May 14, 2025 • 17 mins
Have you ever wondered if anything beautiful could possibly grow from your broken places? The soil of past pain, addiction, betrayal, or heartbreak might seem too damaged to support new life—but that's exactly where the most resilient growth begins.
Drawing from her family's annual gardening tradition, Tonya Shellnutt explores the profound parallel between tending a garden and nurturing our healing journey. Just as we carefully prepare soil, wait for the right planting time, and persist through unpredictable weather, our recovery requires patience, faith, and courage. The transformative promise of "beauty for ashes" from Isaiah 61:3 comes alive through practical wisdom about blooming right where you are.
True courage, Tonya reminds us, isn't waiting for perfect conditions to grow—it's growing anyway "in the mud, in the mess, in the cracks." Whether you're showing up when you'd rather shut down, praying when you feel nothing, or taking one small step toward healing, these brave choices are the seeds of new life. "Blooming doesn't mean the storm didn't hit you," she explains, "it means you didn't let it have the final word."
This episode introduces the powerful concept of creating your own "Bloom Board"—a visual reminder of the ashes you've faced, the beauty currently emerging, and the growth you dare to hope for. From forgiving someone who never apologized to breaking generational cycles, these personal milestones mark your journey from brokenness to beauty. Remember: you aren't buried—you're planted. And with God's help, something beautiful is already growing in your broken places.
Email Tonya for your own Bloom Board template and join a community of Courageous Overcomers who are finding new life after difficult seasons. If all you see today is dirt and broken ground, don't give up—your most beautiful blooms may be just beneath the surface.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to Courageous Overcomers.
I'm your host, tanya Shelnut.
Thank you so much, everyone,for being with me today.
We've spent the last month ofApril talking about addiction,
and this month I'm so excited totalk about.
Well, I don't want to tell youwhat we're going to talk about,
but today we're going to betalking about blooming in the
(00:29):
broken places.
So Isaiah 61 3 says to bestowon them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes.
And this episode is for theperson who's come through a hard
season like addiction,heartbreak, grief, and is
wondering if anything good cangrow from it.
So every Mother's Day, we havethis tradition at the Shelnut
(00:54):
House and we do a garden.
And so when I say a garden,please understand I'm talking
about a very small raised garden.
Most of anybody that knows me,I do not have a green thumb.
I will kill dried or fakeflowers.
I'm not very good at this atall, but I love it because every
(01:14):
year I'm getting better at it.
And so we do this thing whereRich says we always have to wait
until after Mother's Day.
We can never plant the gardenbefore, and it has to be
Mother's Day weekend, and it'sexciting because we all go to
the nursery and we pick out, youknow, is this going to be the
(01:35):
best tomato plant?
What about this jalapeno plant?
And we're always coming up withdifferent things to plant just
to see what will happen with it.
I like to call it my salsagarden because I love making
salsa.
So do we put other things inthere?
Yes, we do, but it ispredominantly things that would
(01:56):
help create an amazing salsagarden.
So, anyway, so it's just a funtime that we have and it's a
memory.
My kids know that this is oneof the things that I love to do
every year, because we're solimited on space and sunlight,
because we have so many treesaround us.
We're like trying to getcreative with planners and you
(02:17):
know how do we set this up, butat the end of the day, these are
lessons that we've learned.
You can't plant too soon, youhave to plant before the last
frost, and you've got to makesure the soil is ready, and so
those are the things that we'regoing to do a parallel with
today.
So when we, when you've livedthrough addiction, betrayal and
(02:39):
trauma, you know it is reallyhard to know when to trust and
when it's safe and the groundmight look ready, but you're
hesitant because you've burnedbefore and it's maybe the frost
has passed, but maybe this isthe moment to believe again, and
so you don't need to be fullyhealed to begin, just like you
(03:02):
need to trust the ground isready for you.
So this verse in Isaiah 58, 11,says this the Lord will guide
you always.
He will satisfy your needs in asun scorched land and will
strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well wateredgarden.
Isn't that such a great, greatverse?
(03:23):
I love that verse.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about, as I said earlier,
blooming in our broken places,and so the first point I want to
make is the bravery of blooming, because a flower doesn't bloom
because everything's perfect.
It blooms because it's had time.
You don't wait for the perfectweather to grow because you'll
(03:44):
wait forever.
We know this.
You grow anyway in the mud, inthe mess, in the cracks, and
that's what makes blooming brave.
So what does it mean to bebrave in this season?
So I'm just going to give yousome examples.
Brave is showing up when you'drather shut down.
You pray when you don't feelanything.
You stay when running would beeasier.
(04:06):
Brave is believing God is stillworking when all you see is
dirt and the mess.
Faith doesn't always feelstrong.
Sometimes it's just notquitting.
That's being brave.
Brave is letting go of who youare, the old version of you, the
one built on survival.
People pleasing, numbing andpretending.
Letting her go is hard, butit's the only way to make room
(04:30):
for what's blooming now.
Brave is also opening up whenshame tells you to hide, whether
it's God, a friend or your ownjournal.
Speaking truth is scary, andthat is also why it takes
courage and bravery.
And brave is taking the nextstep.
Healing doesn't always feelsafe.
It feels exposed.
(04:52):
But here's the thing thateveryone has to remember you
don't have to have it alltogether, Just like I'm not a
green thumb, just like I'm notthe best gardener.
I just have to take the nextstep in the right direction.
And so blooming doesn't mean thestorm didn't hit you.
It means you didn't let it havethe final word.
(05:15):
So, for example, we know thatdaffodils when there's a fire,
you know many flowers come andthey spring forth and you have
really fertile ground, prettyflowers that grow.
You'll see flowers come upthrough the cracks of the
concrete.
You'll find wildflowers alsoburning or growing where it's
(05:39):
been burned, and so you canstill be tender and growing and
you can still be uncertain andblooming, and that's what I want
you to get out of thisparticular verse.
The other thing I want to say isthis is that when in our
summers in Montana, we wouldalways wait until Mother's Day
and plan our garden, and thenyou know that July storm would
(06:03):
come through and the hailliterally size of golf balls,
would just wipe everything outor the grasshoppers would eat
everything, well, we could havejust said you know what?
What's the sense?
Why are we even trying to builda garden or grow a garden when
you know there could be a frostor there could be know a storm
that can completely wipe it out?
(06:24):
But we keep going, we keeplearning and we keep growing,
and so the bravery of bloomingis important.
So a verse for you, my grace,is sufficient, for my power is
made perfect in weakness.
Second Corinthians, 12, 9.
(06:44):
So now I want to talk abouttending to the soil, your soil.
So here's a couple questions,well, actually three questions.
I want to ask you what do Istill carry from my broken
season?
I want you to be honest, I wantyou to say it out loud, I want
you to write it down and get itout.
(07:04):
Question number two what signsof growth, however small, can I
see right now?
So a peaceful moment, a healthyboundary, a prayer.
You didn't use to pray, and Iwant you to not overlook the
quiet winds, because there was atime when it was hard for me to
(07:25):
pray for certain people becauseI was very angry at them, but
the Lord has helped me andsoftened my heart, and all that,
and maybe that's somethingyou're struggling with.
What beauty do I dare hope fornext?
So I want to encourage you thatGod isn't waiting for you to be
perfect.
He's already working in yoursoil right now, and you need to
(07:47):
let him have the mess, you needto let him have the dirt, you
need to let him have the mud,because that's where he does his
best work.
Here's another scripture foryou Hosea 10, 12.
Sow righteousness foryourselves, reap the fruit of
unfailing love and break up yourunplowed ground, for it is in
time to seek the Lord.
Another great verse All rightnow.
(08:10):
Here's where the activity forthe week comes, and this is
going to be hard for some people, and I will just tell you right
now.
I have a template with somepoints to give you.
So if you want a copy of this,you just need to email me.
You can go to my website andemail me from there.
But here is what your, yourbloom board is going to consist
(08:35):
of.
Okay, three things.
So, and again, I give youprompts in this, in the bloom
board.
But what ashes have I faced thelosses so you know past
identity.
So let me give you someexamples so that you can kind of
begin to visualize what yourbloom board is going to look
like.
An addiction that robbed me oftime, trust and identity.
(08:56):
Emotional or physical abuse Ididn't deserve and remember.
You're looking at the pain thatyou faced.
I read that scripture in thebeginning about taking beauty
from ashes.
This is what we're doing here.
We're taking beauty from ashes,and so I want you to identify
these.
A deep fear of abandonment ornever being enough.
(09:19):
Shame that's kept me quiet.
Years of performing for love orvalidation.
Depression I have a lot offamily members that struggle
with that.
Sexual sin or trauma that justdistorted your worth.
Seasons of spiritual drynesswhere God felt silent.
The lie that you've always beendamaged.
(09:41):
These are some of the thingsthat I want you to look at and
identify.
And then I want to look at thebeauty being revealed.
You know the peace, thestrength, the clarity, the
courage, the new purpose.
So, for example, you said no tosomething that used to control
you.
So obviously most of you knowthat alcohol was my thing.
(10:04):
Anger is another thing for me,and so I've had to work very,
very hard at that, andbitterness too, to not let that
control me, and so I want you towork on identifying some of the
beauty that's being revealedthrough all this.
So you felt peace instead ofpanic.
(10:24):
You know a lot of people, evensome of my own friends, struggle
with anxiety and want you toidentify that.
You finally slept through thenight without any nightmares.
You shared your story out loudwith someone that can be very,
very scary.
You forgave someone who neverapologized.
You walked away from a toxicrelationship and I'm going to
(10:48):
give you a longer list on thisone, because I think it can be
hard to recognize things that wehave actually done because
we're so used to focusing on theashes we faced.
But it's very hard to focus onwhat some of the things that are
being revealed, and again, it'simportant to even acknowledge
the small things.
(11:08):
So you set a boundary anddidn't apologize for it.
You no longer feel the need toperform, to feel loved.
That's a hard one.
That's still.
I still struggle with that one.
You caught yourself beforereacting out of old patterns
Again.
You know I struggle with angerand so sometimes more often than
not I just react and I saythings, and I have to.
(11:31):
I have to really reel that in.
I feel like I'm doing better atthat, so I'm going to give
myself a pat on the back forthat.
You started praying again, evenif you weren't sure how.
I don't want to spend too muchtime elaborating on this, but
look, even just talking to God.
This is why I journal, becausesometimes I don't, I don't
really know what to say, so Ijust pour my heart out on paper
(11:55):
and that, to me, is part of myprayer is just asking the Lord
to take what I'm writing down tohim and I'll write in my
journal basically, lord, pleasehelp me, and I write out what it
is that I'm writing down to him.
And I'll write in my journalbasically, lord, please help me,
and I write out what it is thatI'm struggling with, or if I'm
asking him why about something,I write it down.
You felt joy and didn'tquestion if you deserved it.
You didn't reach for the drink,the phone or the escape.
(12:17):
You're showing up to life withyour eyes open and your heart
soft, and you're finallystarting to believe that maybe
you're worth healing, and so thenext part of your bloom board
is the blooms that are yet tocome.
So you're healing, you'rebelieving for, like restored
relationships, you're calling.
(12:38):
So I'm gonna give you someexamples on this one too.
You know the freedom fromaddiction that still has a grip.
So you know, I think I probablywill always struggle with food.
I feel like I did really good.
This weekend we had an event atour house and there was so much
sugar here and it's sometimesit's just hard to say no, but I
(13:04):
did pretty good.
So I'm going to give myself apat on the back for that one.
Restored relationship with andremember, these are the blooms
that are yet to come A restoredrelationship with a parent,
child or spouse.
Clarity about your calling orpurpose.
I think this is a reallyimportant one.
It's like you know, it'simportant to have a calling,
(13:25):
it's important to have a purpose, and we don't always know what
that is, and so you know tellingGod.
Well, you know.
This is what I'd like to do,lord.
What do you want me to do?
That's important.
Emotional stability after yearsof chaos, being able to stop
(13:46):
the irrational thinking, I thinkis important, and so writing
these down, a home filled withpeace and set attention, the
ability to trust again afterbetrayal, healing your body from
chronic illness or trauma,that's a good one.
The courage to speak your storyout loud, that's really
(14:07):
important Because remember andwe've talked about this, we talk
about all the time your storyisn't meant just for you.
It's meant to help somebodyelse.
It's meant to help inspiresomebody else.
Financial provision orbreakthrough a God honoring
marriage after years ofdysfunction, forgiving someone
(14:27):
that you thought you never couldforgive, joy that doesn't feel
forced, that you thought younever could forgive, joy that
doesn't feel forced, and alegacy that breaks generational
cycles.
I share this all the time.
I mean I have five kids.
I pray, pray, pray that none ofthem, you know, with my
adoptive dad, my birth father,my husband's family, like
(14:50):
there's so much alcohol, I justpray, pray, pray that my husband
and I have been able to breakthat generational cycle, because
it's important.
Faith that no longer waversevery time life that gets hard.
You know, god doesn't love mebecause this is happening, or
God's mad at me because that'shappening.
Just remaining faithful in thein the hard times, and then
(15:14):
peace when you're alone.
Not not afraid, but peace.
And so I want you to create this, this bloom board, and again,
email me and I'll give you theprompts for it.
But I want you to it's assimple as you know posting it on
your refrigerator, putting itin your journal.
Phil, if you want to share itwith us, that would be great.
(15:38):
I post as much as I can onsocial media updates and if you
want to celebrate what God isdoing and growing you in, then
let's do that.
I would love that.
Maybe I'll even be inspiredthis week to post something on
my bloom board.
And look there's.
Some of you are like, are superartistic and you want to draw
(15:59):
flowers and petals and make yourbloom board party.
Well, go for it.
That's not me, but maybe I'llget creative this week, who
knows?
Okay, another verse for you,isaiah 43, 18 through 19.
Forget the former things, donot dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing.
Now it springs up, do you notperceive it?
(16:22):
So if all you see is dirt andbroken ground.
Don't give up.
You are not buried.
You're planted and you'reblooming, even now.
Those who sow with tears willreap with songs of joy, psalms
126.5.
Okay, well, that is a wrap forthis week's episode.
(16:43):
So email me again and I will,or go to our website,
tanyashellnutcom.
Send me your email address.
I'll send you the bloom boardtemplate and get that to you
Again.
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Give us a five star review.
Share this with somebody whothinks maybe they need to get in
(17:06):
the group with us and do abloom board.
That needs to be encouraged.
Appreciate you, guys.
I hope everyone has a greatweek and I hope that everyone
had an amazing Mother's Day.
Thank you.
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Welcome to Courageous Overcomers.
I'm your host, tanya Shelnut.
Thank you so much, everyone,for being with me today.
We've spent the last month ofApril talking about addiction,
and this month I'm so excited totalk about.
Well, I don't want to tell youwhat we're going to talk about,
but today we're going to betalking about blooming in the
(00:29):
broken places.
So Isaiah 61 3 says to bestowon them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes.
And this episode is for theperson who's come through a hard
season like addiction,heartbreak, grief, and is
wondering if anything good cangrow from it.
So every Mother's Day, we havethis tradition at the Shelnut
(00:54):
House and we do a garden.
And so when I say a garden,please understand I'm talking
about a very small raised garden.
Most of anybody that knows me,I do not have a green thumb.
I will kill dried or fakeflowers.
I'm not very good at this atall, but I love it because every
(01:14):
year I'm getting better at it.
And so we do this thing whereRich says we always have to wait
until after Mother's Day.
We can never plant the gardenbefore, and it has to be
Mother's Day weekend, and it'sexciting because we all go to
the nursery and we pick out, youknow, is this going to be the
(01:35):
best tomato plant?
What about this jalapeno plant?
And we're always coming up withdifferent things to plant just
to see what will happen with it.
I like to call it my salsagarden because I love making
salsa.
So do we put other things inthere?
Yes, we do, but it ispredominantly things that would
(01:56):
help create an amazing salsagarden.
So, anyway, so it's just a funtime that we have and it's a
memory.
My kids know that this is oneof the things that I love to do
every year, because we're solimited on space and sunlight,
because we have so many treesaround us.
We're like trying to getcreative with planners and you
(02:17):
know how do we set this up, butat the end of the day, these are
lessons that we've learned.
You can't plant too soon, youhave to plant before the last
frost, and you've got to makesure the soil is ready, and so
those are the things that we'regoing to do a parallel with
today.
So when we, when you've livedthrough addiction, betrayal and
(02:39):
trauma, you know it is reallyhard to know when to trust and
when it's safe and the groundmight look ready, but you're
hesitant because you've burnedbefore and it's maybe the frost
has passed, but maybe this isthe moment to believe again, and
so you don't need to be fullyhealed to begin, just like you
(03:02):
need to trust the ground isready for you.
So this verse in Isaiah 58, 11,says this the Lord will guide
you always.
He will satisfy your needs in asun scorched land and will
strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well wateredgarden.
Isn't that such a great, greatverse?
(03:23):
I love that verse.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about, as I said earlier,
blooming in our broken places,and so the first point I want to
make is the bravery of blooming, because a flower doesn't bloom
because everything's perfect.
It blooms because it's had time.
You don't wait for the perfectweather to grow because you'll
(03:44):
wait forever.
We know this.
You grow anyway in the mud, inthe mess, in the cracks, and
that's what makes blooming brave.
So what does it mean to bebrave in this season?
So I'm just going to give yousome examples.
Brave is showing up when you'drather shut down.
You pray when you don't feelanything.
You stay when running would beeasier.
(04:06):
Brave is believing God is stillworking when all you see is
dirt and the mess.
Faith doesn't always feelstrong.
Sometimes it's just notquitting.
That's being brave.
Brave is letting go of who youare, the old version of you, the
one built on survival.
People pleasing, numbing andpretending.
Letting her go is hard, butit's the only way to make room
(04:30):
for what's blooming now.
Brave is also opening up whenshame tells you to hide, whether
it's God, a friend or your ownjournal.
Speaking truth is scary, andthat is also why it takes
courage and bravery.
And brave is taking the nextstep.
Healing doesn't always feelsafe.
It feels exposed.
(04:52):
But here's the thing thateveryone has to remember you
don't have to have it alltogether, Just like I'm not a
green thumb, just like I'm notthe best gardener.
I just have to take the nextstep in the right direction.
And so blooming doesn't mean thestorm didn't hit you.
It means you didn't let it havethe final word.
(05:15):
So, for example, we know thatdaffodils when there's a fire,
you know many flowers come andthey spring forth and you have
really fertile ground, prettyflowers that grow.
You'll see flowers come upthrough the cracks of the
concrete.
You'll find wildflowers alsoburning or growing where it's
(05:39):
been burned, and so you canstill be tender and growing and
you can still be uncertain andblooming, and that's what I want
you to get out of thisparticular verse.
The other thing I want to say isthis is that when in our
summers in Montana, we wouldalways wait until Mother's Day
and plan our garden, and thenyou know that July storm would
(06:03):
come through and the hailliterally size of golf balls,
would just wipe everything outor the grasshoppers would eat
everything, well, we could havejust said you know what?
What's the sense?
Why are we even trying to builda garden or grow a garden when
you know there could be a frostor there could be know a storm
that can completely wipe it out?
(06:24):
But we keep going, we keeplearning and we keep growing,
and so the bravery of bloomingis important.
So a verse for you, my grace,is sufficient, for my power is
made perfect in weakness.
Second Corinthians, 12, 9.
(06:44):
So now I want to talk abouttending to the soil, your soil.
So here's a couple questions,well, actually three questions.
I want to ask you what do Istill carry from my broken
season?
I want you to be honest, I wantyou to say it out loud, I want
you to write it down and get itout.
(07:04):
Question number two what signsof growth, however small, can I
see right now?
So a peaceful moment, a healthyboundary, a prayer.
You didn't use to pray, and Iwant you to not overlook the
quiet winds, because there was atime when it was hard for me to
(07:25):
pray for certain people becauseI was very angry at them, but
the Lord has helped me andsoftened my heart, and all that,
and maybe that's somethingyou're struggling with.
What beauty do I dare hope fornext?
So I want to encourage you thatGod isn't waiting for you to be
perfect.
He's already working in yoursoil right now, and you need to
(07:47):
let him have the mess, you needto let him have the dirt, you
need to let him have the mud,because that's where he does his
best work.
Here's another scripture foryou Hosea 10, 12.
Sow righteousness foryourselves, reap the fruit of
unfailing love and break up yourunplowed ground, for it is in
time to seek the Lord.
Another great verse All rightnow.
(08:10):
Here's where the activity forthe week comes, and this is
going to be hard for some people, and I will just tell you right
now.
I have a template with somepoints to give you.
So if you want a copy of this,you just need to email me.
You can go to my website andemail me from there.
But here is what your, yourbloom board is going to consist
(08:35):
of.
Okay, three things.
So, and again, I give youprompts in this, in the bloom
board.
But what ashes have I faced thelosses so you know past
identity.
So let me give you someexamples so that you can kind of
begin to visualize what yourbloom board is going to look
like.
An addiction that robbed me oftime, trust and identity.
(08:56):
Emotional or physical abuse Ididn't deserve and remember.
You're looking at the pain thatyou faced.
I read that scripture in thebeginning about taking beauty
from ashes.
This is what we're doing here.
We're taking beauty from ashes,and so I want you to identify
these.
A deep fear of abandonment ornever being enough.
(09:19):
Shame that's kept me quiet.
Years of performing for love orvalidation.
Depression I have a lot offamily members that struggle
with that.
Sexual sin or trauma that justdistorted your worth.
Seasons of spiritual drynesswhere God felt silent.
The lie that you've always beendamaged.
(09:41):
These are some of the thingsthat I want you to look at and
identify.
And then I want to look at thebeauty being revealed.
You know the peace, thestrength, the clarity, the
courage, the new purpose.
So, for example, you said no tosomething that used to control
you.
So obviously most of you knowthat alcohol was my thing.
(10:04):
Anger is another thing for me,and so I've had to work very,
very hard at that, andbitterness too, to not let that
control me, and so I want you towork on identifying some of the
beauty that's being revealedthrough all this.
So you felt peace instead ofpanic.
(10:24):
You know a lot of people, evensome of my own friends, struggle
with anxiety and want you toidentify that.
You finally slept through thenight without any nightmares.
You shared your story out loudwith someone that can be very,
very scary.
You forgave someone who neverapologized.
You walked away from a toxicrelationship and I'm going to
(10:48):
give you a longer list on thisone, because I think it can be
hard to recognize things that wehave actually done because
we're so used to focusing on theashes we faced.
But it's very hard to focus onwhat some of the things that are
being revealed, and again, it'simportant to even acknowledge
the small things.
(11:08):
So you set a boundary anddidn't apologize for it.
You no longer feel the need toperform, to feel loved.
That's a hard one.
That's still.
I still struggle with that one.
You caught yourself beforereacting out of old patterns
Again.
You know I struggle with angerand so sometimes more often than
not I just react and I saythings, and I have to.
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I have to really reel that in.
I feel like I'm doing better atthat, so I'm going to give
myself a pat on the back forthat.
You started praying again, evenif you weren't sure how.
I don't want to spend too muchtime elaborating on this, but
look, even just talking to God.
This is why I journal, becausesometimes I don't, I don't
really know what to say, so Ijust pour my heart out on paper
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and that, to me, is part of myprayer is just asking the Lord
to take what I'm writing down tohim and I'll write in my
journal basically, lord, pleasehelp me, and I write out what it
is that I'm writing down to him.
And I'll write in my journalbasically, lord, please help me,
and I write out what it is thatI'm struggling with, or if I'm
asking him why about something,I write it down.
You felt joy and didn'tquestion if you deserved it.
You didn't reach for the drink,the phone or the escape.
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You're showing up to life withyour eyes open and your heart
soft, and you're finallystarting to believe that maybe
you're worth healing, and so thenext part of your bloom board
is the blooms that are yet tocome.
So you're healing, you'rebelieving for, like restored
relationships, you're calling.
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So I'm gonna give you someexamples on this one too.
You know the freedom fromaddiction that still has a grip.
So you know, I think I probablywill always struggle with food.
I feel like I did really good.
This weekend we had an event atour house and there was so much
sugar here and it's sometimesit's just hard to say no, but I
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did pretty good.
So I'm going to give myself apat on the back for that one.
Restored relationship with andremember, these are the blooms
that are yet to come A restoredrelationship with a parent,
child or spouse.
Clarity about your calling orpurpose.
I think this is a reallyimportant one.
It's like you know, it'simportant to have a calling,
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it's important to have a purpose, and we don't always know what
that is, and so you know tellingGod.
Well, you know.
This is what I'd like to do,lord.
What do you want me to do?
That's important.
Emotional stability after yearsof chaos, being able to stop
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the irrational thinking, I thinkis important, and so writing
these down, a home filled withpeace and set attention, the
ability to trust again afterbetrayal, healing your body from
chronic illness or trauma,that's a good one.
The courage to speak your storyout loud, that's really
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important Because remember andwe've talked about this, we talk
about all the time your storyisn't meant just for you.
It's meant to help somebodyelse.
It's meant to help inspiresomebody else.
Financial provision orbreakthrough a God honoring
marriage after years ofdysfunction, forgiving someone
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that you thought you never couldforgive, joy that doesn't feel
forced, that you thought younever could forgive, joy that
doesn't feel forced, and alegacy that breaks generational
cycles.
I share this all the time.
I mean I have five kids.
I pray, pray, pray that none ofthem, you know, with my
adoptive dad, my birth father,my husband's family, like
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there's so much alcohol, I justpray, pray, pray that my husband
and I have been able to breakthat generational cycle, because
it's important.
Faith that no longer waversevery time life that gets hard.
You know, god doesn't love mebecause this is happening, or
God's mad at me because that'shappening.
Just remaining faithful in thein the hard times, and then
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peace when you're alone.
Not not afraid, but peace.
And so I want you to create this, this bloom board, and again,
email me and I'll give you theprompts for it.
But I want you to it's assimple as you know posting it on
your refrigerator, putting itin your journal.
Phil, if you want to share itwith us, that would be great.
(15:38):
I post as much as I can onsocial media updates and if you
want to celebrate what God isdoing and growing you in, then
let's do that.
I would love that.
Maybe I'll even be inspiredthis week to post something on
my bloom board.
And look there's.
Some of you are like, are superartistic and you want to draw
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flowers and petals and make yourbloom board party.
Well, go for it.
That's not me, but maybe I'llget creative this week, who
knows?
Okay, another verse for you,isaiah 43, 18 through 19.
Forget the former things, donot dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing.
Now it springs up, do you notperceive it?
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So if all you see is dirt andbroken ground.
Don't give up.
You are not buried.
You're planted and you'reblooming, even now.
Those who sow with tears willreap with songs of joy, psalms
126.5.
Okay, well, that is a wrap forthis week's episode.
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So email me again and I will,or go to our website,
tanyashellnutcom.
Send me your email address.
I'll send you the bloom boardtemplate and get that to you
Again.
Please share and like ourepisode.
Give us a five star review.
Share this with somebody whothinks maybe they need to get in
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the group with us and do abloom board.
That needs to be encouraged.
Appreciate you, guys.
I hope everyone has a greatweek and I hope that everyone
had an amazing Mother's Day.
Thank you.
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Overcomers with Tanya Shelnut.
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