Hey friends, welcome back to Nourished to Bloom!
Today's episode is inspired by a powerful message that landed in my devotional this morning: Do It Afraid.
If you've ever felt overwhelmed, stuck in self-doubt, or just plain scared to step into something new—whether it's recording a podcast, starting that business, or even tackling the never-ending laundry—this one's for you.
We're taking encouragement straight from the Gospels, where the women at the tomb faced fear, confusion, and uncertainty after Jesus's resurrection… and still chose to move forward. Their faith wasn't perfect, but they didn't wait for the fear to pass. They obeyed anyway—and Jesus met them right there, on the way.
This episode isn't just about big, life-changing callings. It's about everyday courage. Saying "yes" to small acts of obedience as much as the extraordinary ones.
I'm sharing 5 practical tools to help you take action—even when fear is loud: ✨ Identify your specific fear—what's really holding you back? 🍃 Ask: What kind of good fruit might grow from leaning in? ❤️ Consider: Who are you serving—yourself, others, or God's mission? 🚶🏼♀️ Take one small, loving step. Holiness is found in ordinary faithfulness, not in waiting for something grand. 🌷 Watch for where God is already showing up—even as you walk forward afraid.
If you're ready to turn anxious energy into holy boldness, tune in for a soul-soothing pep talk, scriptural encouragement from the stories of Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus, and practical steps you can use today—even if you're shaking in your shoes.
🎧 Your weekly challenge: Don't wait for the nerves to go away. Choose one thing the Lord is nudging you toward… and do it afraid. Then, keep your eyes open for how He shows up along the way.
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Do it afraid. That was the
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message that I got in my devotional reflection
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this morning. Do it afraid. And if you could
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take a peek into my mind and my heart and the
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anxious stomach full of butterflies that I woke up with this morning,
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you would know that that was the message that the Lord needed me
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to hear. Kara do it afraid.
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So often, just like you, I let the fears
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and the worries and the doubts of whatever it is the Lord is calling
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me to do. Whether it's to record a podcast today or go
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out and start a new business venture tomorrow, or
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just do the laundry. There's times that I
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let the circumstances and the fear and the doubt and
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the drudgery of it all take over.
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But I was reminded today how we can look to the
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Gospels and how we can look to the gospel, particularly about
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Jesus's resurrection, and see the women who were there
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and take their example away of the
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emotions that they had and how
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they did it. Afraid. They did what the Lord asked them to do
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and they did it afraid. And so today I want to
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take some time to explore a little bit more about these
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examples that we have from the Gospel and from scripture about women who did
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it afraid. Who did what the Lord asked them to do, not
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fully knowing what he was asking them to do, and then give you some
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practical tools to use that have really helped me when I
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face these instances in life where I have to do it afraid.
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What does it look like to do it? Afraid? Well,
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join me in today's episode and you will for sure take
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away some practical tools and some scriptural
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inspiration to help you the next time that you
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just need to do what the Lord is asking you to do and do
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it afraid. Welcome to the Nourish to Bloom
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podcast, where your faith meets your health. I'm your host, Kara
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Trachta, a registered dietitian and certified Catholic coach, and I'm here to
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help you cultivate a deep, deeper connection with your body, your spirit,
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and the nourishment that sustains them both. In a world
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filled with noise and confusion about food, health and body
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image, this podcast offers truth and healing from a Christ centered
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perspective. Together, we'll untangle the deep roots of diet
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culture and discover what it means to truly care for
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ourselves through joyful nourishment of mind, body and
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soul, we're here to dive into the transformative power of intuitive eating
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coupled with the rich teachings of our Christian faith. With every
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episode, I'll be cheering you on, offering insights, inspiration
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and practical tools to help you heal your relationship with
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food and embrace the beauty of your body as a temple of the
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Holy Spirit with confidence and courage that
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can. Only be found in Christ. Join me as we journey together
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towards a more holistic approach to wellness, one that honors the wisdom
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of your body as God's creation, the teachings of our faith,
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and the unique purpose you're called to fulfill. You
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were made to bloom, to come into full beauty
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and health in order to bear good fruit for the Lord with your life.
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So if you're ready to nourish your body, feed your soul and bloom into the
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best version of yourself, then you're in the right place. And I'm so happy
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you're here. Welcome to Nourish to Bloom, where
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every day is a sacred invitation to thrive.
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Hey there. Welcome back to another episode of the Nourish to
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Bloom podcast. So happy to be spending this time
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with you today and every week at this
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time. So just a quick thank you to all of you who tune in week
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after week to listen to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. I
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pray that it is fruitful in your own life just as much
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as it has been in my own life to share this message with you,
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to talk about faith led wellness, to talk about what
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it looks like to lean into where the Lord is calling you.
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So thank you for that. And today we're going to talk
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about what it looks like to do it. Afraid I
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woke up this morning and just felt like after this
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three day weekend that I just had so much
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to do. There was just this never ending thing of like this
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and this and this and this and how was I going to fit it all
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in and record the podcast, clean the pool, water
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the grass, like all the things. And it's never fun to wake
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up feeling overwhelmed. I'm sure that you can relate to that. It's just
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never fun to wake up and let that be the tone that starts your
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day. But thankfully I start most of my
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mornings getting up early before my kids do, before my husband
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does and spend time reading
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scripture or a devotional. And the
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Lord often provides exactly the message that I need to hear
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through a scripture reading reading or through a devotional.
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And just like always today he
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provided. So I read this devotional daily
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from Blessed is She. It comes in my email inbox and
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it just is a really good way to reflect on scripture
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and in a way that I think speaks to the heart of a
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woman. And so today I was reading the devotional
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and it was based off of the Gospel reading for today
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which was Matthew 28 verse 8 through
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15 which I'll read that real quick. I'm gonna actually read like
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1 through 15. But it's the resurrection of Jesus according to
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Matthew, that at daybreak on the first day of the week, they took the
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spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled
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away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of
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the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two
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men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and
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bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, why do you seek
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the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been
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raised. Remember what he said to you. Well, nope, you
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know what, I apologize. This is Luke's version of the Gospel, but
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we're gonna continue. He is not here, but he has been
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raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee. That the
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Son of man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified and rise
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on the third day. And they remembered his words, then
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returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the 11 and to all
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the others. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and the mother
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of. And Mary the mother of James. The others who
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accompanied them also told this to the apostles, but
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their stories seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them. But Peter
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got up and ran to the tomb, bent down and saw the burial cloths
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alone. Then he went home amazed at what had happened.
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So let's go to Matthew's version. So in Luke's version, a couple
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of things really stood out to me and kind of
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as I read today's devotional and, and it reflected
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on this idea of doing it, afraid. And these
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emotions that the women as well as the apostles
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went through after discovering the tomb being
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empty is what I really was drawn to, is these different emotions
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that they all experienced at this. This encounter,
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this event
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that took place in history and how they must have felt. And I
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think it's. I appreciate the. The sacred
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scripture right here, including these emotions that they must have felt,
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because I think it's something that we can rest
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in knowing that even the closest followers of Jesus,
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the ones who actually walked with him in his
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time on earth, still felt these kind
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of uncomfortable
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emotions, this, this disbelief, this confusion,
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this, this fear, this worry that we still
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experience today. And I think it brings a little bit of comfort to know
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that even those who were closest to Jesus also experienced so many
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of these emotions when they had.
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They had the most, you know, like one
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on one time, the, the most like, realistic encounter that you could
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possibly Have. So let's look at Matthew's
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version. So after the sabbath at the as the first day of
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the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
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And behold, there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended
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from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone and sat upon it. His
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appearance was like lightning and his clothing was white as snow. The guards were
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shaken with fear of him and became like dead men. Then the angel said
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to the woman in reply, do not be afraid. I know that you are
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seeking Jesus the Crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised
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just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then
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go quickly and tell his disciples he has been raised
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from the dead and he is going before you to Galilee. There you
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will see him. Behold, I have told you. Then they went
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away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and
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ran to announce this to his disciples. And behold,
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Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached,
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embraced his feet and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, do
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not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee and
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there they will see me.
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So we see in Luke's version there was those
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emotions of puzzlement from the women when they just couldn't understand
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why the to would be empty. And then we see that Peter went and
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he. He left the tomb being amazed for he was
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able to believe what the Lord had said. And then we see in Matthews
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how the women, they left the tomb
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fearful yet overjoyed, right? Two emotions that are
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probably on like opposing ends of the spectrum. Fearful
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yet overjoyed. And I think
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that that just speaks to how when the Lord is asking us to
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do stuff to for him, that we can have these
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conflicting emotions, that we can be fearful and worried,
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but yet we can be excited for what he's calling us to,
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that we can experience so many
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different emotions all at once. But I think what
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ends up happening is that we tend to let maybe
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more of those negative emotions be the
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emotions that we operate from. We get stuck in the worry
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and the fear and the doubt and the. But what we see and
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what Beth Davis, the author of the the
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Blessed, is she devotional for today. What she said is
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that that there's good news in the Gospel,
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that the Mary's didn't have perfect faith. When they went to
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announce to the disciples that the tomb was empty,
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they did it afraid, they ran despite
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their raging emotions and Jesus met them on the
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way. And then she encourages us to
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just keep going, to take the next Right step. Do what love
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requires in this moment and be confident that Jesus is going
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to meet you along the way. Because too often we
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get frustrated with a lack of confidence in the Lord
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that he's actually going to fulfill whatever it is
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that he's calling us to. But instead take
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comfort and rest in from the examples of
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Mary Magdalene and the other women who visited the tomb, that
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we can do what the Lord is asking us to do and we can do
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it afraid. And that when we just, as I like
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to say, step out in holy boldness, that the Lord is going to meet us
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along the way. We don't know what that looks like, we don't know what
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that entails, but we should be confident and we can
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actually look back in so many different areas of our
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lives where maybe we did do it afraid. And we can see
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where the Lord did show up, where he did walk that
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path with us. And that's the hard part is we don't
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always know as we set out on the journey, we
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are try to do something new.
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It's much easier to connect the dots looking back,
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but we have, we can rest in this idea of
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doing it afraid from Mary Magdalene and the other Mary's
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example. And then we can also look at Mary, the mother of
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God, who did it afraid, who
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said yes to the Lord, not completely knowing what
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was being asked of her, but having complete
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faith and trust in what the Lord was asking
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her to do. And because she did that, because
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she gave that initial yes, that initial fiat
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when God asked her to be the mother of his
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son, she then
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gained that confidence, she gained that belief
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as she walked through life to when you can see her at
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the wedding feast at Cana, when she looks at the servants and
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says, do what he tells you, right? With
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complete faith and confidence that Jesus was going to
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handle that situation. She could boldly tell someone,
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just do what he tells you. And I think that we can
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take both of these examples and really look at that,
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like I said, that you can step out and do it afraid and see where
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those, where he has shown up and then
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confidently be able to share that with other people, to
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offer that encouragement and that and that confidence and that
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empowerment to other women, to other people, to our own
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children that we have been entrusted to
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care for, to then say, just do what the Lord tells
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you. Because we know that it brings peace, we know that it brings
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comfort, we know that it brings fulfillment. And
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it's so funny because I think we get caught up like, like Peter
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did. It's just like it's amazing,
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right? When we see how the Lord fulfilled whatever it was that
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he asked. And then we kind of wonder, well, why did I ever
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doubt? Why did I ever question? Why was I ever
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scared to begin with? And I know that I struggle
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with this a lot. It's part of my. My sanguine
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temperament of I have these big ideas, these big
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dreams, these big visions, these big goals, if you will.
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And I can see what that ideal will look like. I can see what the
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outcome is, but I don't know how to get from
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right here to that outcome. And so I get
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stuck. I don't usually start because I can't see what the
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path is instead of just taking the next
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right step. And so I get caught up and
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I. I hold on to the dream, I hold on to the
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vision, but I just don't know how to get there.
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And so that's when I get this message, like today
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of just do it afraid. So I wanted to share
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five things that really helped me to.
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To do it. Afraid. To step
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out in holy boldness, to follow the Lord and whatever he is calling me
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to, whether that's building a new habit or
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trying something new in my business, or
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just even the simple daily tasks that
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I don't enjoy doing, right? So what
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does it look like to do it? Afraid. So the first thing that helps
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me when I am in this situation is to really
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identify the fear or the worry. Because
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that's usually what is at the heart of it. Sometimes we may have
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this like. Like this
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top layer of emotion, maybe anxiety
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or doubt, but if we, like, think of that as
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a blanket and we lift the blanket and we look under it, a lot of
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times the underlying emotion is fear
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or worry. And so when we can simply just
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ask, what am I fearing if I do
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this thing, if I take this step, if I do what the Lord is asking
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me to do, what am I afraid will happen? Or what am
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I worried about? And sometimes it feels like
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legitimate concerns. What if I fail? What
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if I look like
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a fool? What will other people think about me if I do
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this? But we have to look at the nature of that fear
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and that worry. Because the examples I just gave you
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are fear and worry that is driven by
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like, worldly expectations and worldly ideals,
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right? Often letting that fear and that
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worry keep us from taking action because we are worried
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about the outcome. We are worried about what other people will
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think. But instead, if we start to identify
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what this fear and this worry is, we can start to really
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understand what I want to Call like the nature of that
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fear or worry, we can start to understand what the tone of that fear
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or worry is. Because sometimes
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the fear or the worry is actually
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excitement underneath, right? A little bit of an
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unknown, but there's an excitement to it because you know that this is something
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that you're excited about, that you want to pursue, that you know the Lord is
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calling you to. And so that fear and that worry
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may kind of mask over this underlying
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excitement so we can start to understand that tone. Is the
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fear and worry, something that is negative, that
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seems harmful, that would be of the enemy
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versus this fear or worry that is,
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you know, intertwined with excitement,
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that we know that that can be from the Lord, that he wants us
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to pursue this, right? So when we can identify this fear or this
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worry, this helps us to get that, that fear or
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worry, that thought out of our, out of the
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darkness of our minds. And it really lets us
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bring it to the light. It really lets us
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to, allows us to shed the light of reason, of
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looking at it with intention, of looking at it with
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logic, and of looking at it with a, a
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Christ centered perspective. And see again, what is
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that tone? What is this fear or worry really about?
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And then when we bring that to the light, that's
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where Christ steps in and he transforms that and he helps us to,
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just to see what is this fear or worry and
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do we need to hold on to it? Because the Lord
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isn't going to lead us to something that is harmful. He isn't going to
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lead us to something that would
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be of like this negative
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negativity in our lives the way the enemy would. Now I won't say
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that the Lord doesn't call us to do hard things that feel
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uncomfortable, that maybe you, you try something and it
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doesn't work out the way you want it to. But that's part of that growth
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of understanding, okay, this is not the way
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that this works or this is not the way that this problem
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is going to be solved. Let's look for a different solution that's,
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that's a little bit different there. But just know like
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when we, when we take that fear in this worry and we can really shed
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that light on it, look at it with reason and logic in that Christ centered
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perspective. It, it doesn't become all
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consuming. We can really use this
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practical tool, this lens to really help us understand the
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nature of that fear or worry and really
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debunk and, and start to overcome those
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obstacles of fear and worry that tend to keep us stuck and frozen
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from ever taking Action. So
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tip number two is to really look at what good
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will come out of this if you were to do this thing that the Lord
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is asking you to do. What good is going to come out of it?
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What kind of fruit is it going to bear? Right?
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The scripture reminds us that we can tell
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a tree by the fruit that it bears, right? So what good
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could possibly come out of doing whatever this
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thing is that you are contemplating? Is it going to lead
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to good fruit? Is it going to be done where it
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leads to more love, it leads to more peace, more freedom, serving
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of others, serving a vulnerable population?
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Or are you really doing it for the
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acknowledgment, the. The appreciation, the look at
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me and what I accomplished? Is that your motivation
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or is that what you're hoping to get out of this? Because
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those are two very different perspectives as well.
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One is leaning into and seeing that this is going to bear
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fruit that the Lord deems as good. And the
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other one is more fruit that
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could be rotten, right? That could be of the
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enemy sewing those weeds in our. In our fields
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and it choking out the good fruit.
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And then that kind of leads to this third one of like really looking at,
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if I do this, who is it serving? Who
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am I serving by doing this? Am I being obedient to the Lord and what
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he is asking me to do, or am I being obedient to
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the world and its expectations and ideals?
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Who am I really looking to serve or help? Is it self
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fulfilling or is it really an act of service that is going to
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do good for others and that you are
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serving the Lord or you are serving the world or the enemy?
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So really looking at those two things and then the
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next one is just take some sort of action,
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right? That's really where you can embody the idea of do it afraid, the word
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do, right, A verb, do it afraid. Just
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take some sort of action. And what is
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the first step that you can take or what is the next
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step that you can take? And I've really spent some time reflecting on this.
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And we know that Pope Francis passed
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away this morning. And there was a quote that was sent out that he said
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and it really, it really hit home. But he said that
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holiness isn't doing extraordinary things, but it's doing ordinary
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things with love and faith. And I really took that to
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heart because sometimes I get caught up and wrapped up in this idea
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that whatever it is that I'm doing or that I'm going to do,
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it needs to be extraordinary. It needs to
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immediately have an impact Immediately change the world. It
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needs to, you know, be the,
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the I'm going to use the podcast as an example, the best podcast
00:23:44
message that has ever been out there. Or you
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know, just I get caught up in that extreme of it needing to be
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extraordinary. And that's part of that people pleasing
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personality that I have is that it needs to be
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the most, the best. But the reality is is that's often not
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what the Lord is call to do. Right. I have that big vision in that
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dream and I get so caught up and think that well, it's got to be
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an extraordinary step that's going to help me achieve that instead of
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really looking at it as it's small
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ordinary steps that I take one at a time
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that build upon each other that lead to
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that outcome, that the outcome or
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the thing, the big vision, the ideal, the dream
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is the extraordinary. But that doesn't
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mean that the actions that I take are the are
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extraordinary actions or extreme actions. It's more
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about an everyday yes to the Lord and
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taking that next step or that first step and doing it
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with love and faith. Doing those ordinary things with love
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and faith. The things that are required in your house, the
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things that are required in your career, the things that are required
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in your relationships and your friendships, the things that are
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required with your business. Right. Just those
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small ordinary steps done in
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love and faith I think is really that
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foundation for
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the extraordinary things that we see. And we can look at the lives of
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saints and say, well, they were so extraordinary. But if we look at what
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got them there, it was the small ordinary steps
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done in love and faith. And that's what really made them
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holy. Not the extraordinary things, but that they
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surrendered and they did what the Lord asked them to. They gave a yes every
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single day. Yes, Lord, I will take this next step.
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So don't let inaction
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be your norm. Just really looking at it as one
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small step every day. What is the one thing that I can do for the
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Lord today? And then that leads to really
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the fifth thing of just looking for the Lord working
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in your life. Right. We can go back to scripture and remember
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that Jesus met Mary Magdalene and the other
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women on their way, that he showed up for them
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on their way. They were obedient to what they were told to do
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and the Lord showed up and he was there. And
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the same thing happens to us. Looking for how the
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Lord is working in your life
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and you'll start to see it. It's almost like
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I was at a women's retreat where Beth Davis, the Same person who did
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this devotional spoke, but she talked about how the Lord has a
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love language for you and that He. He.
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It's like he puts these things in your place.
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Maybe it's a scripture verse. Maybe it's a person. Maybe it's an
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OB just reminding you, like, look at me. I'm
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here. I. I did this for you because I love you. Will you just
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notice me? Right? And I think we can get so caught up
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in just the everyday chaos, chaos of life that we don't
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really stop and see that. But
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take a moment as you go through this, right, that you're taking. You're
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doing it afraid. Don't forget to look for where the Lord has met
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you along the way, the gifts that he shared, how he
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showed up to help you along this path.
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And if you kind of take these five practical things and
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start to use them as you find yourself maybe
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stuck in fear or worry or doubt or confusion or frustration
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or whatever it is, just remember that we
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can look to the scripture and that we can look at the examples
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of women who were so close to the Lord, who still were
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not perfect in their faith, but they did it afraid. They were obedient to
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the Lord, and he met them along the way and just
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took the next step that he was asking them to
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take. So that's my
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challenge to you for this week, is just to do it
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afraid. Do something afraid.
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And let the Lord and let him meet you on that
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path. I hope you continue to have a beautiful
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and blessed week. Remember, beauty held as the
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seed. Beauty shared is the flower. It is your
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time to bloom, y'all. It is your time to
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bloom, to come into full health and beauty
00:28:36
so you can confidently and boldly live for the
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Lord. That is my wish for you. That is my mission with
00:28:43
this podcast and with Bloom Wellness. I hope that you
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can do it afraid. So you can fully bloom
00:28:52
until next week. Take care, and I will see you right back here in a
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week. We'll talk soon. Bye.