September 5, 2025 • 22 mins
What if the language of divinity was hidden not in textbooks, but in the rhythm of a poem? Join us as Magdalene Patricia Balloy shares her extraordinary journey from darkness to light, revealing how faith and verse can transform pain into purpose. Discover the inspiration behind her acclaimed poetry book, God is Seeded in Man’s Soul, and learn how nurturing the seed of love within can change your world. This episode is a heartfelt invitation to listen, reflect, and awaken the sacred within.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey is Benji col Son of Alcohol from CBS Radio
and host of the syndicated talk show People of Distinction.
The talk gives you an in depth view of some
of the most dynamic, intelligent, and successful people on the planet.
Run to our website Alcohol Enterprises dot com for more info.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Email me through Benji.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
At Alcohol Enterprises dot com if you'd like to get
involved with what we have going, and as always, please
continue to like and follow our broadcasts. People of Distinction
is internationally syndicated solely due to the love and support
that you all continue to give. We're available across all
major distributors and as long as you keep following, we're
going to continue to put out the content. Now, sit
(00:47):
back and strap in because on the line with us
today we have the impressive Magdalen Patricia Bloy, and we're
going to be discussing her incredible poetry book, God is
Seated in Man's soul to bear fruit to his unconditional love.
It's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble, it's a lot of
other places, man, but most importantly, yeah, check out her
(01:08):
personal website.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And that's gonna be her name.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Very straightforward Magdalenpatriciabloy dot com. There you're gonna gather more
information on her books. Hyperlinks set it to take into
the purchasing pages.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Man, I'm telling you one stop.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Shop and notice a moment ago, I've referenced books plural,
all right. There are two other books that Magdalen has written.
One is entitled Beyond the Darkness, My Transforming Journey with Jesus,
followed by Beyond the Mystic Veil. Hope is evident Again,
it's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble, but most importantly Magdalen
(01:46):
Patricia Baloy dot com and listen. It is an absolute
pleasure to have Magdalen here on the line.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
People.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What if the language of divinity wasn't found in a textbook,
but actually in the rhythm of a poem? Now follow
me here. I love that question, and I think it's
a very interesting one to examine, and something that Magdalen
herself believes, because she believes the most profound truth, and
that is that God's love is seated within each of us,
(02:18):
and that just happens to be a story that is
best told through verse. And she's here to share her
journey from what she categorizes from a sad life of
darkness into a transformative light and how that compels her
to see the world with radical compassion. Trust me when
(02:39):
I tell you her book of poetry.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Man it is.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's more than a book, people, It is more than
a literary creation. It is an invitation to listen for
that sacred whisper within all of us.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sit back, strap in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We're gonna explore some of the poetry today, but by
the time we've concluded, you're going to need to purchase
your copies so that you can get them all. Magdalen
first and foremost, Welcome to people of distinction, and thank
you for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I'm doing great, Benji, and I'm so happy to be
sharing this with you, and I thank you for what
you said. I realized that you did read some of
my birthday, and you understand because most of the time
people don't understand the depth poet goes into to write
(03:31):
a verse. And what happened with me is that after
I had this expression, this invitation to enter into God's life,
and my whole life was changed. I was found the
embrace of God in my life, and that I couldn't
just speak about it in normal language when I felt
(03:56):
I just wanted to express it from deep within my soul.
And so this book, as the readers will understand as
they read it, it's an unfolding journey with Jesus through
my spiritual growth, and from the beginning to end, from
the beginning to end, it explains it. Thank you for that.
(04:18):
You really do understand, and I agree.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
For Listen, Magdalene, I got a secret to tell you.
I just followed the roadmap that you let down. Okay,
so I'm following your lead. Although I appreciate the kind
words you had to lay down such a wonderful map
for myself and my team to follow, and you did
just that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And thank you for everything that she said, because it
sets up my follow up question perfectly, because I love
your poetry. I love what you're talking about. But what
is interesting here is, Listen, poetry is often described as
the language of the soul, and I believe it right
as someone who has never been poetically gifted himself a
(04:58):
following it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Girl, I love it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
But I'm curious to know why was articulating this message
in verse essential for this testimony as opposed to writing everything.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
In prose, and on my first book, Beyond the Darkness,
which she mentioned, it was written in a language that
everyone can understand. But at the end of each chapter,
I would share my feelings about what I had just
explained in the chapter, and it turned out to be
a poem. So most of these poems that I had
(05:31):
this book, I in my other two books, but it
was at the end of the chapter of explanation of
my life. But this one, the Lord just wanted me
to put it together as poetry, and so that he
feels that it would be a book that people would
cheap it keepsake, and every once in a while they
(05:52):
could pull it out and read the poem again and
it will bring happiness or the love of God into
their lives by understanding what I was trying to write
through the verose Magdalene.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I said it in my intro, but of course I
didn't create it myself. It's things that we pulled from
your book of poetry. It's the metaphor of moving from
darkness to light, and I love it. Listen is it's powerful,
it's visceral, but it also isn't something new. This is
ancient and this has been utilized a number of times,
and I want to now take that and pose it
(06:26):
here in my next question in your journey, I'm curious
to know, was the visit from Jesus that you talk about.
Was it something that led you out in a sudden
or even dramatic event or was it more of a
long drawn out process that kind of gradually broke after
this long night.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, it was gradual. But as long as I explained
to you briefly before it's asked that Jesus came into
my life, I have felt the love of God before.
I was always I believed in Jesus and I believed
he was the son of God. And I was raised Catholic,
went to Catholic school. But I never had a relationship
(07:09):
with him. And part of the reason for that is
that I was not married in the church. I was married.
My husband was married four and in the Catholic faith,
he can't if you're married in the church and he was,
and you're divorced, he can't remarry in the church. But
so after I got married, I felt that I had
(07:31):
somehow in the disappointed Jesus, and so I didn't feel
close to him. I thought that I had done something wrong,
so therefore I just that night when he appeared to me,
I wasn't praying to him. I was paying to God,
the Father in heaven, and asking him please to save
my life for the sake of my very young children.
(07:53):
I didn't want to leave them mother rest. So that's
when he appeared to me. When I thought I was
falling asleep, that I didn't fall asleep. I think I
had death experience. I came out of my body and
he was standing at the foot of my bed and
with arms expended as if us tell me come company.
(08:14):
But I said, no, Lord, I want to stay place
and mistake, I don't want to go yet. And that's
when I ended up in the hospital for eleven days,
thinking all the while that I was going to die.
I was dying. I thought to myself, I hadn't shared
this posision with anyone because I thought they're going to
know that I'm lying, and I don't want to know
how dying. But when I came, I realized she had
(08:36):
given me a new experience to live with and everything,
and she was different. The flowers were writer, the sky
was bluer. The German shepherdag is to irritate me. I
just loved him. My price came out of me, and
(08:56):
that's when I started writing poetry. And then in the
first part of the book explained my first moment, how
it was like being asleep in the snow in a
long winter's night. But now that I'm awake, the sun
is warm and right. And though my body has become
a part of the third, my soul is the shell
(09:19):
that has embraced the seed. That was what I felt.
I was attack in the cold, dark place. I couldn't
see the light of God. But when he came into
my life and brought me into his light, he transformed
me so that I could see with my spiritual eyes
what I couldn't see before. Everything was the same, it
(09:42):
wasn't any difference. But I changed. I changed, and people
around me changed. So that's where the journey with the
comb started. So I don't know if I answered the
question in a way that you would want me to
answer it, but that is.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What I did, Magdalen.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You answered it better than I could have anticipated, because
what you're talking about is something that resonates profoundly. It
resonates with me, and I know it resonates with my
listening audience, and before I move on to my next question,
I'm just gonna take the opportunity, people, because I just
want to make sure you haven't forgotten. Okay, it's Amazon,
it's Barnes and Noble, but most importantly Magdalen Patricia Baloy
(10:21):
dot com. It starts with this book, God Is Seated
in Man's Soul, but it doesn't end there all right now,
the other two books may have been written first, but
I'm still gonna say it starts with God Is Seated
in Man's Soul because that's the latest and greatest, and
that's the one you want.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
To pick up.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But look into beyond the darkness, my transforming journey with
Jesus as well as beyond the mystic veil, hope is
evident again Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Magdalen, Patricia Baloy dot com.
That's where you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
My follow up, Magdalen is listen. You talked about something
incredible a moment ago. You're talking about being asleep and
being awoken and having this. It's almost a birth that
happened right right now. You're just this, You're revitalized in
a way and you're seeing things through a whole new light,
and of course that light is now coming specifically from
(11:17):
the guiding light of Jesus. And it plays perfectly into
my follow up question because you know, Magdalen, a lot
of people listening in right now, and I know a
lot of people that are going to read your poetry book.
They feel that the seed within their soul is dormant
right or buried, and they're not sure how to access it.
And I know you can relate because you had similar experiences.
(11:41):
So I want to ask you as a word of
advice to pay forward to them. What is the first
gentle step that could really that they could take to
help that seed within them grow.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yes, most people who are Christians know parts of the Bible,
and one of the things that Jesus taught when he
was with on over with his disciples, he said, we
must be true, and that I wandered through, how do
you bear fruit coming into that place of knowing that
(12:15):
you're loved? And God, the creator of the universe, placed
his seed of love within it each soul. But it's there,
it's in the dirt, but you have to nourish it.
And how do you nourish it if you put a
seed in the ground that you don't water it and
fertilize it. Well, we nourish it by getting into the woods,
(12:35):
by realizing, yeah, by realizing. None of us are perfect.
And Jesus also said he must be perfect as the
Father in heaven is perfect. And for a long time
I wondered, how could I be perfect? Nobody can be perfect,
But his perfection is talking about love. We can all
be perfect and love. We don't have to agree with
(12:58):
one another, we don't have to see it. But he's
calling us all to be perfect in love. And this
morning I usually do the Mass on my phone every morning,
and this morning they were asking Jesus which is the
most the best commandment? And the first one is love
God with all your heart, mind and soul. And you
(13:20):
need it as yourself, Denji. If we live in a
state of love, understanding and forgiveness, we would have a
beautiful world because we're all God's children. And so that's
where I'm coming from. But you have to put the
work in. You just found a seat in the ground
and anyone arose most to go. It's not going to grow,
(13:41):
it's got to nurture it. It's the same thing with
our soul, right or heart. So anyway, that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Answer, Magdalene.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I love what you're saying, and listen, I feel compelled,
and honestly, I would feel remissy if we didn't now
take everything that we're learning from you not only look inwardly,
but all also utilizing it outwardly, because listen, I don't
think I'm saying anything that's going to surprise anybody here.
But you look around the world, you look around our
(14:09):
country right now. The perception is not whether or not
that actually is, and I believe it is to a
certain degree, but the perception is we are more divided
than ever before. And I look at I have conversations
a lot of times because listen, I'm I've always been
the type of person like I live and let live man,
Like I'm I have friends from all walks of life
(14:32):
in my family and my inner circle and everything. So
for me, I don't care what your political views are.
You can be on the left, you can be on
the right, doesn't matter to me as long as we're
operating from a perspective of respect and love and compassion. Listen, man,
I live and let live. I'm good with it. But
you look at where we currently are in society, and
(14:54):
there is a lot of division, there is a lot
of hatred being spewed. And I I then look at
and here's the ironic thing is I know a lot
of people that are of Christian faith or of Catholic faith.
And you learn about this message of God in loving
thy neighbor, and then you look around You're like Magdalen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It doesn't look like there's.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
A whole lot of loving thy neighbor that's happening right now.
So that is that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So it ties back into your book, right because your
book and your poetry it you speak of sharing the
good news and I love it. But in a world
that is saturated with news and most of it bad,
how can we share this good news in a way
that feels authentic, It feels refreshing and truly transformative rather
(15:45):
than just more noise.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yes, I have to bring this up because it's very important.
But God is set in my soul, is my Swiss
that I got awarded to that poem. But the reason
when I wrote that poem this is very important. Back
in my thirties, when I was raising my kids, I
would read Ladies Home Journal and all these magazines. In ladies,
(16:12):
I remembered there was an article that said God is
dead or he never existed. I read that and I
was so with that statement that I wanted to write
a letter to the publisher. But instead, Benji, I wrote
this beautiful poem, God is seated in Mansul, and it's
(16:34):
just a long poem, but it explains where you see God.
Although the night is taught, his presence can be seen
in the sparkling rights. I'm not going to let read
they have to go in and read it themselves. But
the whole poem was about see God in the waterfalls,
God in the mountains tide, God in everything that he
(16:56):
has created. If we would just be so grateful for
being created, because He loves us and he wants to
give us all that we can just do things for
one another that would just change the world. There's a
poem in the book that I It's got. It's about
(17:16):
every tear. If I had a dying for every human tear,
I would be a compassionate trillinear. And I had talked
about what I would do with the money, and at
the end of the book there's a poem, and I
bought fruits. Finally, but the fruit that I bore is
a lemon. And when the Lord said that I was
a lemon, I was very disappointed, because you know, you
(17:38):
get lemon, yeah, a part of a lemon, and this
is a lemon. So in prayer I asked him, I said, Lord,
I'm a lemon. And Benji, this is the truth. I
was walking in those days. I lived in West Hills
in Los Angeles, and so I walked from my home
to church every morning. It was a mile and a
(17:59):
halfwards three miles. Then I would get dressed in the words.
But I'm walking and talking to the Lord and saying,
but Lord, I'm a lemon. And he explained it to
me in this way. He said, Madlin, lemons make a
refreshing drink, and it is it gives flavor to food. You, Madlin,
(18:20):
you will give. You will give drink to my words
for those who are thirsty, and you will be nourishing
to those who need to hear your words. Because that's
what my poem is all about. It's about going within
and it's not just me. The love of God is
within every human soul. But if we don't, as I
(18:41):
said before, I don't want to repeat myself. But if
we don't nurture it, when we nurture it. And then
there's a beautiful poem that I would recommend that you read.
It's called Love. When I think of God, I think
of love. You cannot God anyway. I don't want to
recite it, but it's so beautiful because it talks about
(19:01):
how when we reflect the love of God, it touches everyone.
And that's why after my husband died, I got into ministry.
I was very involved in euchlistic ministry at the hospital.
I ran a prayer group. I was a magnificult women
for a fellowship, and I was very because I wanted
to give of myself and so when we give them ourselves,
(19:24):
it comes back to us double fold. So that's what
everyone needs to know. We are all part of God's world,
and we are put together to learn from one another
and to forgive our love. We don't always have to
bee you. We're different. One time I said to the
Lord in my quiet time. I said, Lord, you know
what you made a mistake. You made everybody so different,
(19:46):
the blacks from the whites, and the wives of life,
the Puerto Ricans. And he said to me Madlyn, I'm infinite.
No one could see if I only made one race
would see me because I'm infamous. I'm in every human
soul that is on there. It speaks to my heart, Benji,
and that's where I get my poems from.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Listen, Magdalen, you are speaking to everyone's heart right now,
because what you're saying is so profound and fantastic words
of wisdom. Right to go back quickly to the message
of you being a lemon. What I love about that
not only is it just a beautifully descriptive message, but
also it lends to the notion of really perception being
(20:30):
being everything right, because yeah, from one instance and how
you initially looked at it to view yourself being a lemon,
and you're like, no, I'm sour, I'm distasteful. But then
you shift perception and that exact same lemon is now
a gift.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Is now something can actually be cherished.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And then I think embodies so much not only of
your poetry, but fantastic messages for the world, right and
something that we all can benefit from. So listen, everyone
listening in right now. If during this conversation you've had
any moments where you felt that that stir of recognition
(21:08):
when you felt that sense of a seed within you
waiting for light. Trust me when I tell you, man,
Magdalen's book is your invitation to water it. This is something,
This is something profound, man, And I'm gonna say it again,
although I know I don't have to remember, just for
people say, yeah, don't forget. It's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble,
(21:32):
it's Magdalenpatricia Baloy dot com. Man, I'm telling you this
is a fantastic journey for you to embark upon, and
it's a wonderful gift for you to get for someone
else to add to their shelf as well. Magdalen, thank
you for sharing your lyrical testimony and reminding us that, listen,
this isn't about perfection. It is about paying attention to
(21:56):
the love that's already planted within us. This is a
remarkable book of poetry. Head on over, pick it up. Magdalen, Listen,
I really do mean it. You are the embodiment of
a person of distinction and this has been a true honor.
Thank you for being a guest with us discussing it all.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Thank you, Benji. I appreciate your understanding and your generosity
and suit lilogy. It's been my pleasure and I thank
you for who you are.
Hey is Benji col Son of Alcohol from CBS Radio
and host of the syndicated talk show People of Distinction.
The talk gives you an in depth view of some
of the most dynamic, intelligent, and successful people on the planet.
Run to our website Alcohol Enterprises dot com for more info.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Email me through Benji.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
At Alcohol Enterprises dot com if you'd like to get
involved with what we have going, and as always, please
continue to like and follow our broadcasts. People of Distinction
is internationally syndicated solely due to the love and support
that you all continue to give. We're available across all
major distributors and as long as you keep following, we're
going to continue to put out the content. Now, sit
(00:47):
back and strap in because on the line with us
today we have the impressive Magdalen Patricia Bloy, and we're
going to be discussing her incredible poetry book, God is
Seated in Man's soul to bear fruit to his unconditional love.
It's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble, it's a lot of
other places, man, but most importantly, yeah, check out her
(01:08):
personal website.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And that's gonna be her name.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Very straightforward Magdalenpatriciabloy dot com. There you're gonna gather more
information on her books. Hyperlinks set it to take into
the purchasing pages.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Man, I'm telling you one stop.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Shop and notice a moment ago, I've referenced books plural,
all right. There are two other books that Magdalen has written.
One is entitled Beyond the Darkness, My Transforming Journey with Jesus,
followed by Beyond the Mystic Veil. Hope is evident Again,
it's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble, but most importantly Magdalen
(01:46):
Patricia Baloy dot com and listen. It is an absolute
pleasure to have Magdalen here on the line.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
People.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What if the language of divinity wasn't found in a textbook,
but actually in the rhythm of a poem? Now follow
me here. I love that question, and I think it's
a very interesting one to examine, and something that Magdalen
herself believes, because she believes the most profound truth, and
that is that God's love is seated within each of us,
(02:18):
and that just happens to be a story that is
best told through verse. And she's here to share her
journey from what she categorizes from a sad life of
darkness into a transformative light and how that compels her
to see the world with radical compassion. Trust me when
(02:39):
I tell you her book of poetry.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Man it is.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's more than a book, people, It is more than
a literary creation. It is an invitation to listen for
that sacred whisper within all of us.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sit back, strap in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We're gonna explore some of the poetry today, but by
the time we've concluded, you're going to need to purchase
your copies so that you can get them all. Magdalen
first and foremost, Welcome to people of distinction, and thank
you for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I'm doing great, Benji, and I'm so happy to be
sharing this with you, and I thank you for what
you said. I realized that you did read some of
my birthday, and you understand because most of the time
people don't understand the depth poet goes into to write
(03:31):
a verse. And what happened with me is that after
I had this expression, this invitation to enter into God's life,
and my whole life was changed. I was found the
embrace of God in my life, and that I couldn't
just speak about it in normal language when I felt
(03:56):
I just wanted to express it from deep within my soul.
And so this book, as the readers will understand as
they read it, it's an unfolding journey with Jesus through
my spiritual growth, and from the beginning to end, from
the beginning to end, it explains it. Thank you for that.
(04:18):
You really do understand, and I agree.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
For Listen, Magdalene, I got a secret to tell you.
I just followed the roadmap that you let down. Okay,
so I'm following your lead. Although I appreciate the kind
words you had to lay down such a wonderful map
for myself and my team to follow, and you did
just that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And thank you for everything that she said, because it
sets up my follow up question perfectly, because I love
your poetry. I love what you're talking about. But what
is interesting here is, Listen, poetry is often described as
the language of the soul, and I believe it right
as someone who has never been poetically gifted himself a
(04:58):
following it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Girl, I love it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
But I'm curious to know why was articulating this message
in verse essential for this testimony as opposed to writing everything.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
In prose, and on my first book, Beyond the Darkness,
which she mentioned, it was written in a language that
everyone can understand. But at the end of each chapter,
I would share my feelings about what I had just
explained in the chapter, and it turned out to be
a poem. So most of these poems that I had
(05:31):
this book, I in my other two books, but it
was at the end of the chapter of explanation of
my life. But this one, the Lord just wanted me
to put it together as poetry, and so that he
feels that it would be a book that people would
cheap it keepsake, and every once in a while they
(05:52):
could pull it out and read the poem again and
it will bring happiness or the love of God into
their lives by understanding what I was trying to write
through the verose Magdalene.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I said it in my intro, but of course I
didn't create it myself. It's things that we pulled from
your book of poetry. It's the metaphor of moving from
darkness to light, and I love it. Listen is it's powerful,
it's visceral, but it also isn't something new. This is
ancient and this has been utilized a number of times,
and I want to now take that and pose it
(06:26):
here in my next question in your journey, I'm curious
to know, was the visit from Jesus that you talk about.
Was it something that led you out in a sudden
or even dramatic event or was it more of a
long drawn out process that kind of gradually broke after
this long night.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, it was gradual. But as long as I explained
to you briefly before it's asked that Jesus came into
my life, I have felt the love of God before.
I was always I believed in Jesus and I believed
he was the son of God. And I was raised Catholic,
went to Catholic school. But I never had a relationship
(07:09):
with him. And part of the reason for that is
that I was not married in the church. I was married.
My husband was married four and in the Catholic faith,
he can't if you're married in the church and he was,
and you're divorced, he can't remarry in the church. But
so after I got married, I felt that I had
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somehow in the disappointed Jesus, and so I didn't feel
close to him. I thought that I had done something wrong,
so therefore I just that night when he appeared to me,
I wasn't praying to him. I was paying to God,
the Father in heaven, and asking him please to save
my life for the sake of my very young children.
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I didn't want to leave them mother rest. So that's
when he appeared to me. When I thought I was
falling asleep, that I didn't fall asleep. I think I
had death experience. I came out of my body and
he was standing at the foot of my bed and
with arms expended as if us tell me come company.
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But I said, no, Lord, I want to stay place
and mistake, I don't want to go yet. And that's
when I ended up in the hospital for eleven days,
thinking all the while that I was going to die.
I was dying. I thought to myself, I hadn't shared
this posision with anyone because I thought they're going to
know that I'm lying, and I don't want to know
how dying. But when I came, I realized she had
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given me a new experience to live with and everything,
and she was different. The flowers were writer, the sky
was bluer. The German shepherdag is to irritate me. I
just loved him. My price came out of me, and
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that's when I started writing poetry. And then in the
first part of the book explained my first moment, how
it was like being asleep in the snow in a
long winter's night. But now that I'm awake, the sun
is warm and right. And though my body has become
a part of the third, my soul is the shell
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that has embraced the seed. That was what I felt.
I was attack in the cold, dark place. I couldn't
see the light of God. But when he came into
my life and brought me into his light, he transformed
me so that I could see with my spiritual eyes
what I couldn't see before. Everything was the same, it
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wasn't any difference. But I changed. I changed, and people
around me changed. So that's where the journey with the
comb started. So I don't know if I answered the
question in a way that you would want me to
answer it, but that is.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What I did, Magdalen.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You answered it better than I could have anticipated, because
what you're talking about is something that resonates profoundly. It
resonates with me, and I know it resonates with my
listening audience, and before I move on to my next question,
I'm just gonna take the opportunity, people, because I just
want to make sure you haven't forgotten. Okay, it's Amazon,
it's Barnes and Noble, but most importantly Magdalen Patricia Baloy
(10:21):
dot com. It starts with this book, God Is Seated
in Man's Soul, but it doesn't end there all right now,
the other two books may have been written first, but
I'm still gonna say it starts with God Is Seated
in Man's Soul because that's the latest and greatest, and
that's the one you want.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
To pick up.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But look into beyond the darkness, my transforming journey with
Jesus as well as beyond the mystic veil, hope is
evident again Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Magdalen, Patricia Baloy dot com.
That's where you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
My follow up, Magdalen is listen. You talked about something
incredible a moment ago. You're talking about being asleep and
being awoken and having this. It's almost a birth that
happened right right now. You're just this, You're revitalized in
a way and you're seeing things through a whole new light,
and of course that light is now coming specifically from
(11:17):
the guiding light of Jesus. And it plays perfectly into
my follow up question because you know, Magdalen, a lot
of people listening in right now, and I know a
lot of people that are going to read your poetry book.
They feel that the seed within their soul is dormant
right or buried, and they're not sure how to access it.
And I know you can relate because you had similar experiences.
(11:41):
So I want to ask you as a word of
advice to pay forward to them. What is the first
gentle step that could really that they could take to
help that seed within them grow.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yes, most people who are Christians know parts of the Bible,
and one of the things that Jesus taught when he
was with on over with his disciples, he said, we
must be true, and that I wandered through, how do
you bear fruit coming into that place of knowing that
(12:15):
you're loved? And God, the creator of the universe, placed
his seed of love within it each soul. But it's there,
it's in the dirt, but you have to nourish it.
And how do you nourish it if you put a
seed in the ground that you don't water it and
fertilize it. Well, we nourish it by getting into the woods,
(12:35):
by realizing, yeah, by realizing. None of us are perfect.
And Jesus also said he must be perfect as the
Father in heaven is perfect. And for a long time
I wondered, how could I be perfect? Nobody can be perfect,
But his perfection is talking about love. We can all
be perfect and love. We don't have to agree with
(12:58):
one another, we don't have to see it. But he's
calling us all to be perfect in love. And this
morning I usually do the Mass on my phone every morning,
and this morning they were asking Jesus which is the
most the best commandment? And the first one is love
God with all your heart, mind and soul. And you
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need it as yourself, Denji. If we live in a
state of love, understanding and forgiveness, we would have a
beautiful world because we're all God's children. And so that's
where I'm coming from. But you have to put the
work in. You just found a seat in the ground
and anyone arose most to go. It's not going to grow,
(13:41):
it's got to nurture it. It's the same thing with
our soul, right or heart. So anyway, that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Answer, Magdalene.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I love what you're saying, and listen, I feel compelled,
and honestly, I would feel remissy if we didn't now
take everything that we're learning from you not only look inwardly,
but all also utilizing it outwardly, because listen, I don't
think I'm saying anything that's going to surprise anybody here.
But you look around the world, you look around our
(14:09):
country right now. The perception is not whether or not
that actually is, and I believe it is to a
certain degree, but the perception is we are more divided
than ever before. And I look at I have conversations
a lot of times because listen, I'm I've always been
the type of person like I live and let live man,
Like I'm I have friends from all walks of life
(14:32):
in my family and my inner circle and everything. So
for me, I don't care what your political views are.
You can be on the left, you can be on
the right, doesn't matter to me as long as we're
operating from a perspective of respect and love and compassion. Listen, man,
I live and let live. I'm good with it. But
you look at where we currently are in society, and
(14:54):
there is a lot of division, there is a lot
of hatred being spewed. And I I then look at
and here's the ironic thing is I know a lot
of people that are of Christian faith or of Catholic faith.
And you learn about this message of God in loving
thy neighbor, and then you look around You're like Magdalen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It doesn't look like there's.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
A whole lot of loving thy neighbor that's happening right now.
So that is that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So it ties back into your book, right because your
book and your poetry it you speak of sharing the
good news and I love it. But in a world
that is saturated with news and most of it bad,
how can we share this good news in a way
that feels authentic, It feels refreshing and truly transformative rather
(15:45):
than just more noise.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yes, I have to bring this up because it's very important.
But God is set in my soul, is my Swiss
that I got awarded to that poem. But the reason
when I wrote that poem this is very important. Back
in my thirties, when I was raising my kids, I
would read Ladies Home Journal and all these magazines. In ladies,
(16:12):
I remembered there was an article that said God is
dead or he never existed. I read that and I
was so with that statement that I wanted to write
a letter to the publisher. But instead, Benji, I wrote
this beautiful poem, God is seated in Mansul, and it's
(16:34):
just a long poem, but it explains where you see God.
Although the night is taught, his presence can be seen
in the sparkling rights. I'm not going to let read
they have to go in and read it themselves. But
the whole poem was about see God in the waterfalls,
God in the mountains tide, God in everything that he
(16:56):
has created. If we would just be so grateful for
being created, because He loves us and he wants to
give us all that we can just do things for
one another that would just change the world. There's a
poem in the book that I It's got. It's about
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every tear. If I had a dying for every human tear,
I would be a compassionate trillinear. And I had talked
about what I would do with the money, and at
the end of the book there's a poem, and I
bought fruits. Finally, but the fruit that I bore is
a lemon. And when the Lord said that I was
a lemon, I was very disappointed, because you know, you
(17:38):
get lemon, yeah, a part of a lemon, and this
is a lemon. So in prayer I asked him, I said, Lord,
I'm a lemon. And Benji, this is the truth. I
was walking in those days. I lived in West Hills
in Los Angeles, and so I walked from my home
to church every morning. It was a mile and a
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halfwards three miles. Then I would get dressed in the words.
But I'm walking and talking to the Lord and saying,
but Lord, I'm a lemon. And he explained it to
me in this way. He said, Madlin, lemons make a
refreshing drink, and it is it gives flavor to food. You, Madlin,
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you will give. You will give drink to my words
for those who are thirsty, and you will be nourishing
to those who need to hear your words. Because that's
what my poem is all about. It's about going within
and it's not just me. The love of God is
within every human soul. But if we don't, as I
(18:41):
said before, I don't want to repeat myself. But if
we don't nurture it, when we nurture it. And then
there's a beautiful poem that I would recommend that you read.
It's called Love. When I think of God, I think
of love. You cannot God anyway. I don't want to
recite it, but it's so beautiful because it talks about
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how when we reflect the love of God, it touches everyone.
And that's why after my husband died, I got into ministry.
I was very involved in euchlistic ministry at the hospital.
I ran a prayer group. I was a magnificult women
for a fellowship, and I was very because I wanted
to give of myself and so when we give them ourselves,
(19:24):
it comes back to us double fold. So that's what
everyone needs to know. We are all part of God's world,
and we are put together to learn from one another
and to forgive our love. We don't always have to
bee you. We're different. One time I said to the
Lord in my quiet time. I said, Lord, you know
what you made a mistake. You made everybody so different,
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the blacks from the whites, and the wives of life,
the Puerto Ricans. And he said to me Madlyn, I'm infinite.
No one could see if I only made one race
would see me because I'm infamous. I'm in every human
soul that is on there. It speaks to my heart, Benji,
and that's where I get my poems from.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Listen, Magdalen, you are speaking to everyone's heart right now,
because what you're saying is so profound and fantastic words
of wisdom. Right to go back quickly to the message
of you being a lemon. What I love about that
not only is it just a beautifully descriptive message, but
also it lends to the notion of really perception being
(20:30):
being everything right, because yeah, from one instance and how
you initially looked at it to view yourself being a lemon,
and you're like, no, I'm sour, I'm distasteful. But then
you shift perception and that exact same lemon is now
a gift.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Is now something can actually be cherished.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And then I think embodies so much not only of
your poetry, but fantastic messages for the world, right and
something that we all can benefit from. So listen, everyone
listening in right now. If during this conversation you've had
any moments where you felt that that stir of recognition
(21:08):
when you felt that sense of a seed within you
waiting for light. Trust me when I tell you, man,
Magdalen's book is your invitation to water it. This is something,
This is something profound, man, And I'm gonna say it again,
although I know I don't have to remember, just for
people say, yeah, don't forget. It's Amazon, it's Barnes and Noble,
(21:32):
it's Magdalenpatricia Baloy dot com. Man, I'm telling you this
is a fantastic journey for you to embark upon, and
it's a wonderful gift for you to get for someone
else to add to their shelf as well. Magdalen, thank
you for sharing your lyrical testimony and reminding us that, listen,
this isn't about perfection. It is about paying attention to
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the love that's already planted within us. This is a
remarkable book of poetry. Head on over, pick it up. Magdalen, Listen,
I really do mean it. You are the embodiment of
a person of distinction and this has been a true honor.
Thank you for being a guest with us discussing it all.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Thank you, Benji. I appreciate your understanding and your generosity
and suit lilogy. It's been my pleasure and I thank
you for who you are.
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