Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

You know, we're going to talk today about building an infrastructure for joy, but I want to set

it up. It was many years ago, many years ago, as a young mom, and begging God to heal me,

you've heard some of my backstory, my battle with Lyme, but this is one of those times where

God seemed silent, and I literally felt

like my prayers were bouncing off the ceiling. I'm like, oh God, if not for me, for these little kids, these boys need their mama. He'll me. Oh, God, heal me. And one day, it's like he broke a silence, thunder to my spirit. And I knew it was him because I was not smart enough to come up with this, but he said, Susie, I could heal you today, but you lose it

tomorrow. I'm like, what? I could heal you today, but you lose it tomorrow. You don't have the

infrastructure for healing. You think like a sick person. And it was true. The symptoms were so all

over the map, and every symptom terrified me.

And just as a young mom, feeling at the mercy of something going on in my body that I could not control, and the mounting medical debt, I thought like a sink person.

And so I spent the next 20 years building an infrastructure for healing.

And at one point, one of the docs told me to go to a support group for Lyme patients,

and that may be good for some. That's the last thing I needed because I didn't want to hear

everybody else's fear stories. So I'd taught a little bit of aerobics before I got sick,

but I decided to study for a national fitness certification while I was so sick I could only

take one shower a week. I didn't have any

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