About

Karis Meier

I’m Karis — author, speaker, wife, and mother of four. Our family has lived in a lot of places over the years, but we now call Kansas home.

The short version

I’ve lived with chronic illness for nearly twenty years. It began with a parasitic infection I picked up while overseas in my mid-twenties and grew — over years of doctors and diagnoses and procedures — into Lyme disease and a long list of complications that have shaped almost every adult chapter of my life. I’m a counselor by training, with a BA in Christian Education and an MA in Counseling, and for most of those years I tried to keep my own suffering as private as I could. I didn’t want to be a burden. I didn’t want to be the one complaining. What slowly broke that silence was Scripture — especially the Psalms, which taught me I was allowed to come to God raw instead of composed.

Why I write

What eventually became Suffering Redeemed started very small. A Facebook group I called Suffering Well, where I began sharing some of the things I’d been quietly writing down for years. Then a blog. Then essays I never meant to share with anyone. In 2022 I turned those pages into a book — for anyone walking through pain and wondering where God is in the middle of it. Readers have told me it’s not a polished book, and they’ve meant it kindly. It was written from a hard place. I hope that’s part of why it’s useful.

The last few years

Since the book came out, I’ve had the unexpected gift of being invited onto more than fifty podcasts — conversations I never planned for, and that I’m still humbled to be part of. You can find all of them in the podcast library, sorted by theme. Some days I’m not sure how to put a smile on my face; I recorded some of those interviews on exactly those kinds of days. God has been faithful through every one.

What you’ll find here

This site is where I keep everything in one place: the book, the podcast appearances, and a blog of short reflections on walking with Jesus through hard seasons. If you’re here in a hard season yourself — chronic illness, grief, long waiting, or something you can’t quite name — I’m so glad you’re here. My prayer is that something on these pages helps you cling to hope, trust God more deeply, and experience His comfort wherever you are today.

— Karis