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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.
