I totally date myself at this point – I’m so sorry to the younger generation who doesn’t know Laverne and Shirley – or for that matter, Lenny and Squiggy.
A friend of mine asked the other day, “Why did you name it ‘Just Living with Lyme’, aren’t you healed from Lyme? Why hold on to the label?”
Fantastic question. Lyme changed me. Having, healing and surviving Lyme changed everything for me and for my family. Things that were important are not now. Things I thought mattered, whether relationships or priorities are completely gone. My heart and world are different.
It is not a label I am ashamed of – it is not a scarlet letter of something I am ashamed of or am defeated by. It is not a label I am trying to hide behind or an illness I am hanging on to because my identity is too wrapped up in it. I am not a victim of this illness. I conquered it.
Look at Laverne with her proud letter L, happy and proud of the identity she has in herself. God used Lyme to adjust my focus and shift my thinking. He derailed plans that needed cancelling and put joy back where they was only routine.
It is a scar in life I’m proud to show off and share as a story of overcoming and becoming something new.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19)
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