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Chronic Illness Truth #21

10/7/2019

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The truth is that Lyme Disease or any chronic illness is no joke.  It can be very intense and very exhausting on the daily.  I've often found that there are many people who choose to walk in and walk out of my life because if you get too close too me, my natural fire can tend to singe your eyebrows!

Here's my response to anyone who has made comments about how I can be "a big sacrifice" or a "burden" because of my illness:

Everybody that breathes can be viewed as a sacrifice!  Every single person in this life will reach a point where they will be called to go through deep adversity and trials, and the reason for that is because we do not learn the greatest of life's lesson without a little sting in the process.  We cannot truly know and appreciate joy and peace if do not first pass through intense pain.  As we all come to those times in our lives, it would do as all some good to take each other by the hand and offer LOVE and SUPPORT instead of criticism and fear.  (Believe me, this illness gives me enough fear without other people adding to it.)

My reality is that I may cry a little more and little harder than most, but I also laugh a lot harder and a lot louder than most.  I may experience intense panic and PTSD, but I've also found that it doesn't take much to get me to smile anymore.  My heart may cry out in agony a little more frequently that I ever thought it would; but thankfully I've found my sparkle through it all that comes from being unique and rare.

Everything in life has it's opposite.  The goal is to look for the good and focus on the immense beauty that is often found among all the ugly.  And the goal in our interactions with others is to see them for who they really are and who they have the potential to be, and then to love them through this scary, intense, beautiful, and miraculous life.
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