Living Proof Ministries wrote about challenges that have made “life in this physical body increasingly difficult.”
As ChurchLeaders has reported, Moore had spine surgery last summer after enduring severe pain from a “years-long” back condition. Tuesday, the 67-year-old mother and grandmother wrote that the past year has been “the weirdest 12 months” and “a strange journey.”
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I’ve had the weirdest 12 months. Racked with increasingly intolerable pain throughout my body and the diminishing of some key physical abilities, I went through a battery of tests. The diagnoses were multifaceted but all of them had teamed up to make life in this physical body…
— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) April 22, 2025
Moore described receiving “multifaceted” diagnoses, being “racked with increasingly intolerable pain throughout my body,” and facing “the diminishing of some key physical abilities.” She also referenced having “several major surgeries” and being “riddled with fresh scars.”
Recovery and physical therapy have amounted to “the hardest work I’ve ever done in my life,” Moore admitted.
Beth Moore Endures a ‘Crisis of Sorts’
In her post, Beth Moore said she realizes that other people have faced “far worse” physical challenges. “But I can’t say this wasn’t a crisis of sorts for me,” she wrote. “Because this became the long and short of it: How much pain was I willing to endure in order to be in less pain? Holy cow.”
Moore continued:
Reminded me a bit of the scene in John 5 where the man long infirmed was asked by Jesus, do you want to get well? What a question, after all. Who doesn’t want to get well?? But this became the inquiry for me at this rather late date in my life. Do I just do nothing and let nature take its course? How much was I willing to endure to have significant agility restored and to be relieved of some of this pain?
It’s tough yet to “effectively articulate” what she’s been going through, Moore said. She’s still “simply learning how to stand up straight again and walk without limping.”
Although “the days are really challenging,” Moore wrote, “this experience with God is one of the most surreal of my life. Yesterday at physical therapy I was able to do something I couldn’t have done 15 years ago.” But, she added, “Don’t hear me romanticizing this journey.”
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