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So today, as usual, I had another affirmation but then something hit me. Something just got me this morning and I felt like maybe, in my heart and my spirit, I felt there was somebody out there today, or somebody that might listen that is struggling. To be their creative selves. They're worried about what the world might think. They're worried that they might fail. They're worried about all these...

Do y'all remember when I talked to y'all about a group of nomads? I think they were in the Mojave desert. If not, we'll say it's the Mojave desert! They wanted some guys to take them through the desert and they were in a hurry. They were in a big hurry. They wanted to get to the other side. They didn't want to take their time. At one point, the guides just stopped in the middle of their trek, and...

Biophilia is a psychological theory that was championed by Pulitzer prize-winning conservation biologist, Edward O. Wilson. He believed that our biological urges, the love of living things, plants and wildlife, and the outdoors is genetic and encoded in us. It's there to help us thrive and to flow and go with nature. That makes sense to me. He says it's more than a cultural thing. It's a biologica...

So this affirmation is from November 2021. I'll tell you a little story about how only the lost can be found. This is probably one of my favorite ones. Hugh used to have guys in the recovery program that would say," I don't know where I'm going. I'm so lost. I don't have my way." and Hugh would say "That is wonderful. Then God can find you! When you're lost, God can find you. When you don't think...

I'm gonna do two things today. I was listening to the song God's Goodness is Running After Me? That is exactly what happens if we allow God's Goodness in our lives. If we think about all the good in our lives and all the good that happens to us, then more of that good will chase us down. If you talk about or think about all the bad things, then you'll get more of that. If you think about all the t...

I've got this flashlight at my lake house. It's one of those things where you plug it in and you charge it up and then it lights up. If I forget to charge it, it has no light. If I forget to charge me up, I have no light. I have learned the hard way that got charged me up so that I can have that light and will brighten up my world by being a reflection of God's love. Y'all know what I found? I can...

I wanna talk about living in our sweet spot. I'm more and more in tune with this the older I get, because I know my time is limited. Really. We should all live like that. We should all live like we have limited time because we do. If I spend time doing things I'm really not good at, and God did not design me to do, I can miss out on doing the things I need to be doing. I see that in my business. I...

My husband Hugh and I used to read a book together called White Eagle. It was one of his favorite little devotional books to read. We would just take the book and we'd open it up and we would read that together. Sometimes, if we were having trouble or we were worried about one of our kids or something, we would take that little book in the middle of the day and open it up and read it and that woul...

You cannot hold a miracle in a clenched fist. Y'all, I think about that all the time. I talk about the fact that if we hold on, so tightly the things we hold on so tightly to will stay with us. We don't really get to keep them. The more we hold on, the more we grip them with white knuckles. It is in the letting go of things. Letting it flow, that life tends to become healthier and more vibrant and...

I have my daughter Britt with me this morning, so I am so excited today. So Britt is going to share some writing with you today because it is International Moonman Day and to celebrate my husband Hugh when he went back to the moon. Intro 00:00 Guest Appearance By Britt Gonzalez 00:13 Sitting In Your Chair 1:15 Walking Each Other Home 1:59 Acceptance 3:51 Resources Ram Dass Britt Gonzalez We Are Al...

My sweet husband Hugh talked all the time about the gift we have in us as a gift that we're meant to give the world. That's something he said all the time. He said if someone is unkind to me or they're not good to me, or they don't love me, it really doesn't hurt me because I was made to give away what God has given me. The thing is, when you hurt someone when you're unkind, you think it's justifi...

I don't like today's topic. I'm just gonna be very honest with you. I don't like it. I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna talk about it because it's really not something that ever really plagues me. It's something I thought I was above because I don't do this thing that I'm about to talk about. I am really good about not comparing myself to other people. I really am. That's at least one of my things...

Wildflowers Show notes My daughter's book dropped this morning on Kindle. It's called We Are All Wildflowers. I just can't express what it means to me to see it drop. I've been fussing with myself for not finishing my book because I keep letting fear stop me. I keep doubting myself and keep changing. I'm thankful. Excuse my procrastination, but I'm so thankful for my daughter's book dropping first...

Let My Love Move Show Notes Today, our message is Let My Love Move. You know how they say faith without works is dead? Well, love without works is dead. Your love has to move and groove with life. If you're just keeping your love to yourself, it's not really love. I'll tell you what I really found out and being married to Hugh Smith and something I learned about love along the way. I feel more lov...

Today's affirmation is called " I love The Mountaintops." I don't think I've ever mentioned this to you before, but when I was growing up and as a teenager, and even as I got older, my mother always said that I was happiest climbing mountains. I don't mean literal mountains, because I don't think I really wanna do that. What I mean is, I love climbing. I love a challenge. I love it when the world'...

So today we're talking about action. We're talking about taking the thoughts we have and the energy and putting them into action. I have really fallen short of that lately. Gosh, I don't know how many months ago. I just stopped writing my blog every week... just stopped. And I call myself a writer? I'm not a writer if I'm not writing. It'd be like somebody that rides horseback to say I'm a horseba...

So I had convinced myself that I was done with the lake. I had not been to the lake in eight months. It's Been a long time and I kind of convinced myself that I didn't need it anymore. That's because it just cost me money. I let other people stay there and all my friends were staying there and stuff like that. I'm not making any money on it. I'm just spending money. So I had to sit down with my ac...

When I was pitching a fit on the golf course the other day and throwing my balls out of my bag, how would anybody know who I follow? How would anybody know who I follow? How would anybody know that I trust that God has it all in control? I don't, he does. When I get stressed or when I start letting the world be who I follow, then I think I develop things like high blood pressure. I think I develop...

Help Me Fly Show notes Today our affirmation is called, Help Me Fly. Have y'all ever heard that saying that says, what if I fail? And then it says, but what if I fly? You have this feeling right before you decide to do something, you're fearful that moment before you do it, and then you do it. Then you're given strength and hope and encouragement. When you take that step to do what you're put here...

I Am Radiant In Health Show Notes I know it's shocking, but I changed my mind at the last minute to do a different affirmation. One I'd written a while back about health. And the reason why I'm focusing on health right now. Well, one of the reasons is because, without our health, we have nothing. I mean, if I don't have good health, nothing else really matters. I can't really do any of the things...

I'm sitting on my patio today with the rain coming down. It is glorious. I wanna kinda continue the lesson from my horrible, horrible golf game because it taught me so much. One of the things that I remember hearing said one day, this is not my saying it, somebody else saying, the saying goes "a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul." -Mike Robbins A bad day for the ego is a great day fo...

I have missed y'all. Do I have some stories to tell you! Actually, one overreaching story… I learned a lesson and some sad news. I didn't learn it until this morning while I was sitting in the quiet with God. So if I had learned it like 54 holes ago. I would've had a better time. I'm gonna share a verse because I just wanna let you know that I did part of this, but I didn't do the other part of it...

I wasn't gonna tell this story, but I think I'm gonna tell it because it's really bugging me. It's eating at me. I'm gonna talk with the person too. I've told y'all that part of my mission statement is us being more together. I'm a Jesus follower. That means I'm not a Republican follower or a Democrat follower. That doesn't mean I don't have opinions about things. It just means that my opinions ar...

Be The Coffee Bean When Damon West was getting ready to go to prison, An elderly gentleman in the holding tank said to him, "Boy, I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna help you while you're in prison. You need to be the coffee bean." Damon West said, " I don't follow." The elderly gentleman said "This is the deal. If you take the pot of boiling water and you put a carrot in the pot of boiling...

Blessings For Me And For You Show Notes The world's crazy. Isn't it? The world's cray cray. Turns out that I'm okay with cray cray. I'm good. I can handle cray-cray very easily. That works okay for me. I think one of the things that I've noticed that happens is that sometimes we think if somebody wins and somebody loses, that's not always the case in life. That's not always the case. I think there...