Lydia Dicas leads worship at church but has also suffered through years of debilitating chronic pain

Worship leader Lydia Dicas has lived with physical pain for as long as she can remember. She says that in the midst of suffering, intimacy with God is everything

I am now 40 years old, and for as long as I can remember I’ve had physical pain in my body. It got worse in my early 20s. Always tummy aches, migraines, muscle pain and nerve pain. Doctors have never been able to truly diagnose what it really is; they tried calling it fibromyalgia, but aren’t sure. Four years ago, I slipped a disc. That has aggravated the pains in my body and it has been worse since then. A few months ago my ten-year-old daughter said: “Mummy I can’t remember a day that you were not in pain.”