Giddy Up with Lesa: Empower Your Life – Divine Daughterhood

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Welcome to this week's Giddy Up segment.

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I am so thankful that you're here and

I'm going to apologize for the audio and

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maybe the visual as well, if you're on

YouTube, but I am sitting in a parking

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lot, I'm going to have lunch with some

friends and I needed to get this done.

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I have some really good news.

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I'm going to share with you

at the end, but I also just

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wanted to take this segment to.

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kind of do a key takeaway from

the podcast that I did, um,

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on Tuesday with Amy Seifert.

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She was so amazing.

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She's, she's quite the lady.

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And one of the key takeaways that I don't

know if it, if we really talked about

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it a lot, but one thing that she said

is I can't be my husband's Holy Spirit.

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And, you know, he can't be my God.

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God is my God.

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And I think that for like the

beginning of my married life, maybe

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I kind of wanted to be that God.

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to my hubby, John.

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Maybe I want it to, um, kind of tell

him how it was and, and share, um,

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biblical things and not really join

in with him and studying things.

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But I think, you know, that was an issue.

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But, and, and then on the flip

side of that, I can't count

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on my husband to be my God.

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I mean, we are united in a unique,

special covenant with God, and

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we're here to, to work together.

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Um, and you know, it's a blessed union,

but I think I talked about in last week's.

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And last Tuesday's episode, like for

those poor women who are in a marriage and

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they don't feel like they want a divorce,

maybe it's a religious reason, whatever

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it is, uh, and they're feeling unloved.

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What Amy's advice was to go to

God and to get your love from

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him because he is our father.

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We are his daughters and he adores us.

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So that's what we all need to do.

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Whether you're feeling unloved by your

husband or your Anna loving relationship.

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He's not God and you're not God.

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And so I would just ask that you

kind of look at your own marriage

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and see if this has played out

in it because it has in mine.

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So I have a suspicion

that it might in yours.

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So that's what I wanted.

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The little key takeaway from,

um, Saddle Up Live this week.

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And then I wanted to share, the reason

I wanted to do this is I just, I

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had to go in for my first diagnostic

mammogram since, um, you know, having

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them catch that stage one breast cancer.

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And I'm telling you, it

has been quite a year.

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Um, you know, we

discovered it early March.

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So, you know, it's been almost a year now.

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And.

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had surgery beginning of April, started

chemo the end of April, did that till mid

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July, immediately started radiation, and

now the only thing I have two, um, shots

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left of an immune therapy that I'm doing.

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So, pretty much done, but You know,

the other weekend I was thinking

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through things and not looking

forward to this because you're scared.

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And, you know, and you're like,

Oh, I don't want it to be there.

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I don't want it to be back.

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I want it to just all be gone.

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And it really allowed me to utilize my

new skills of really surrendering to God.

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And my coaching comes from him now, so I

can surrender and instead of being afraid.

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of dying.

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I can just say I love life.

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And I am telling you when I went in

today, I was a different woman than I

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was a year ago when I was in, you know,

getting that diagnostic mammogram.

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I, and I'm not perfect.

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And I still was afraid.

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And I still shed a little, a few tears

when I hugged the, the technician

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who, um, you know, it was really nice.

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They immediately told me that

the radiologist had looked

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at it and it was all good.

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And what a blessing.

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Yay, God.

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Thank you.

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Jesus, I am so grateful and I

wanted to share that with you.

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And, you know, I think kind of through

this, I have, I've been so concerned

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about everyone knowing I'm okay and

I'm going to be okay that maybe I

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haven't shared the real like sadness.

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And I started to say a couple of

minutes ago that last weekend I was

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sitting, I was sitting on a plane,

we were coming home from Arizona

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and I suddenly was hit with this.

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Kind of a, a still quiet sadness

and it brought tears to my eyes

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and I just sat there and it was

kind of, and I let myself feel it.

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And my husband looked at me and

I told him and he said, I could

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tell something was going on.

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And I sat with it because we all

know we do have a need to mourn too.

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And so that feeling, even though

it's hard, needed to be felt.

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So I felt it.

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And, you know, even though it was

an unwanted feeling, I just let

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it be there and serve its purpose.

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And, you know, it was

one heck of a year and.

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There was a little sadness of

everything that I had gone through

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and whoa, what just happened?

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so I'll take you along on this

journey and I'm gonna try to be

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as honest as I can and sometimes

I'm not because I I can't help it.

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I try to cover it up I want things

to be better than they are sometimes

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or sometimes I can complain But I'm

gonna do my very best because I want

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to help all my listeners not I can't

help you suffer less per se But I want

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to be able to help you get through

hard things with courage and grace.

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So I love y'all.

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Thanks so much for being here.

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You take good care.