Hey friends — this week on Nourished to Bloom, we're diving into a passage of Scripture that hits right at the heart of who we are becoming: the Parable of the Gold Coin from Luke 19:11–28.
So many of us feel like God has entrusted us with something special — a talent, a passion, a story — but fear convinces us to tuck it away, keep quiet, or stay small. Whether we're in the "middle" years of motherhood, career, or faith, many of us are quietly wondering:
Who am I now? What is God asking of me? And what if I mess it all up?
In this episode, we explore how Jesus' invitation to "engage in trade" is really an invitation to step into the gifts He's placed in our hands — faithfully, courageously, and without comparison. We talk about what happens when we hide our gifts… and what can unfold when we finally offer them back to God.
Here's a look at what we unpack inside Episode 93:
✨ What the Parable of the Gold Coin reveals about identity, calling, and courage ✨ The subtle ways fear convinces us to hide our gifts or doubt our worth ✨ Why fruitfulness is found in surrender, not perfection or performance ✨ How we can multiply what God has entrusted to us through small, faithful steps ✨ A visualization practice to imagine Jesus placing your "gold coin" in your hands ✨ How to navigate moments of wanting to quit — and the breakthroughs that come with vulnerability ✨ A life-giving invitation to step into clarity and courage through the "Writing Your Sacred Story" Mini Retreat
This episode reminds us that the size of the gift is never the point — it's our willingness to use what God has placed in our hands that shapes our story. Fear freezes us. Faith multiplies.
📣 Call to Action: Join the Mini Retreat!
If your heart is longing for clarity, courage, or direction… if you're ready to stop hiding your gifts and finally understand your God-given "gold coin"… then we would love for you to join us inside the Writing Your Sacred Story Mini Retreat.
Retreat Details: ✨ Date: Tuesday, December 10 ✨ Time: 11:00 a.m. CST (Replay available!) ✨ What You'll Experience:
- Clarity around your God-given gifts
- Practical steps to multiply them
- Space to listen for God's direction
- Encouragement to step out of fear and into purpose
Tune in to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts, and share it with a friend who might need the reminder that her gifts matter.
It's time to stop hiding your gold coin. It's time to step into the woman God created you to be. 🌿💛
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Hey there. Welcome back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. I'm so
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grateful that you're here today. This week we're continuing our
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series on writing your sacred story and stepping into the woman
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that God created you to be. And to do that, we're going to go
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deep into a parable that, honestly, I've struggled
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with in the past, but now I think it hits right at the heart of
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where so many of us get stuck. It's the parable of
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the Gold Coin In Luke, chapter 19, verses 11, 28,
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y'. All. This passage has been stirring something in me for a few weeks
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now because it's not just a story about money, but
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it's really a story about identity and calling and
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having courage. And I think it can be a story about
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your life, your gifts, and your sacred story.
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So let's dive in.
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Hey there. Welcome back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. So happy to be
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spending some time with you this week amidst all the
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holiday chaos. Like I will fully admit, y', all, I
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had my meltdown yesterday. Full on, crying,
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sobbing, overwhelmed with all the
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overwhelm. I sure most of you know what I
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am talking about, but it is just the
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season, right? And I. I know that I have the tools to
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really cope with so much of this and it's usually not bad, but I
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feel like we all just sometimes hit that breaking point and
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yesterday was kind of a breaking point. And
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anyway, talked through some things, had some really great
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conversations with my husband and my kids about what I
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was feeling, what I was needing, and
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I feel like we've kind of turned a page. So I'm very
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grateful for that. But I'm sure many of you are probably having
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some similar experiences. But
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I hope that being here in the podcast is really a
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time for you to come and be renewed,
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get some encouragement.
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Have your Your faith deepened. So I.
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I pray that all of that is something that you get from the podcast, because
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I feel like that's really kind of the mission and. And the kind of the
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purpose and the point behind it. And this week is no
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different, because, like I said in the intro, we're really talking about
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the parable of the gold coin and how.
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The message of the parable is really, I think, what
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hits home for so many of us women who maybe find
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ourselves in a season of transition or something like middle
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motherhood, where we have had this shift, we've had
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this change, and we might not know,
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like, exactly who we are in this new chapter or,
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you know, what it is that we're being called to do,
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and maybe we have some clarity on that. But then, you
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know, this fear just kind of sets in. So we're going to talk about
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that. In Luke chapter 19, Jesus tells a
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story about a nobleman who goes away to receive
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his kingship. But before he leaves, he gives 10
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servants, one gold coin each, one opportunity.
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And he says, this is from Luke 19:13.
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Engage and trade with these until I return.
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This wasn't a suggestion. It was an invitation and
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really a responsibility. Jesus is saying that
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same thing to you and me today. It was like this light bulb moment,
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right? And reading this, and it says, engage in trade with these until I
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return. And I'm like, huh? The Lord is telling us the exact same
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thing. He's saying, use what I've entrusted to you,
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your talents, your gifts, your story, to
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love, to serve, to build my kingdom until I return,
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y'. All. It is an invitation, but it is also a
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responsibility. But then in the parable, we see that there's this
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one servant who keeps his coin hidden away. And I
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don't know about you, but that's the part that kind of gets me and the
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things that come after that, because he didn't waste it.
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He didn't spend it recklessly. He didn't hand it off to
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someone else. He just hid it.
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And in the parable, Jesus kind of calls him out, not because he didn't have
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enough talent, but because he refused to use what he was given,
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and he refused to use it out of fear.
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And let's be honest, we do this, too. I
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know I am 100% guilty of this. We hide our gifts
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because we're afraid of failing. We're afraid of what people
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will think. We're afraid that the gift isn't as big
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or impressive as someone else's. Maybe we feel
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unqualified or unprepared or unsure.
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Maybe we've tried to use our gift before and
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it's led us to hurt or suffering. Or maybe we've
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gone so long without using our gift that we don't even know what it is
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anymore. But this is fear.
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This is fear that is causing us to hide our
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gifts and to not use them, y', all. Because fear freezes
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us. Fear makes us unfruitful.
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Fear convinces you that hiding is safer.
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Fear is that little voice that's whispering, you'll mess
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it up. You'll embarrass yourself. Or someone
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else can do that better than you. But
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here's the truth that the Lord wants us to know. If we
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hide our gifts, we can't bear fruit for the kingdom,
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because fear will always make you unfruitful. But
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faith, but engaging in that
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invitation and that responsibility.
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That kind of faith is what allows our gifts to
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multiply. It's what allows us to take this one gold coin
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and turn it into 5 or turn it into 10.
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And here's the other thing. It really isn't the gift
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that you have. It's what you do with it. And that's the
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part of the parable that shifts everything. The master doesn't praise the servants
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for the size of their gift. He praises them for what they did with it.
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Well done, good servant. You have been faithful in this small
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matter, y'. All. It wasn't that gold coin that mattered.
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It was their faithfulness. It was that they took what they had been
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given and they used. Was their willingness to
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use what they had, even if it might have seemed small or ordinary.
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And so I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to sit
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with this. What is your gold coin?
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What is the gift God has placed in your hands,
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in your heart, in your life?
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What is the gold coin that he is asking you to use?
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Is it a gift of hospitality or encouragement?
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Is it one of teaching or creativity?
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Maybe it's stepping into leadership. Or do
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you have a tender heart that sees the person everyone else overlooks?
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Do you have a deep passion for helping women heal?
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Do you have a story that can set someone else free?
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Maybe you have a gift for connection or nurturing or listening.
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Maybe you're sitting there and you have a desire burning in your heart that
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just won't let go. Your gold coin
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doesn't have to be flashy. It just
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needs to be surrendered and used. Because
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gifts multiply through your action.
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When I think about my own gold coin like it has never been something.
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I mean, I think For a while, I thought it was like, kind of the
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outcomes that I had, right? So having a
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business and the number of clients I had or how
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much money my business made, like, I think about that. Like, that
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was the fruitfulness of it. But when I
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stop and I really think about. And this has come with.
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Really doing work to understand my strengths and my
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gifts and my talents and really stepping into
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the woman that God created me to be. Because I see this not
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just in my coaching business, but I see this
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gift play out in many, many different areas of my life. And I
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fully believe that my gold coin is connection.
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That God gave me a heart that can see people beneath the
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surface, to see their struggles,
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their desires, their fears, the things that
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they're longing for. And then he gave me a passion
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for encouraging women, for coaching women
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to help them heal their relationship with food in their body
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or rediscover who God created them to be. He gave me
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this passion for encouraging and coaching women to help them
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navigate those struggles, to help them discern their
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desires and overcome their fears.
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And, you know, for a long time, I hid that coin,
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y'. All. There are still days that I think about, what am
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I doing? Because this business thing isn't as easy as I thought it was going
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to be. And so there are times that I think about, all right, this is
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it. This is the last week I'm doing this. This is the last week I'm
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going to do the podcast. This is the last week that I'm going to
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post anything on social media. This is the last time I'm ever going to
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host this mini retreat. Because if I don't get what I want
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out of this, what is the point of it? And that
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is me completely missing the point of this gold coin.
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And when I. When I operate from that mindset, that is me hiding
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that coin. That is me letting fear freeze me.
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That is me letting fear convince
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myself that other people are more qualified to do this,
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that someone else is out there already saying it better than I am,
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that my voice isn't needed.
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But guys, in that moment, like, I have to
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stop and realize that those are lies of the
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enemy. Because if I really look at it and I think about, gosh, if I
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didn't have this coaching business, if I didn't try, if I didn't feel
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convicted in sharing this message with other women,
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what would I be doing? And the reality is,
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I would probably be sitting on my couch, binge watching Netflix,
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or sitting in a chair reading my Kindle 24 7,
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because y' all that is comfortable. It is so
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comfortable, right? If I just don't step into what
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God's calling me to, if I just don't use this gold coin, I can't be
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hurt. I can't look at it and say, wow,
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that didn't really go the way that I wanted to.
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So each day it's these moments of me
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making a choice. And this is your invitation to. This is your choice,
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too, to start using your gift,
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to do it imperfectly, to do it vulnerably, but
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to do it faithfully and letting God
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multiply it. I'm telling you this
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because I am one of those people who needs to hear
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this every day, that the gift that God has given
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you isn't a mistake. He gave it to you because someone
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needs what only you carry. Someone
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needs your gold coin. And when you use
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that gold coin, it is going to multiply, and it is going to be fruitful,
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and it is going to help someone else grow deeper. It's going
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to help someone else heal. It's going to encourage and empower someone
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else. And those are things that I need to hear.
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And so I believe that those are things that you need to hear, too.
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Because what happens when we use our gold coin, when we use our
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gifts, is that we bear fruit we could never manufacture on
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our own. We bless others in ways that we
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may never fully see. We
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step into the story that God prepared for us, and
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we experience more joy, more fulfillment, and
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a purpose that is aligned with God's will. We start
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to grow in courage and confidence, in clarity.
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We expand the kingdom of God not by simply striving
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on our own, but by obeying the Lord. And
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we fully become the woman that God created
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us to be.
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But when we hide our gifts, we shrink.
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We stagnate. We live in, like this Groundhog Day, where
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the same thing is over and over and over. We live
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lukewarm in our lives. We maybe start to feel
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restless. We don't feel like we have any clarity.
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We start to feel disconnected from purpose.
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And I think it leads our faith life to feeling muted and kind of flat.
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It leads to this feeling of heaviness. And maybe that's something that you're
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carrying around right now, but it's not heaviness
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from really doing too much, but it's, I think, really heaviness
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from not doing the thing that God is actually calling you to do,
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that we are always so caught up in the ways of the world.
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And what the world says is success, what the world says that we should be
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doing. And I am so convicted that
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that is what it feels so heavy. Because despite the fact that I just
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told you, there are days that it is really hard for me to continue to
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use this gold coin, to continue to try to have a
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business, it still is so much lighter than trying
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to live up to what the world is telling me I should be doing.
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And so I want you to pause here for a moment. And
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if you can, I want you to close your eyes and I want you
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to open your hands, hold them out. And I want you
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to imagine Jesus placing a gold coin in your hands.
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And he's standing in front of you and he is saying to you,
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daughter, engage in trade with this until I return.
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I have given you everything you need. I will be right
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here with you every step of the way. Now step
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into the story that I have written for you.
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Let the Holy Spirit speak to you in this moment.
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What is the gift?
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Where is he calling you to use it?
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What fears are holding you back?
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What is one tiny, faithful step you can take this week?
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Maybe it's just accepting the gift,
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recognizing the gift.
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Y', all, you cannot become the woman that God created you to be if you
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are hiding the very thing he entrusted to you.
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Your sacred story unfolds when you step forward in faith,
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when you use what God gave you, and when you stop
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waiting to feel ready, and when you start moving with
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faithfulness and obedience. This
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is where your identity, your mission, your passion and
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your all and your calling all come together and are fully
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alive. This is where your
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story meets God. Glory. God's glory, as cliche and cheesy
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as that sounds. So I'm going to ask you again.
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What are you doing with the gold coin Jesus has placed in your hands.
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The woman that God created you to be? The story he is inviting
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you to write the calling that he has prepared in advance for
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you. Y', all, none of it can unfold if you keep your gifts
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hidden. And
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so that's why this week I invite you to join me in the writing
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your sacred story mini treat, mini retreat. It is also
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a treat, but writing your sacred story mini retreat, getting
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divine direction for the upcoming year.
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It's a space for you to
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really lean into that holy nudge that you're feeling for more.
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It's for women who are ready to step out of fear, for women who are
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longing for clarity and courage and direction with God.
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It's about identifying your gold coin and then
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putting it to use. So if your heart has been
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whispering, lord, I want to use what you've given me, but I just don't know
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where to begin. Then this retreat is
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for you. In the one hour that we will spend together, we're
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going to walk through what your gold coin is, where God may be
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calling you to multiply it. How to stop hiding
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behind fear, perfectionism and comparison.
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Really be able to discern what the next steps in your sacred
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story might be. And how to start
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becoming the woman that God uniquely designed you to be.
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Y', all, you can't let another season go by hiding your gift. So come and
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join us and let God breathe clarity and purpose and
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courage into your next chapter. So join us
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for the mini retreat on Wednesday, December 10th. It's at 11am
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Central Standard Time via Zoom. You can find the link
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to register for it in the show description below.
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If you cannot attend live, there will be a replay that will be sent out.
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So make sure that you are registered so you can receive the replay.
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And and y', all, I cannot wait to walk with you, to pray with you,
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and to cheer you on as you discover your gold coin and
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put it to work for the Kingdom. So share this
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Episode Episode with a friend who needs this reminder to invite
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them to join us on the mini retreat this Wednesday, December 10,
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11am via Zoom. Registration link is in the show Descriptions
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I can't wait to see you inside the retreat. I pray that you have a
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beautiful and blessed week. Remember beauty held as a seed, beauty
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shared as a flower be it is your time to bloom.
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Take care and we'll talk soon.