Giddy Up with Lesa: Empower Your Life – Divine Daughterhood

Finding Strength and Grace through Trials

In this week's Giddy Up segment, the Lesa delivers a heartfelt message from a parking lot, sharing insights from a recent podcast with Amy Seiffert. The discussion emphasizes not placing divine expectations on one’s spouse and drawing love and support from God. The host also recounts her own emotional year battling stage one breast cancer, advocating for surrendering fears to God's will and allowing oneself to mourn and feel sadness. She encourages listeners to face hardships with courage and grace, expressing gratitude for their support.

00:00 Introduction and Apologies

00:27 Key Takeaways from Podcast with Amy Seifert

02:44 Personal Journey with Breast Cancer

04:46 Emotional Reflections and Gratitude

05:52 Conclusion and Encouragement

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Episode Transcript

Speaker (00:03):
Welcome to this week's Giddy Up segment.
I am so thankful that you're here andI'm going to apologize for the audio and
maybe the visual as well, if you're onYouTube, but I am sitting in a parking
lot, I'm going to have lunch with somefriends and I needed to get this done.
I have some really good news.
I'm going to share with youat the end, but I also just

(00:24):
wanted to take this segment to.
kind of do a key takeaway fromthe podcast that I did, um,
on Tuesday with Amy Seifert.
She was so amazing.
She's, she's quite the lady.
And one of the key takeaways that I don'tknow if it, if we really talked about

(00:47):
it a lot, but one thing that she saidis I can't be my husband's Holy Spirit.
And, you know, he can't be my God.
God is my God.
And I think that for like thebeginning of my married life, maybe

(01:07):
I kind of wanted to be that God.
to my hubby, John.
Maybe I want it to, um, kind of tellhim how it was and, and share, um,
biblical things and not really joinin with him and studying things.
But I think, you know, that was an issue.
But, and, and then on the flipside of that, I can't count

(01:31):
on my husband to be my God.
I mean, we are united in a unique,special covenant with God, and
we're here to, to work together.
Um, and you know, it's a blessed union,but I think I talked about in last week's.
And last Tuesday's episode, like forthose poor women who are in a marriage and

(01:56):
they don't feel like they want a divorce,maybe it's a religious reason, whatever
it is, uh, and they're feeling unloved.
What Amy's advice was to go toGod and to get your love from
him because he is our father.
We are his daughters and he adores us.
So that's what we all need to do.

(02:18):
Whether you're feeling unloved by yourhusband or your Anna loving relationship.
He's not God and you're not God.
And so I would just ask that youkind of look at your own marriage
and see if this has played outin it because it has in mine.
So I have a suspicionthat it might in yours.
So that's what I wanted.

(02:39):
The little key takeaway from,um, Saddle Up Live this week.
And then I wanted to share, the reasonI wanted to do this is I just, I
had to go in for my first diagnosticmammogram since, um, you know, having

(03:01):
them catch that stage one breast cancer.
And I'm telling you, ithas been quite a year.
Um, you know, wediscovered it early March.
So, you know, it's been almost a year now.
And.
had surgery beginning of April, startedchemo the end of April, did that till mid

(03:22):
July, immediately started radiation, andnow the only thing I have two, um, shots
left of an immune therapy that I'm doing.
So, pretty much done, but You know,the other weekend I was thinking
through things and not lookingforward to this because you're scared.

(03:43):
And, you know, and you're like,Oh, I don't want it to be there.
I don't want it to be back.
I want it to just all be gone.
And it really allowed me to utilize mynew skills of really surrendering to God.
And my coaching comes from him now, so Ican surrender and instead of being afraid.

(04:04):
of dying.
I can just say I love life.
And I am telling you when I went intoday, I was a different woman than I
was a year ago when I was in, you know,getting that diagnostic mammogram.
I, and I'm not perfect.
And I still was afraid.

(04:24):
And I still shed a little, a few tearswhen I hugged the, the technician
who, um, you know, it was really nice.
They immediately told me thatthe radiologist had looked
at it and it was all good.
And what a blessing.
Yay, God.
Thank you.
Jesus, I am so grateful and Iwanted to share that with you.

(04:46):
And, you know, I think kind of throughthis, I have, I've been so concerned
about everyone knowing I'm okay andI'm going to be okay that maybe I
haven't shared the real like sadness.
And I started to say a couple ofminutes ago that last weekend I was
sitting, I was sitting on a plane,we were coming home from Arizona
and I suddenly was hit with this.

(05:07):
Kind of a, a still quiet sadnessand it brought tears to my eyes
and I just sat there and it waskind of, and I let myself feel it.
And my husband looked at me andI told him and he said, I could
tell something was going on.
And I sat with it because we allknow we do have a need to mourn too.

(05:27):
And so that feeling, even thoughit's hard, needed to be felt.
So I felt it.
And, you know, even though it wasan unwanted feeling, I just let
it be there and serve its purpose.
And, you know, it wasone heck of a year and.
There was a little sadness ofeverything that I had gone through

(05:50):
and whoa, what just happened?
so I'll take you along on thisjourney and I'm gonna try to be
as honest as I can and sometimesI'm not because I I can't help it.
I try to cover it up I want thingsto be better than they are sometimes
or sometimes I can complain But I'mgonna do my very best because I want
to help all my listeners not I can'thelp you suffer less per se But I want

(06:16):
to be able to help you get throughhard things with courage and grace.
So I love y'all.
Thanks so much for being here.
You take good care.