How's it going, going great, going great, good day, good, are you back.
No, I'm still in Baton Rouge, I fly out tomorrow, late, late.
Okay, okay, oh wow.
Yeah, well I hope that goes good.
Does your husband go with you or does he still have stuff to do?
He still has stuff to do, the school round, and like I started volunteering, doing like reading volunteering, so like 30 minutes, helping kids learn how to read at a local school.
So I was like okay well I mean I know I needed to go back to that commitment, but I have a lot of festivities birthday festivities this weekend as well, like my dad and my nephew.
I was gonna have to come back.
Yeah.
Yeah, my, my dad and my sister have their birthdays next week so I guess it's just the time for birthdays.
Large birthdays, yes.
Birthdays what month were you born.
I'm August, the last day of August, August 31.
Barely squeezed it in.
How about you.
Mid May.
So yeah, yeah, so I am. Yeah, I, I've always liked the fact that I was born in May, it just always felt like lots of flowers and everything's new green and so anyway I was like, I was like that.
My, my parents were told by God when they were praying about me they were told May, so they thought that they were supposed to start trying in May.
And no God meant that I was gonna be born in May.
I came about nine months faster than they thought we were going to start trying.
That's.
Yeah, yeah.
So how's it been while you've been there.
It's been really good.
I'm like, like it's, it's going it's gel and even like when we talk about in our transformation session like I've seen improvement in that area. And so yeah, so I'm like, I'm really thankful.
Yeah. Good. That's super.
Well, I had the had the last rest group with the international group today.
This afternoon.
And so that was fun.
Enjoy getting together with them. And so I'll be uploading that recording, trying to remember some of the stuff that we talked about
about.
Well, some of it was just, I was mentioning is that you know it's just kind of like a theme recently just talking to everyone about just accepting themselves where it is that they are and it doesn't mean that you just didn't mean except, except being there means
that you accept yourself, instead of rejecting yourself. While you're feeling the way that you're feeling.
And just like okay well I'm mad, or I'm, I'm afraid or I'm whatever so we talked a bit about that because it came up in response to some of the stuff that they were talking about.
I talked about, you know, desires for like well Lord what is it that I'm going to do, what is it I'm going to do in business, and, and then how to kind of navigate that time, and one of the things that I encourage the men is specifically Annette because she was the one
that was bringing, bringing it up specifically. And that was just to just allow oneself to just to, to accept the, what feels like discontent to, to just accept that, that what may be going on is not necessarily discontent that we tend to like feel that we have
but rather and feel like oh I shouldn't feel like this is so different.
You know, this isn't Godly or whatever.
To understand that the discontent can be kind of like the process of having a baby where your body is changing so much and it feels like everything's wrong you know there's all the stretching and then there's all of the pain and then there's all the pressure and you're
on you know, you know, I know what it feels like to be me and feel like.
woman and this is not it, you know, this does not feel, feel, feel like the normal
thing.
And then afterwards you don't have it and you have the baby.
So, but it's like the, the middle part, you know, it just feels like, okay, it
feels like everything is going wrong.
And, and to, and that they say that the easiest, smoothest way to transition
through all of that is to just, is to just relax into it and to just allow your
body to take over and to do what it needs to do.
So I suggested, you know, kind of think navigating the transition of the unknown
in the same way as, and to know that the disc can, what we're labeling so often
as discontent is, um, is not always, uh, is not always our resistance to and
rebellion against something that God is doing or our circumstances or whatever.
Sometimes it's just simply us being aware, like our spirit being aware that
we were meant for more, that we were meant to exfil more, we were meant to
expand into more, there's something else, or there's something it's like
anticipating that something is coming, but it's not here yet.
And so you're feeling that disconnect.
They, they, for instance, say that a lot about people that, um, can see
that, uh, that are, um, uh, very prophetic, you know, because they, they
struggle with the fact that they're in a particular existence and they see
particular things happening in time.
And yet it's like their spirit is aware of, of something that God
intends for this to change into.
And to hold both at the same time, to hold what is with what, um, either
with what is possible or with what will be in the future is very challenging.
And it's something that God actually entrusts people that have a prophetic
gift with is to be able to hold both at the same time.
And so that is, is a bit of a struggle in the middle of like unknowns of like,
okay, Lord, I am, I'm feeling, you know, I'm wanting to start a business or I'm
wanting to move into X, Y, and Z, but I'm not there yet and I don't even know
what it is, or maybe I do know what it is, but no matter what I'm doing, it's
just not happening yet, or Lord, why isn't it now, why is it always later?
Or whatever it is that we're questioning.
It's that in between time just feels like a lot of pressure, feels like a lot of
pain, feels a lot, you know, a lot of, um, uh, just a lot of stretching of
boundaries and just, and, and, and for us to just consider that.
So I was suggesting that it will go through faster and more, more smoothly,
and that you'll hear God more clearly.
If you just relax and let go and understand, no, this means that
God is answering my heart's cry.
The fact that there is this pressure, the fact that there's this stretching
fact that there is this pain, because this is the, this is the process that
everything in me has to go through to make room for the thing that I've asked
God for.
So this is like, as opposed to us being condemning of ourselves or being
accusatory of the Lord of like, it shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't feel
like this.
Well, no, this isn't where you're going to stay.
It's not where you're going to end up.
This is the transition from what was, which couldn't hold the new thing
to actually birthing the new thing.
So anyway, um, but we were talking about stuff like that.
That's really good.
I feel like that's so timely to like where I am.
And I feel like I definitely have a little bit more peace and like rest about
maybe, I don't know the process.
I was so like, like, you know, unhealthily urgent before about like, okay.
It needs to manifest.
But I think you said something on one.
Oh, I think it was our last one.
You said, yeah, I know that I wanted or was going to travel, but it was like,
God kind of put something in me that it was the time and confirmed it with like
my mom or your parents or something that it was like the time for it to start.
And so that's the thing I was like, Hmm, that's interesting.
Like, I think that's like a key for me because it's like, I feel like I'm in
this season of waiting.
I've been in this season of waiting and I'm trying to make it, make it happen.
Like, you know, my own self, you know?
And so instead of just being like, Lord, you know, the perfect timing, I'm just
going to just rest in you, you know, focus on you.
And when it's time, you'll open those doors that need to be open.
Like, instead of like, instead of being mad because you're like, it didn't happen
yet, you know, like, so I don't, I felt like, okay, like I can, and I'm like,
Lord, if it's just not right now, you'll show.
me the time. So I think what you what you just said, and what
Annette was going through, because I remember her
mentioning that before in a journey share, like, I was like,
Oh my god, yeah, like, I got so get that. So I appreciate you
saying what you just said right now, because I feel like that's
even an answer to prayer. Oh, good. And like, really, like
pondering that type of thing as well. So I'll go back and
listen to her listen to that one as well. Okay, good.
Good. That's helpful. Yeah, super helpful. Yeah. Yeah. And
because that really will help settle everything in you down.
And if you're going through like the struggle emotionally, you
know, that I've gone in that I've been in, where you're just
like, you know, it, you haven't gotten to the new thing, and you
don't know what he what it even is. And it's like, you just know
that where it is, isn't it? And where you are, isn't it? And,
and so there's this frustration. And you're like, Lord, I was
meant for more, or I don't, I don't feel like this is what
it's supposed to be. And everybody keeps telling me that
this is all I should expect, or that this is the answer to my
question. And I'm like, Lord, I don't know why. But this isn't
it. And I feel that you have a different answer. But I don't
know what that is, either. You know, it's like, because I
haven't seen it. I just know that whatever it is that I have
seen is not what I'm supposed to step into. You know, case in
point, when I was going through in order to that, what I was
going through in the in the process of finally getting to
starting the rest intensive is there was always something in me
that knew that whatever it was I was doing, it wasn't it. And
then people would talk about how they were doing business. And I
was trying to figure and I would be in business. And I'm going,
No, no, God means for it to be very different. But I didn't
know how. I didn't know how I was supposed to look if it
wasn't supposed to look like this. But in the spirit, I'm
like, No, this does not feel right. This is all I've ever
seen. This is all anything that anybody that I've ever known,
even all the Christians, this is how they do it. In fact, this is
how they do it in the biblical sense. This is how they do it in
the Christian sense. And even those things I'm sensing in the
spirit are not quite what I am feeling in my in my spirit is
possible. And it's what God means, you know, is I would just
frustrated because I'm just like, Lord, can I just never be
satisfied? Can I am I just blind? Do I think that I just
know better than everybody else and everybody else's solutions
just aren't good enough. I'm just like, Lord, is there some
and I would just move into the self condemning place. And what
ended up happening is because I just I just followed my spirit
just follow what it felt like the Lord was telling me. And I
was like, Okay, well, then how would that look? And okay, well,
let's try this. And let's see if this matches and I would just
try new things. And so what ended up happening is I
basically created something that I'd never seen. Now technically,
you can look at it and you can say, Oh, yeah, mentorship
programs exist. And yeah, they do. They do, you know, one on
one times coaching times with people. And yeah, they do. They
do online teachings that they post and they whatever, but I
didn't really, um, I got some general ideas of some idea, some
things I could do. But the overall idea of what it is that
I formed, I just formed without just just because it just felt
right. Not because I was following a specific program
where the coaches were saying, this is how you do what you're
wanting to do. This is the structure that we've noticed
works. So adopt this structure. I didn't I just kind of created
my own little thing based off of what it what fell in my spirit
was right. And then I got it. And I'm like, Oh, my word, this
is it. But though I will tell you that as, as, um, as some of
my friends, you know, have heard me say many, many, many times is
you know, I'm always I'm always trying to the rest intensive
almost never looks the same from one intensive to the next. And
just because I'm always changing some aspect of it, some
of the structure, whatever, because I'm always trying to
improve on its effectiveness, to help people understand to help
people get it faster to help it, like really have power in their
lives and whatever, and help them receive what it is that
they need and whatever. So even that structure is always kind of
changing. But I feel like I'm doing it a bit more from the
father heart that I've always knew was there, that I could
never see an example of. But anyway, my point is to say all
that to encourage you, if you say that any of this is
resonating, that just just follow just follow your spirit
and don't get concerned, or frustrated and therefore be in
resistance against your process, because just know that those are
the things in you all the pressure, all of the stretching,
all the whatever are the things in you that are needing to shift
to make the
boom. So all of that has to move. It has to be an
unalignment because it's going in through a process of getting
into alignment. So until it's in alignment, it's an
unalignment, but it's shifting, you know. So anyway, I just
encourage you to just accept the fact that, okay, you know, I'm
just in process. And this is what in process of God answering
my prayer feels like. This is it. I'm doing it. He's
answering. You just don't know what the answer is going to
look like. But you know, God is, you know, your father is a good
father that is answering your prayer that is answering your
heart's cry. You know, no question, his promise, his
guarantee. You just don't know what the answer is. You don't
know what the answer to your real heart's cry truly is. And
he does. Anyway, so just know and be comforted by the fact
that it's not going wrong. It's going right. And then you can
kind of relax into the pressure, into the pain, into the
stretching and just know, oh, this is it. And as opposed to
the more pain that we get, simply by the fact that we're
resisting it, that creates greater pain, that makes
everything harder. And so if you just relax into it and allow
all of this discombobulation to happen, then know, okay, it's
working. I am it, I am where I had asked God to be, where he's
making a way and he's causing it to happen. And he's moving
everything in me and in my circumstances to allow that
thing to be burgeoned to come forth. So anyway, for what I'm
referring to that is it helps me. I mean, like literally my my
emotions, you know, like, for instance, when I talk about like
when I accept myself, and like, okay, well, I'm just mad right
now or whatever, I'll drop from an intensity of a 10 to a one,
the same thing with this, if I'm like, Oh, my word, Lord, you
know, why can't I figure this out? Or why can't I find a
solution to this or whatever? Or like, okay, actually, this
unknown, this what I call what I label as chaos, or whatever, is
actually me, it actually means it's working. I, I'm in it. I'm
there, I'm doing the thing. And so it's like, Oh, okay, so this
is all this is, this is it. This is what I've asked for. This is
the process. And so always remember that this is something
that someone told me and that that just absolutely rocked my
world. I did not understand it when they said it and the Lord
is even still teaching me more what it means. But things are
birthed when you move through chaos in rest. So chaos has to
exist. And in order for something to be birthed,
something is birthed through chaos, but only when you move
through the chaos and rest, if you move through chaos and chaos,
it can't be birthed, or it's birthed as a very mutated,
corrupted form. And it's not beautiful and peaceful, and it's
spiritually healthy. But if you moved, and it's also, it's not
the spirit. So therefore, it's not eternal. So therefore, it's
going to burn as wood, hay and stubble. But if you move through
chaos in rest, then that which is of spirit can now be born
into the earth. You know, and that's how your how your
business can be born. That's how can our relationship can be
born. That's how, how conflict and relationship can be resolved
is when you're moving through chaos in the spirit of rest.
That's the channel, so to speak. That's the way through which the
spirit can enter the earth and transform it. So just FYI, chaos
must be an existence. It doesn't mean something's wrong. It has
to be there. And you're meant to move through it and rest in
order for something to be birthed. So don't think it's
bad.
So anyway,
that's so good, because I've been like, just sometimes I just
like, well, I just expect it to be like, I don't want the chaos
to be there. But knowing that that's a part of the norm, but
like walking in it and rest is the key to it being birthed is
like, thank you. And I just I got reminded me to was like,
during I guess it was part it was during the pandemic. My boss
was out on maternity leave, Rita knows the story. And then my
co AP, she was on maternity leave too. And I was running the
school all by myself. And it was like, look, granny, I work long
hours and all of that. But it was just like smooth. It was
just like, that's right. It was just I was like, Oh my god. And
I mean, I was like, ready for them to come back. Because like,
I was like, it was it was, it was tiring, but it wasn't like,
God will wake me up at a certain amount. He will wake me up in
just enough time for me to do everything I
needed to do like from three to six or whatever in order to get
to work to go do a full day's work. But it was just like it
was smooth. You know what I mean? Like, and then someone
that I really respected one of the coaches she was like, after
she was like, you did it. And she just was like, I will work
for you like someone like my boss. It's like we all was like
she's Bob, you know what I mean? Yes. It is so God like to be
able to like there was such a testimony to his goodness, you
know, um, so I it just was like, I'm like, he's reminding
me like, you've been through that before. Yeah. So like,
thank you. That's really good. So now I can like put those
together.
Good. Yeah, that's great. So I just wanted to be encouraged
that things are going that where it is that you are and how hard
it is hard. It's feeling how hard it is feeling is that as
you walking through is walking towards the thing that you're
wanting. Now, again, what that looks like, it's up to the Lord,
you know, God that God's responsible for the outcome, but
that that it's not like, Oh, my word, it feels uncomfortable.
Therefore, it must be wrong. Therefore, I must have gotten
off track somewhere. Therefore, I might not be hearing God, you
know, we go to all of these dark places. And, and so God's just
like, No, just look for me. Just look for me. Remember, he
doesn't say find me. He said, seek me in men, he will reveal
himself. Remember, he reveals himself, we can't, we can't find
him outside of his will. He is the one who reveals but he
reveals as a response to us seeking. So you're not
responsible for finding him. You're responsible for seeking
him and he in response will reveal. So pressures off. You
just do you just go through this process and don't think
that Oh, my word, I haven't gotten it yet. I'm probably
missing him somewhere. Just keep your heart and your spirit open
like, okay, Lord, you know, I trust that you're going to show
me because Lord, you reveal things. You say it, you know,
that it's that it's for me to seek out. And for me to like,
for me to, what does it say to, I don't know to, I can't
remember the Bible verse right now. But anyway, it's a bit to
that it's a good thing to be to be seeking and to be discovering
and to be looking for. But it's God, he will reveal himself not
it's not your it's not your responsibility to find him. Just
just be responsible, look for him, he'll reveal himself, it's
all okay. And just know that the fact that this feels
uncomfortable, unknown, chaotic, uncertain is the thing. That's
where this will all be birthed from. You just can't see it. So
you have to have faith that while stuff is going on that
you're like, I don't understand to death fate that no, this is
God moving. I just don't. I just can't see where it's going. But
just keep at it. You know, keep seeking him and just keep, you
know, whatever, just keep your heart open. And they eat. And
another thing to that makes it easier to hear the Lord is to
release, you know, we keep talking about releasing things
and letting go, whatever, is to release a specific answer from
the Lord and to emotionally release him from the obligation
of giving you a specific answer. Like, okay, God, you can get you
can have me do whatever it is you want me to do. You can cause
the outcome to be whatever it is, whether you want me to go
back to being a teacher and assistant principal, or if you
want me to go, or if you want me to do a brand new industry
altogether, or if you want me to do like, you know, something
from home and have my own business or have my own ministry
or do whatever, whatever it is, Lord, I finally emotionally
release you have the obligation of, of it being a specific
answer. You know, you because saying, God, I'll let you do
whatever isn't the same thing. Because that's like, no, I'm
going to hold on to this and God, you can rip it from my
hands if you want to. That's what I'm allowing. You know,
instead of saying, God, you can't we're like, well, okay,
no, God, you can take it from me if you want. That's my
permission. And God's like, No, I'm not going to take it. You
have to surrender it, you have to pick it up, put it down, give
it to me, let go and walk away. He said that is surrender.
That's what Abraham did. He brought it to me and let it go.
So that I won't come get it. So we have a different idea
under, we haven't understood that that's what's true
surrender is we keep saying a lot of surrenders. I've allowed
God, you know, I told God, you can have it. And so and so, you
know, this
It's just kind of, it's still the way it is,
and God hasn't changed anything,
but I told him he could if he wanted.
And God's like, no, I'm not going to rip it from you.
I'm not going to take it from you.
I need you, I'm asking you to entrust me
by with action on your faith that I'm good
by actually leaving it with me,
as opposed to God, you can take it.
So anyway, just FYI,
that will also help you hear God more clearly about,
Lord, what direction should I take?
If you emotionally release, whatever, release the answer,
which is hard, because we're like,
I know that I have these desires
and I'm holding before the Lord or whatever.
You can still want something
without emotionally obligating God to it.
In other words, emotionally accusing him of not doing it
and getting mad at him or thinking he's not good
if he gives you a different answer.
That's the issue.
It's emotionally holding God hostage
to giving you what you want.
That is what we have to emotionally let go of.
We have to emotionally release God from the outcome.
So anyway, okay, well, sorry, everybody.
I know it's rest period time,
but Tammy and I were the only ones off a little bit.
So we just started talking.
And I needed to wrap it up.
So to make sure we fully talked about the subject,
y'all know me, I'm nothing if not thorough.
So full context.
Okay, so I will jump off and let y'all chat
and I'll be back in a bit.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Appreciate that.
You're welcome.
Hey.
Hello.
Hi, Tammy.
Hi, Rita.
How y'all doing?
Good, a little tired.
A little tired, yeah.
Have you been getting good rest, Karen?
Not so good rest at night.
So keep being in agreement with me for that.
However, because of the stuff we're doing
and I feel like actually my back is doing better.
I've had kind of a sciatic issue
for the last several weeks, weeks,
maybe the whole six weeks we've been meeting
and it's feeling better.
I got a massage today and there wasn't a lot,
a little bit of stuff going on, but also my adrenals,
which I think have been kind of down for a while,
probably due to my not sleeping real well.
And I worked nights for like 10 years,
way back in the 80s.
So I developed a habit.
We won't call it bad right now
because we'll just call it a habit of staying up late.
So I just started about a year ago
wanting to change that
and working with a naturopathic doctor.
So I'm trying to just like Ashley said,
just be easy on myself and not get frustrated.
And if I wake up, it's okay.
And so even the last few nights,
maybe last night was a tad better,
but I was waking up a lot,
but I'm trying to just stay, okay, God.
You know, I just kind of pray
and sometimes pray in the spirit.
And sometimes I listened to a couple of ministers
that have real relaxing voices that put me back to sleep.
But my adrenals were back today.
My massage therapist checked them
because they'd been down for several weeks.
They were back to being okay today and thyroid.
So that made me feel good in that when they're,
you know, you just feel a little more like yourself
and yeah, and real estate's been a little busier,
but it's been okay.
I finally had two closings last week
that seemed like they took forever, but yay.
Actually, these were my first closings of the year,
you guys.
My January closings got put off till the end of March.
And so at least they're coming,
but I had no closings for January or February.
So I had two last week and I got a blessing today.
An old friend of mine is going to,
should all work out, buy a property to flip.
And he just called me about a week ago or so.
And I found him a pretty high end, kind of a higher end flip
and it's cash and it's closing in one week.
So now I have another closing in one week.
We're awesome.
Yeah, I just got that all together today.
And the dentist has been a,
This has been a tough thing for me.
I just had some dental pain when I was young,
and I've been trying to work through that.
And I didn't go to the dentist for two years
because I was so, I felt like I had so much stress
from me and the marriage and all kinds,
I just couldn't handle one more thing.
So I finally went in the fall,
and then he said I needed a crown.
And I was like, oh my God, a crown, that takes time.
And so my girlfriend actually went and prayed
in the spirit with me the whole time I got a crown.
Oh, that's great.
And yeah, and then I took some natural herbs
that helped a little, but I lived, I made it through it.
And I had to go back today
because I had a little bit of a sensitivity on that crown,
but I think it's, he just ground,
so I went back today and he ground it down a little bit.
But I mean, yeah, I don't know why,
but it's just been a process getting through this
dental stuff and the anxiousness.
And so part of the process, I guess,
but overall, yeah, it was really good news
that my adrenals were better today
and that my back felt better.
So that just felt like some progress, you know?
And Ken and I have been spending some time together,
but I had my session with Ashley yesterday
and it went really well.
And she had some advice about that
and that was phenomenal, you know?
And then the stuff that you all just,
she just talked about Tammy was wonderful.
It was really helpful, I think, to all of us, I'm sure.
You know, we get to lead these outcomes up to God.
And so I think I was starting to be more relaxed with Ken,
just, you know, I can't control anything, right?
And so,
so yeah, you know, it just, it's a,
this has been really good.
This has been really good.
And then there's a conference this weekend at Cedar Creek.
I don't know if you heard, but there's four speakers,
but the guy coming, the main speaker,
Ashley just told me yesterday,
he's the man that married Ashley.
He's coming to Cedar Creek and Ashley wanted to come,
but she had something else going on this weekend,
but she's going to see him somewhere else, I think,
because he's from out of the, he's from England, I think.
So I get a little, I mean, I drive back and forth
because it's only 40 minutes from my house.
My friends own, it's a beautiful resort.
It's 200 acres with a big old lake
and there's so many angels there and these cabins
and that's where I got married.
And I've known the owner since they bought the,
before they bought it,
but it's just easier for me to drive home
and sleep in my own bed.
So, but it'll be, it's Thursday night,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning.
So it'll be a little break.
And we had a lot of conferences out there
the last five, six years.
Oh my gosh, they've brought so many awesome people.
This is where I got introduced to so many different things
to, I don't know if y'all ever heard of Nancy Cohen.
She's been out here like 10 times,
but so many different things and that has,
and my mentors, I met my mentors there
and that's where Ashley, I met Ashley.
That's where Ashley taught this conference,
was it Cedar Creek?
Oh, yeah.
So that's where I met her two years ago.
And so anyway, looking forward to that,
even though it'll be a little,
you know, it's time driving and time there and everything.
And, but, and with Ken, I just told him about it
and I'm like, you know, if you want to,
if you want to come or if you want to come
for a meeting or a day, it's only like $25,
but it's like, you know what?
At this point, I don't even really care if he comes.
Isn't that good?
Yeah.
I don't even, you know, I don't even care.
And to tell you the truth, yeah, you know,
and then next weekend we actually have another conference,
two in a row, who's a local guy, friend of mine,
and they call him the psalmist.
And he was there in the fall.
And we just said that it was like family.
We set up couches and he worships and he teaches.
And then we just sit around and talk about it like a family.
We even played games.
And I mean, it was like, it's,
so we're going to have another one.
So I have two weekends in a row of this.
And, you know, if Ken doesn't come,
you know, might be better.
Might be better that way.
I don't know.
His daughter's coming to the next weekend.
She's, her and I are real close.
And she went to the one with me in the fall.
But anyway, so it's a better place,
much better place to be than going,
oh, I wonder if he's coming or he should come or, you know.
Worried about what he's doing.
And so, even our session yesterday helped some with that, and, and he got a new job
a week ago, I think I might have mentioned that to you all but now the blue he just,
and I had prayed for him.
My mentor said, she said she prayed for her husband to get a dream job.
Years back when he needed a job is she like the Lord had her like step into heaven he's
like you're seated in heaven and he gave her the strategy, and he got a dream job.
I mean like he's still doing it by mentor.
So I've kind of prayed that for Ken and all of a sudden he got this job that he really
likes it, and it's laid back, and he quit his other part time job and he got another
part time job that he can do whatever he wants to do, do it.
So last weekend he worked all week, and he ended up working all weekend.
And you know what, I was like, Okay, you know, I didn't.
I told Ashley it was kind of a win because he was only going to work half a day Sunday
to do some media work for he used to have his own marketing company, and it was going
to do so he was, it was actually on the news Sunday night for, for this new job, but he
called and said I think I'm going to be here all day and all evening till kind of late
tonight and I was like, Okay, you know, in the past I would have been what, because we
were supposed to do something that's just like okay.
And so, so I found it, you know, and then Monday he something happened and I started
to respond wrong I reacted, but I quickly turned it around to responding differently.
So I'm just seeing some progress.
You know, and that I don't like this is so good we don't have to.
We leave the outcome up to God.
You know.
And the good thing is that I'm seeing more and more as he's working things out of me
through all the stuff going on in my life, started to see it even more.
And through this relationship.
He's working things out of me.
So the outcome isn't even as important as, okay, God, I'm just looking at you trying
to look at you and what are you doing with me.
And you know, what are you, what are you trying to work out of me and so, so I'm just so grateful
that we've had this time together.
Yes.
Yeah, I know we're gonna miss it.
So go ahead, or, huh, what, or community day.
That's right.
Are you going to get us together Tammy?
Yes, Tammy.
Okay, well, I'll just say tag you're it Rita.
Okay.
Um, well, that's all good stuff, Karen.
I love that.
Yeah.
And letting, letting, letting things go and, and just leaving it to God for the outcome.
So with me, I don't really have anything to report.
I feel like I'm so bogged down with work that when I look up, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
look for you guys.
And, and like, he, you know, he gives me a little gift, but I really need to, you know,
see it in my, in the things that I'm doing.
Again.
I know.
I don't know if it's just because I'm just used to it, or I don't know.
I mean, I think I'm not stressed out like I used to be, but it's just kind of, I guess
the norm now.
So I don't know if it's supposed to be better.
I mean, I'm just glad, you know, I'm not stressed and stuff, but I'm like, well, what else is
there Lord?
So, um, but yeah, I, yeah, I don't have a lot to report.
I had my son last weekend and I did pray that like, I had a better relationship with him
and not trying to teach him so much.
I know Ashley's like, don't try to teach people.
You have to be the thing and, um, and notice I wasn't react, I don't know, it was just,
it's just kind of silly.
Like he's a boy and I try to play with him and I'm like, he's being too rough and instead
of like communicating, I just got upset.
I got triggered.
Like, all right, you're throwing the ball too hard.
And then I just got upset and then I snapped out of it and I was like, okay, Lord, I need
to learn to communicate and not just be upset.
And I just, you know, just let him know, um, you know, that, that I.
but oh, I apologize for getting upset.
And I told him I needed to communicate
how I was feeling before he just reacted.
So I guess it's, you know, it's humbling
and it's good that I didn't let it linger
and, you know, affect our relationship, I guess.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think it's a win just, yeah.
Cause then we just kind of avoid each other
for a little bit and then, you know,
feelings are just kind of under the surface,
but cause I was able to just,
I guess the Lord helped me recognize it
right then and there.
But other than that, I feel like everything's good.
Yeah, that's it.
That was good.
That was big.
That's a big win, really.
I've been one thing, I've been trying to thank the Lord.
I don't do it every day, but thank him trying to do it.
Thank you for sweet surprises today, Lord, from you.
And that one thing Ashley reminded me,
you were, I think we were in one group.
She said, you know, you may ask the Lord
to show you his love and he may show it to you
with a postman knocking on your door.
And, you know, and you know what?
He knocked on the door yesterday
while I was in my session right here, I'm in my sunroom.
And he came in the door while I was on session with her
and he comes in quite a bit
cause I have him come in my sunroom.
But yeah, but it reminds me, like twice he did that.
It just reminded me, God shows his love in many ways.
So asking for sweet surprises daily,
I think has been, is good.
Maybe something, Lord help, remind us to just thank you
for those sweet surprises if we're supposed to do that.
Cause he is a good father.
He is.
So yeah, Rita, that was a good win.
Thank you.
And I like your Texas shirt.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, Oasis.
Oh, Oasis, that's a good color on you.
Thanks.
I like it.
Thank you.
Yeah, I've been asking God, like that's the thing too,
is like, I guess when I'm in Louisiana, I eat the best food.
So like, just as like a connection to Rita,
like in what you were saying, Karen,
about like the sweet experiences or like a sweet moment.
And so like my husband, he loves crawfish
and like, I love it too now.
And so we went back to this one place,
we ate it like two lunches in a row.
And the second lunch, we went by this beautiful pond
with these old homes, like back bar.
Like the light was glistening off of the pond
and there were like, it was nature, the sun was gorgeous.
I was like, thank you God for taste buds,
for great company.
Thank you for, you know, like this beautiful scenery.
And just like, it's just kind of like a different way.
Like, you know, we used to like say, you know,
some people might still do it.
I'm not really good at it anymore,
but like saying grace before every meal,
but just kind of like, thank you.
Let's just eat this together.
You know what I mean?
And so just thinking about those,
they're small things, but they're like really big things
and they just make me really happy.
So I'm like, thank God for taste buds.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
No doubt.
Yeah.
Asking God today for, it's kind of a praise point.
I was asking God today,
cause like, I feel like I'm always asking him questions
and like, okay, like, well, what do I do with this?
Or like, this is a concern, but I'm like,
I just felt like it's kind of one-sided.
So today I was like, well, Lord,
is there anything I could do for you today or whatever?
And it was so cool, y'all, let me tell you what happened.
So I got texts from this lady asking if I wanted to,
if I was available to serve at the children's ministry
at the church where I attend here and there, right.
And like the first, it's like, it's such a God thing
because like, it was a God appointment
that I met her in the first place
and sat next to her that time.
And you know, it has like that five minutes
of just sharing or whatever,
or like right before they do offering and everything.
And so she told me and I just expressed like,
you know, like, yeah, I have real hard for kids,
yada, yada, yada.
And so she was like, well,
we need help in the children's ministry.
So anyway, I filled out the background check thing
and signed everything and sent it to the youth pastor
who she had connected me with,
but I hadn't heard anything and I wasn't stressing about it.
But anyway, she reached out to me today like,
hey, do you have availability March 12th?
And I was like,
I was like, before I replied, I remembered that I was going to do, my sister and I are
doing a birthday dinner with, well, birthday outing with my dad at Topgolf on the 12th.
So I knew what that day looked like, but I was like, just, my dad hadn't seen me at the
time.
So I called him and I was like, hey, dad, like, do you have any idea about what time?
Because I want to make sure that I'll be able to go to church before, but I think, you know,
you're going to church anyway, so it should be okay.
And he told me all the greatest story.
Like he told me about a little bit about like his conversion.
He said that he got saved by reading the, at the end of the back of the Gideon Bible,
it tells you how to receive Christ or something.
He said he did that and that's how he received Christ.
And then he said, like, I remember him saying like, he was kind of upset with God because
like, I think he was like maybe 23, but he had gone to church before when he was younger
with his mom, but no one had actually told him.
That's what it was.
And so he was like, what if I had passed away?
Like, he was so upset that like no one had really offered him or told him about how to
receive Christ.
And so God, he's like, God, you know, was kind of like, okay.
And after a while I was like, okay, I understand you're mad with me.
That's okay.
So go do something about it.
Like tell other people.
And so that's how he felt like he got the call to the children's ministry.
And so he like got connected with a church and this guy took him under his wing and he
started serving in that church.
And then when we went to Oklahoma, the mother and pastor of the church kind of ended up
being like my grandparents, so to speak, like my old grandparents, whatever.
And they asked like, hey, do you want to, how do you want to be, like, how do you want
to serve or is your call?
He's like, I've been called to the children's, to children.
And so she sent him to like Willie George Ministries, which is all the curriculum and
the songs that they use to start the children's ministry at the church that I grew up with,
like so impactful in my life.
Like, sorry, I'm getting really excited.
Let me pause.
So anyway, so then I'm just like, oh my God, I didn't know that.
He was like, yeah.
And I was like, that is so cool.
And I was just like, the call is generational.
Like it's like a family legacy.
I feel like I know God has planted that in my heart.
And I've been burnt out so much for the last year just as an educator.
And this time has just been great.
Like my year of jubilee just to rest.
It's like that desire has just been bubbling.
And so I was like so excited to like hear my dad's testimony.
And then he was talking about my little sisters, which is a whole little story, but like five
and eight or some crazy thing.
So anyway, he was telling me about how he like one of them was like that.
I want to be baptized.
Like he was like, I'm just go talk to your go talk to your sister, to your to the lady
at church or whatever at Children's Church to see if she's told you about what baptism
was.
And he hadn't done it for a couple of weeks.
And then a little one who's five was like, Dad, have you talked to KK's teacher yet?
Because I mean, I want to be baptized too.
I want to be to church too, because he had explained to them, they're like, when you
receive Christ, it's not like you, you are the church you don't go to is not the church
is not the church building.
He goes, and I was like, well, my five year old little sister, my son, I want to be to
church.
Like, it's just like, to me, it's just so exciting.
It's just like, so full circle.
And I'm just like, look at God, I'm just so thankful for him putting that in my heart
in just reestablishing that.
And before was just so much about like, educating kids in the school system was like, I want
to do something for kids in the kingdom, you don't mean to like, so that was like, my testimony
today.
So I was like, Oh, how can I What can I do for you today?
And I know he didn't like half day, like somebody he's gonna have sign up and step up.
And I was just like, you want me to do that?
Okay, I'm so excited.
Thank you.
Anyway, that's what's up.
I love it.
That is really cool.
Tammy.
Thank you.
So exciting.
I'm really excited.
As you can tell.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Oh, yeah.
God, that's a sweet surprise.
It really is a sweet surprise.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, kind of legacy.
Like you said, that's, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's been great this last month, I decided to just give it to God and not try to like,
dictate what this time needed to look like and what I needed to accomplish.
It's been so life giving.
But yeah, I'm glad like, I've learned so much and developed over this time.
And he's restored that desire to like, want to get back and start working and doing things.
And you know what I mean?
Like, the before I was just do I want to be a substitute teacher because that allowed me
to go back and forth with my husband about Rouge, but I was like, income like, so I just
started looking at LinkedIn.
It just.
jobs, like there's so many remote jobs. And I'm like, I
Yeah.
have the skill set for that, you know what I mean, where I can
make more money. And then what what Ashley was talking about,
like, my thing is just to been, well, you know, if I'm doing
substitute, I'm going to make a minimal type of thing of salary
amount of money, but I have a lot of flexibility. But if I do
this remote thing, where it's full time work, this gets paid
good money, then it's like all of these dreams and plans and
business ideas, I'm like, well, I have the time. So I'm like,
God, I give it to you, I'm going to apply, you're going to open
the door that needs to be open, close the door that needs to be
shut. And it's going to be good. And all in your due time,
everything's going to work out. So I'm just going to have that
perspective towards it all.
That's really good. That's really good. And yeah. And I'm,
I'm going to be in agreement. We're all going to start
dreaming again. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And I felt like I kind of had a
new a new pep in my step yesterday. And Ashley's meeting
was really helpful. I don't know something. And just feeling a
little better. I went for a walk and I went to physical therapy
and got a good report there got a good report. And so my massage
therapist and taking more time to take care of me.
That's good.
Slowly, but yeah. Yeah.
Fabulous, too. I'm like, I wanted to tell you when you got
on. I was like, okay, cute.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And this is even after a
massage, but I washed it today. I did wash and style it. I've
kind of got the I kind of like the fluffy. It's just naturally
curly, which is nice. And I just do a lot of
do a little work on it. And, and, yeah, and then I pull it up
in a clip a lot too. When it when I wake up and it's kind of
flat. I'm just like, okay, or I'm a hat girl too. I have
bling hats. I don't know if you've seen my bling hat. I wear
bling hats. Yeah.
Huh? Are they ball caps? Yeah, I like ball caps. Yep.
Hmm.
And like, like, like rhinestones and stuff. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm, yeah, I'm a bling. I like bling. I don't know what it
was just a few years ago. I started buying bling. I got
bling on my glasses.
I was just poking out. I didn't know it was bling.
Oh, yeah, they're called Jimmy crystals or crystals. And they're
from New York. And they had they had these on sale even. And
yeah. So bling. Yeah. So we might as well shine right inside
and out. That's, that's my motto.
I've been seeing articles and like all kinds of things about
light and shining today. Like it's crazy. Like, like a news
article and other stuff. Like I'm just like, oh, and so now
you're saying it. Yeah. So good about it.
Yeah, I have a lot of Mariana jewelry, too. You can't see
these real well. But all of her stuff Mariana if you look it up,
it's all from Israel. And all of her stuff I have. It's just a
real blingy stuff. It's all of her stuff is guaranteed for
life. If so, if a stone falls out, you take it back where you
bought it, they send it to Israel, fix it and send it back.
Wow. For free. So it's gonna it's not that expensive, but
her stuff's fun. Mariana, it's all over. It's in every town.
Or you can look online. But anyway, I don't know what got me
started a few years ago on bling, but but it's what did I
heard one lady, they talked to a lady that turned 100. And she
said, What's your secret to living a long time? And she
said, Well, I get up every day and I put on a little makeup and
I put on some jewelry.
And yeah, doing the things that make you feel good and joyful.
Yeah. I don't know who that lady is. But I love her. I agree.
That's my secret to long life. Determine that I get up every
morning. Since I was 13 years old, but on makeup, but I'm
sorry. And I'm like, I'm ready. Even when I'm sick. It makes me
feel better. And I swear that I get I get well faster. I'm
telling you.
There you go. I wear my earrings. I wear to go walking.
I've got on my bling when I go. Oh, yeah. Sometimes I have on
bling rings. I Yeah, yeah. My husband's really sweet. He'll
say, actually, you do know that you don't have to do that for
me. And I'm like, Oh, I know. You assured me that I feel very
secure that I really appreciate it. I do it for me. This is how
I like me. You know, I have it has to have a friend and that in
ministry and he's probably I think he's in his 70s, maybe
close to 80s now. And he was in even in the summer, he will
dress in
Um, he's very well trimmed, you know, white hair, beard, you know, mustaches,
they're goatee mustache and all that. He's got, he's very well, you know,
quaffed, you know, trimmed. I know that's not a word that you use for, for guys. He's just,
you know, very immaculate. And he, um, and he's just like this big papa bear,
you know, he looks like a Christian Santa Claus. Like in other words, like, I mean,
not that your Santa Claus, you know, is bad. I'm just saying, but it's like, Christian isn't like,
he just looks like, I don't know, like a combination between Jesus and Santa Claus.
And he wears these pullover, uh, sweater vests, you know, the ones that have a V neck,
you know, when to wear them over, you know, uh, you know, button down shirts and everything.
And then his slacks that I'm telling you what, he just looks so fit together.
Where's it even in the summer. And you said, and you told my husband, you said, do you know why
I dress like this? Because I like this and God likes how he made, how he made me. And he,
and he made me like this. God is very pleased when he looks on me like this, because I'm happy.
He said, I don't care if other people think it's weird. If other people don't understand and other
people don't like how I dress, I like how I dress. I'm like, amen. You are now my favorite person.
I think that's fun. And now I'm going to have to look at Marian jewelry.
Y'all are all talking my language, all of the stuff, but I was excited to hear everybody's
wins, all of this stuff that y'all have noticed, um, uh, that y'all have noticed, not just like,
like that you've noticed how you chosen the Lord. You've noticed how it has affected your life,
how you've been able to be more in rest, how you've chosen more freedom.
And it was very excited to hear how y'all were saying that you could, that you were seeing God
like, Oh, I saw God here. And I saw that God did this. And I saw that God's like this,
you know, cause that is very important. I'm currently writing the journal for the next
rest intensive. I'm going to have a journal for the next rest intensive. Very excited.
At least that's the plan. I fully expect it to get out the door.
And, um, and one of the questions on it is, you know, how, how have you seen God today?
And it, and three things every single day, how have you seen God's day? Because it checked that,
that completely changed things for me. I say that a lot because I'm telling you it, it, it really
was wild how each of these things were just so transformative in my life because it was me
choosing God over anything else. And it was who is God and where can I see him in my life and
whatever. And I would think about it. I would find multiple things all day long about where I
was seeing God. And, and so it suddenly occurred to me that that's not something that I've talked
about just a whole lot enough for people to, um, for me to hear that other people are doing the
same thing, that they're actually looking for God as opposed to just trying to figure out, okay,
did I feel better today? Cause Hey, we do want to feel better, but we, we feel better because of
how we see God. Like that makes us feel better is who is my God. The reason we don't feel good.
In other words, the reason is, is because there's something about God that we don't believe is as
good as he says that he is. And so we have to learn to retrain ourselves to, to, um, uh, to
actually see him, to see his goodness, to understand that there's not just constant
communication from him to us, but constant communion with he and us all day long every
day. Cause remember it's your life is you and God living it out. It's not you living it. And God's
just on standby for you to check in every now and then making sure he's okay with what you're doing,
you know, and if he's got new, you know, orders that you have to execute, he's like, no, this is
you and he living life together, making decisions, doing stuff, coming up with ideas, co-creating,
having fun for the heck, absolute heck of it, you know, that kind of thing.
And so it's, it, you, the, the more that you practice seeing God, the more that you will
see him because in a manner of speaking, it's not practice. It's like you're stepping out.
You're choosing that. God really is who he says that he is. So you expect to find him. So just
like what Tammy and I were talking about before is you seek him. God will reveal himself. So what
you're watching for all day is how has God revealed himself? Where have I seen him?
Where did he pop in? How did he show up? Not where did I find him? You know, because again,
that focus is on us thinking that there's some effort involved or something. It's no, no, no.
How did God reveal? How did God
or whatever, and we'll find that all kinds of aspects of our lives that we thought were
either mundane, or were, or, or were, and even that were we thought were Satan, or we
thought were, I don't know, just our own stupidity or whatever.
A lot of it will discover this, that those things are not all of them, but that a lot
of them actually are God, God loving on us, God answering our prayer, God moving things
on our behalf, God giving us new direction, new insight, new revelation, and then it's
always towards more love, more freedom, Him covering us in provision and protection.
So anyway, I was excited to hear that y'all are doing it because that's something that
I've really wanted to make sure I help everyone in the Rest Intensive focus on, and it should
be, I've just become, as over time, I've become more and more aware that it's something I
really need to, that it's a tone I need to help set, is not what we're trying to escape
from and not what God gives us freedom from, but what God gives us freedom to, is just,
in other words, to always be focused on what is the good that He is, the love and the freedom
that we were saved into, that's what I'm trying to say, not, oh, how can I feel better?
How can I not feel like this?
How can God just take it away?
That, if that needs to be our motivation for a while, because it's where we are, that's
fine, but especially over the time that we have the Rest Intensive, that should definitely
not be the focus for that long.
It's unhealthy, and it's not, here's a really big point, it's not sustainable to keep you
going.
You cannot live life sustainably and be motivated by what you're trying to escape.
You can't do it.
You have to be going towards hope and towards a dream, that is sustainable motivation to
move forward, not constantly trying to leave something and, quote, unquote, get better.
That just burns you out, that's where burnout comes.
Burnout comes from good people just, or from people trying to do good, that's exhausting.
So anyway, I was so very excited to hear all of these things that y'all had decided for
yourselves that you were looking for between you and God.
God, where are you?
Loved what you said, Karen, you said, it's become less about the outcome and more about
me and God and what we're doing.
Exactly.
Can I, can I copyright that?
I'm just kidding.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I appreciate it.
I was just joking.
It's excellent.
Such a great way to phrase that.
Did I say it that way?
Did I say that?
Well, something like that.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Yeah.
I didn't, I may not have done it justice with the exact, with the exact phrasing, but it
was something like that.
You know, it's become less about the outcome and more about what me and God are doing together
and who he is and, you know, just our journey and you were saying that kind of a thing.
Excellent.
And that's exactly the point is to let go of our lifestyle.
Remember the ultimate choice.
Cause basically you were afraid, rephrasing the ultimate choice, God, I, I, I released
my outcome and I, and I let go of my outcome.
I no longer hold you responsible for my outcome.
And instead, God, I choose you.
I no longer choose my lifestyle.
I no longer choose my outcome.
I choose you.
So when that's what you're doing, you're releasing the outcome and choosing God.
That's it.
Wow.
I can get excited to choose my lifestyle or my outcome.
Just choose him.
Yes.
That's so good.
Yeah.
You need to, you need to like, we need to, you need to coin that or something.
There you go.
Put it on a t-shirt.
Yeah.
Put it on a t-shirt.
I would say just, just instead of, instead of just do it, just choose him.
That's right.
Just choose him.
Exactly.
I was, I was visiting with a lady from England the other day and I don't know what part of
it was.
She was just telling that about, and then part of it was she, part of it was, I don't
know.
I just started saying these things in really short sentences.
I don't know whatever it was she, I was, I was doing some transformation sessions with
her.
And with certain people, my transformation session had, uh, uh, have been.
Some certain transformations sessions to certain people have been very long.
It depends on, on the purpose and how much time, you know, anyway.
So with her, I think at one of them, I think our first one was like four and a
half hours or something like that.
Anyway.
So during that one, and during the next one, she kept saying, Ashley,
you should put that on a t-shirt.
And I say something else, actually, that's actually, actually
should have your whole life.
And I'm going, what am I saying?
But anyway, apparently to her, it sounded really quippy and pithy.
And I'm like, in my mind, I'm going, no, there's too much background in order
to understand the pithy statement that I don't think that staying alone.
Anyway, but I was like, Hey, that's kind of cool.
Anyway, that's what it reminded me of Karen.
When you were talking about, we should put that, we should, you
know, put it on a t-shirt.
That's good.
Yeah.
Did you say you need to look up that jewelry company?
Yes.
I just, I'm going to put it in chat.
Mariana M-A-R-I-A-N-A.
I'm glad you did because that is not how I spelled it in my head.
I think that's it.
I think that's how you spell it.
And I went and grabbed another, here's one more bracelet.
That's just, and a ring.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I see people, you know, I've seen Karen in person.
She always dresses really nice and put together and I've
always liked her jewelry.
So I've probably seen some of those pieces in real life.
And, and it's not very expensive.
That's the neat part.
It's not very, here's another one.
Oh, wow.
But it's not, it's not very expensive.
Oh, that's pretty.
Yeah.
And this, and this ring had, um, Oh, lots of bling.
See, I like that.
Lots of bling.
I've got too much of it.
I got too much of it.
Sometimes I give it away.
Well, I looked in there and I went, what have I been doing?
So sometimes I just give some away.
Yeah.
Well, I could have to look it up myself.
My girlfriend calls me and goes, Hey, they're having a trunk,
Mariana trunk show.
You want to go?
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
And I'm like, what am I doing?
But yeah, they usually have one store.
Yeah.
What I said, window shopping, right?
They have one store per zip code.
So they kind of keep it down.
So you just look at Mariana.
Yeah.
Or online.
You can find it online, but there's all to check it out.
Thank you.
It's fun.
That's fun.
You have to look at it.
Yeah.
Well, it's good to see everybody.
And so we're going to have our last fireside chat on Thursday.
Um, I will be at a conference all day Thursday.
And so, um, I think I'll miss the last session or part of the last
session for, uh, our last fireside chat.
So I'll look forward to getting to see everybody again, Thursday night.
And, uh, trying to think what else?
Oh, um, I have posted, I'm trying to remember what I haven't told her yet.
So I posted at least one new supportive teaching on, you know, the rest
retreat and supportive teachings.
I've posted at least one more.
Oh, shoot.
There's, there was something that I was, I was going to post another couple of
things about how to make friends and rest.
I forgot about that.
I'll try to do that as soon as I get off.
Um, but I did one about healing, um, or how to approach the spirit, soul and body.
Um, and it's just basically how to talk to your spirit, your soul, your body.
And I think in there, maybe I just, I just addressed the soul and body, but
you can kind of say this, um, talk to the spirit, um, you know, um, except
from the perspective to the spirit, your, your talk to your spirit, you're
talking as if like, it's already perfect.
And just asking it, you know, to commune with into, uh, engage with, uh, you
know, the spirit of wisdom, spirit of understanding in order to heal certain
wounds in order to whatever.
Um, and, uh, who was I talking to?
Was it you, Tammy, or was it somebody else that mentioned that they had gone
in and looked at some of the old teachings and found, you know, like
the kitchen series, maybe.
Yeah.
I think it was that I think it was the original ones about the vision that I
saw when I was standing in, in, um, in my bathroom, this bathroom right over
here, actually, because again, I was here a few years ago when God was
teaching all these things.
And, um, and I saw that I saw a spirit soul and body of the same person
and I saw how they interacted.
So anyway, that's how it let me have a word.
Let me know, Hey, Ashley, you can, there's these different aspects of you
that all have particular functions and roles and in a manner of speaking, a
hierarchy and, um, because they're all the soul, the spirit knows what to do.
And it teaches the soul because the spirit is getting its knowledge and
wisdom from learning from the Lord and from the spirit of wisdom, knowledge,
understanding, and all of those other seven spirits of God.
And, um, so anyway, um, uh, then, um, uh, then Annette had asked me, Hey, you
had mentioned that you have written up a little something about as an example of
how to talk.
to your spirit, soul, and body. Could you post that? So I posted that. Um, and I guess that is
it. So anyway, um, but it's good to see all of you and I will see you Thursday.
Can I say one quick thing? Because I'm supposed to be at that conference Thursday with yours,
truly. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you see his picture at all. Oh yes. Just barely. Yeah.
Barely. Yeah. He's the one that married you, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, so I got to choose
whether to go to that meeting or be at this because it starts that night. Whatever you,
oh, that's right. I assumed that it would. And I think he's speaking that night. I think I heard
that he is in the mornings and the evenings you want to do is totally up to you, whatever you
want to do. I don't know if they have a recording of that, you know, we have a recording of this.
So yeah, I'll find out the same thing as live, but you get to whatever you'd like to do. Yeah.
I'm still the, the Lord will show me what to do, but that's right. And then, um, then will you let
us know when you're going to post the, uh, times for next week for the session? Yes. Maybe shoot,
shoot us. Okay. Yeah. I haven't yet because my husband and I are still deciding if we're
going to travel for a, for a wedding all the way back in South Carolina. So we're still not sure.
So that's why not just y'all, but other people's plans are being held in the air,
waiting for us to decide. So are we going and driving 17 hours there and going to the wedding,
possibly seeing Etienne in Charlotte? Cause that's where he's going to be after Charlotte,
South Carolina, after he finishes this conference and then, um, and driving 17 hours back. We're
not sure. So anyway, but, um, okay. Yeah. But yeah, I will let you, you'll let y'all know as
soon as, um, as soon as that's open to be able to schedule that. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay.
We all have a good night. Okay. Even if I, even if I go to that meeting, I'll probably pop on.
Okay. I'll probably, I'll have to go. I'll have to go back in Greg's office or something and pop on.
Yeah. One time, Linda, um, you know, by the way, Linda is the one who runs the Cedar Creek
everyone. Um, so by the way, Linda, one time was doing a party or whatever. And I don't remember
what kind of celebration it was, but some kind of a party. And she popped into the meeting,
leaving the party and goes, it went into the little prayer room, you know, that's right.
It by the sanctuary with it, with the baby room where the people with like babies that need to
like pull away for a little bit. She popped in there. It's like, I know where you are. She said,
yes, we're in the middle of a party. And I came away to be able to join the meeting.
Even if I'm there, you guys, I'll, I'll, uh, pull away. I can pull away. Okay. Well,
we'll look forward to getting to see you however long it is. Okay. Thank you all.
I'll see y'all later. Bye. Okay. Bye.