April May Gems
April May, author and founder of April May Gems and mother of five, is passionate about sharing her stories to encourage and inspire others and to restore hearts that are in need of hope.
Episodes
November 25, 2025 • 31 mins
I had a few convos recently and interesting questions came firing ... “When I die, if I want to go to hell and have beers with my mates, what concern is that of yours?” “If I have my truth and you have your truth, can’t we just be cool with that?” And ofc the ultimate, “Where is God?”
“Is there a Case for Christ” is NOT a question about religion. Religion in my opinion is something I never want to be a part of and I say that beca...
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November 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Ever lost something valuable? I have. An apple watch given to me for my birthday, air pods that were a Christmas present, a diamond cross necklace - also a gift, even a wedding ring, not once but twice! (I now have a wedding ring tattoo!) I have also lost three different cats, (and an expensive cat tracker!) and even a valuable friend. Did I ever find any of these things? Yes! All of them. How? I had help!
Do you feel lost? Lost ...
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October 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Staying in my lane implies that I have my own one, right? A personal lane? Designed, especially for me? Well, what is it? How do I find it? Where does it lead? Is this lane clear? Or, are there hurdles involved? Will there be other surprise obstacles? If so, what are they? And how do I overcome them? Or, remove them? What if they are too big to get over or too hard to get out of my way? Is there help available? Maybe a hand? And if...
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October 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Have you ever known someone who was joyfully pregnant but then the unthinkable happened - their precious baby just ... died?
October is International Pregnancy, Infant and Child Loss Awareness month - a time to remember and support families who have been through the tragedy of having to say goodbye, too soon, to their little one.
Why does awareness for this even matter?
Well, it aims to break the taboo of ‘not talking about it’ ...
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September 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Charlie Kirk, Did I know You?
I know this much. I remember the day Princess Di died and man, I cried a lot! Watching Michael Jackson's funeral brought me to a sobbing mess as well and I wailed at the back of a cinema during the Fast and furious 7 movie, as the final scene came on, as a tribute to Paul Walker! As for Charlie Kirk, when I read that he had been killed, I felt like I went into shock - a state of sheer disbelief. It w...
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September 16, 2025 • 29 mins
What good is encouragement? Seriously, what words do? Can they cause a poor Filipino boy, the youngest of eight siblings, with one grieved and penniless parent, struggling to provide for him, to follow his dreams, from dire to doctor?
Let me ask a different question. Have you ever seen those moving videos of ‘Sponsor Mum's’ meeting up for the first time with their now grown-up ‘Sponsor child,’ from that third world country and th...
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September 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Have you ever heard of a day coming, when people will be separated into two groups known as the sheep or the goats? I’m convinced, there will be such a day and I know what side I want to be on, but it will all depend on my generosity. Generosity is an interesting thing and I believe it has its rewards.
In this episode, I share of a kind, kiwi man who just died the other day and I believe he would have been overwhelmed by the trea...
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August 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Do you have a broken history?
What if I told you that you can let it be dead and buried and as it decomposes, it can push up some beautiful roses! (That’s a paraphrased line I stole from Switchfoot’s front man by the way but I love it.)
Speaking of history, do you sometimes feel that you had to grow up too fast or that you forgot somewhere along the line what it felt like to just be childlike and carefree and have fun and enjoy l...
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July 29, 2025 • 30 mins
I am certainly no theologian and I’m far from ‘religious’ but I have definitely had more than my fair share of what I call super natural experiences, including ones that have unquestionably cemented in me that – Yes! Jesus is most definitely coming back!
When? Well now, that’s a big can of worms because apparently there are all sorts of opinions out there, even amongst those who are smart and educated (unlike myself.)
How can I...
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July 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Have you ever gone for a walk that turned into a 'yelling at the sky, nobody cares, crying out loud’ walk? I have. Very recently! My cry walk included getting completely lost and fearing I might fall into a sinkhole and no one would ever find me. It also included judging a handful of human beings, (at their worst) who showed me they did not care, as well as being awe-filled by the One who, on the contrary, showed me (at His best) t...
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July 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Have you ever just needed a special little something? Even an uplift to boost your faith or give you hope that Somebody up there actually cares? Maybe it wasn’t even anything major (or maybe it was) and suddenly, Whalah! Like a tap from a fairy godmothers wand, God shows up and blesses you big time. In fact, it hits you like a big surging wave of love and you feel like, if you looked up, you’d see God giving you a wink like, “Yep, ...
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June 17, 2025 • 32 mins
I hope my words are helpful to you today on this episode and bring you hope because you know sometimes, words can do the opposite. They can bring pain. They can be like arrows aimed right at our heart. They can penetrate and embed themselves and really, really hurt.
Tonight I wanna share the art of arrow bouncing.
I also ask the question: Do you think there’s a difference between hurt and offence? And: What do we do with these?
A...
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June 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Have you ever felt like you just wish you could go back, like in time and be re born? Like start life over? A ‘take two’ / try again? Make it all different. Better! Well, I have. As in, I have felt like that. So, I did. I started over. It was an actual event that happened and it was so significant I recorded the date and called it my second birth-day!
It was quite a wee while after my rebellious teen-aged years, when on any given ...
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May 20, 2025 • 28 mins
Wahanga rima tekau! That’s right, episode number 50 - celebrating the April May Gems Radio Show and Podcast JUBILEE!
To thank YOU for your support, I’d like to offer you the chance to WIN some 50th Episode celebration presents so be sure to tune in and have a listen to the 5.0 list of fave songs from the last 50 episodes, including one from the Extra Terrestrial episode, one from the epic ‘on location episode’ concert in Christch...
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May 6, 2025 • 30 mins
A few weeks ago I wrote two little words up on a huge whiteboard that was positioned on a wall, in a palliative care ward. Right in the middle of a bunch of quotes and nice sayings I wrote, just two small words. “Jesus sees.” The next day someone had rubbed those words out, from on that whiteboard. Only those two words. So, I wrote them up there again, and I continued to, every day that I walked onto that ward, until it stopped bei...
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April 22, 2025 • 34 mins
A few nights ago I had a dream. In the dream, a man by the name of Jules Riding (of whom I knew nothing about) was sitting across from me in the Fresh Fm Studios in Nelson. I woke up and emailed this Jules person and two days later, I was interviewing him, just hours before he shot off to Hokitika to begin his New Zealand Tour!
I had no idea he was a NZ household name, having produced 12 albums, two of which have been awarded 'Go...
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April 8, 2025 • 31 mins
“I hope it all works out.” “I hope I’m gonna be ok.” “I hope things get better...” - Sheesh, that all sounds like a ‘pie in the sky kinda hope’ to me. The truth is that sometimes things don’t work out, no matter how much we ‘hope’ for them to and sometimes things really don’t feel ok and ‘we’ don’t feel ok and sometimes things just don’t appear to get any better and even if they do, it can sometimes take a really long time and no ...
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March 25, 2025 • 27 mins
An old brown envelope...addressed to you! What do you do? Open it of course! Or in this case, I'll do the honours and I'll just let it be read out loud to you so you can hear the words and hopefully, let them soak in, to your heart and be blessed to know, just how loved you are. What about love after hurt? What if there is so much hurt in your past that your past can be symbolised as a monumental mountain that you know you could ne...
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March 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Who on earth came up with the idea of a Worldwide International Day of Happiness? Well, I can tell you it was someone who was born into a circumstance that most of us would not likely wish for! The idea of this International Happiness Day was suggested however, to ‘increase’ happiness. - Go figure! Anyhow, the United Nations accepted the proposal and so now, it’s a thing! Celebrating happiness, all over the globe, every March. And ...
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February 24, 2025 • 30 mins
On location for the PINK FLOYD Orchestrated World tour – ECLIPSE, in Christchurch NZ, I do declare faithful listener, that I “WISH YOU WERE HERE!”. I ask... “Have you become COMFORTABLY NUMB?” as I ponder the bricks that we build, that create THE WALL’s in our life, likely to protect our own hearts but that ultimately shut the very one that can heal it, out.
I also ask if you believe that “IF YOU DON’T EAT YOUR MEAT, YOU CAN'T HA...
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