E58 Stop Hiding Your Story: How Your Testimony Breaks Self-Sabotage and Helps Others Heal

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:

Jen Cudmore (00:00)
Have you been talking about what God’s done for you?

You know, your story, the challenges that you’ve overcome, it’s not just something that happened to you. It’s actually something that God wants to use to bless and inspire other people. But if you keep minimizing it or hiding it or waiting until you feel ready, you might actually unknowingly partner with the very thing that was once trying to keep you bound. remember, God cannot get the glory if you don’t talk about how he showed up for you. So today, Rosalyn is with me again. We are going to be discussing why sharing your testimony

matters. And we’re going confront some lies and some fears around speaking up. So stay with us. Here we go.

Welcome everybody. This is the show where we go below the surface. We’re going to dive into who we are and break free of who we’ve been. All that old stuff that doesn’t serve us, that holds us back and gets in the way. We are done with self-sabotage. We are moving on. So today, Roslyn and I thought it would be good to talk about why should we share our story? Like some people are really uncomfortable sharing and opening up for lots of different reasons. But we were kind of thinking lately, like we just want to encourage everybody that it is super important to make sure

that you’re talking about what God has done in your life.

Rosalynn Lasley (01:53)
Right, and I mean, our testimonies are ever evolving. There’s different chapters being added all the time, ⁓ but there is so much healing and community and knowing that there’s other people that have either gone through or become victorious over things that maybe you’re still in the thick of.

Jen Cudmore (02:00)
Yeah.

so first off, we want to just really touch on why? Why is, why does it matter? What is so important about sharing what you’ve gone through, how God has come through for you and what He’s done in your life or currently doing in your life? It could be a current story too. So I think the first one is that, you know, remember that Bible verse in Revelation, it talks about how we overcome, right, by two things. The first one is the blood of the Lamb. That’s what Jesus did for us on the cross, right? He died for our sins and then He

Rosalynn Lasley (02:25)
Mm-hmm.

Jen Cudmore (02:41)
again. But the other thing it says is, we overcome by the word of our testimony. And that means we have to actually share our testimony. We have to actually talk about it. And so, you know, there’s scriptural basis for this. If you want to be an overcomer, you’ve got to talk about the times where God has helped you overcome.

Rosalynn Lasley (03:00)
Right, and I think God uses our testimony to reach people all the time in ways that we may not even be fully aware of until we’re in glory. it’s encouraging to know that the things that we’ve been through and the way that God has shown up for us is never going to waste. God is using it all the time for our benefit and for others.

Jen Cudmore (03:04)
Mm-hmm.

And I think of also like, deserves the credit. Like we need to talk about how amazing he is. Like he is incredibly good to us. And how will people know that he would be good to them if we don’t talk about it? Right. And so especially for non-believers, you people that don’t follow Jesus, you know, they may not recognize that there are all these good gifts available in him. They don’t know how much he loves to bless his kids or like

Rosalynn Lasley (03:37)
Absolutely.

Jen Cudmore (03:50)
how

much he wants to show up in their lives if they would give him the space. And so I just think when they hear the stories about how he takes care of us and how he shows up and does really amazing things, he gets the credit for that. He gets the recognition and then it opens their eyes and they’re like, well, wait a minute, is that available to me too? Like maybe I want to know about this God.

Rosalynn Lasley (04:10)
Right. And I think it really helps too when we can share about the things that have been difficult in our lives and use that to magnify the goodness of God because, you know, people assume, especially if they don’t have a personal relationship with the Lord, like how can you serve a God who allows X, Y, and Z? How can you serve a God who, allows suffering? And when we can sincerely praise Him for what He is doing in the midst of

difficult things, you know, it draws people to him because he is still good even when life can be hard.

Jen Cudmore (04:44)
Exactly. And unfortunately, people misunderstand him and who he is, and they can sometimes even blame him and say that bad things happen. It’s his fault. Or ⁓ how could a good God allow this kind of thing? And it’s just a lack of understanding. ⁓ And there are some deep questions that we do have to wrestle with at times. But ⁓ yeah, they need to see what’s possible. They need to see, you know, hey, I’m not on my own in this. know, God can help me

Rosalynn Lasley (05:12)
Absolutely.

Jen Cudmore (05:13)
Something that I haven’t pondered too deeply, it’s got me curious.

A lot of women are just uncomfortable talking in general because vulnerability is I mean there’s a real thing but people could laugh at you or make fun of you or not believe you and so Sometimes women are silent ⁓ or they say you know they might take the cop out of I’m an introvert or I’m shy right? ⁓ Well ultimately like what if your silence is actually costing more than your vulnerability would cost like you have the ⁓

Rosalynn Lasley (05:37)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (05:47)
opportunity to bless somebody and inspire them and give them the courage and the faith that they might need to go through a tough situation. But if you don’t speak up, then they miss out on that, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (05:59)
Right. And I think sometimes we limit ourselves to those in our immediate ⁓ sphere of influence. And so we assume that what we have to say or the stories of what we’ve been through, we’re going to be judged or they’re not going to be useful in the circles that we’re in. that’s not necessarily, maybe it’s not meant for those people. And so sure, there are people that will judge us for what we’ve struggled with or the way that, you know,

we’ve had to rely on the Lord differently than they have. There are people that will look down on us for those things, whether it be situations we’ve gotten ourselves into or just different mistakes throughout life or certain ways of thinking that differ from them. ⁓ But that’s okay. Our story may not be the one that relates to them, but there’s gonna be somebody out there that will be drawn to the Lord because of what we’ve been through and what we were willing to share.

And, you know, God may be calling somebody else to share their story, to be a blessing to somebody else, but they’re afraid until they see people like us that are being bold and willing to say, listen, I’m not perfect. My life has been messy. I’ve made mistakes. I’m still making mistakes. ⁓ I’ve had to have God rescue me from my own doing over and over and over again. And he still has and he still loves me. And he hasn’t written me off because I’m

Jen Cudmore (07:05)
Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (07:23)
one mistake away from just totally blowing it. And so then the next woman who feels like, okay, I have a story to share of how God has blessed me and how God has saw me through my mistakes and my hardships. It just continues this ripple effect of blessing because people are willing to be the one to say, hey, listen, I don’t have it all figured out, but here’s the guy that does.

Jen Cudmore (07:47)
I mean, that’s really the point. Like it’s not about us, right? It’s not about you. It’s about God and how amazing he is and all of the, you know, his characteristics and all of his good gifts. And that’s available to everybody if they would just be interested in developing that relationship with him. And so if you’re being silent, typically it’s because of, you know, fear. You don’t, you’re afraid to speak up because you don’t want to be, you know, you think there’s going to be a negative outcome.

But what are you going to do when you stand before the Lord, you know, and he’s like, why didn’t you share your story? And you’d like, well, I was just too afraid. Right. I mean, you’re going to be really sad. That’s not going to be a fun moment for you. And so let’s not make it about ourselves. mean, but legit, I think there are some some valid fears. And so one of them, I would say, is eloquence. I know for me, this was one that I struggled with. Like, I don’t know how to say it well. I trip over my words or like, what if I don’t explain it right? And so they don’t understand.

Rosalynn Lasley (08:25)
Mm-hmm.

Yep. Right.

Jen Cudmore (08:47)
Understand it or like I had been misunderstood multiple times in my life and I started to get to this place where it’s like well I’m not gonna share anymore at all because everybody twists my words or you know, whatever and that was totally wrong Like I just had to keep pushing through and being like, okay So what if somebody misunderstood me that one time? Most everybody else caught it right and just not focus on the once or twice that it didn’t go well But focus on the good that came out of it and plus you have to keep practicing like

Rosalynn Lasley (09:09)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (09:17)
So maybe you legit are not very good at communicating who cares? It’s not a big deal like there’s nothing in scripture that says when you speak I expect you to be eloquent. It’s just not there

Rosalynn Lasley (09:17)
Yeah.

Right. Well,

like, was it Moses that had a stutter or speech impediment? Like, we all have different hangups and how we can share a story, whether it be not knowing where to start and where to leave off or, you know, a speech impediment or language barriers or ⁓ just not knowing, like, is it, am I over sharing? Am I undersharing? ⁓

Jen Cudmore (09:32)
There you go.

That’s right.

Rosalynn Lasley (09:52)
but God will use it if he’s calling you to share. And he is, because it’s in scripture, he is calling all of us to share our testimony. He’s going to use it. And there’s nothing that we can do to mess up the will of God in our lives and in our testimony.

Jen Cudmore (10:10)
I think like the first step to that, honestly, let’s get real. You’re not going to do it great every time. You may not even do it great five or 10 times. It doesn’t matter. Like God doesn’t care if you’re eloquent when you share it. And even if there are certain people that don’t get it, there are going to be people who do. Or maybe in the moment, all God cares about is the fact that you actually were brave enough to practice. Like you chose not to let fear stop you regardless of the outcome. So there is always purpose in it.

Rosalynn Lasley (10:16)
Mm-mm.

Jen Cudmore (10:40)
Like you said, God is always gonna bring something good out of it and let’s not get hung up on the wrong things. Let’s not make it about ourselves and what we’re afraid of and what people might say or not say, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (10:49)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (10:53)
I don’t want to make too light of this. Let me be clear. I do understand that nervousness of sharing and just wondering if it’s going to be worth it. So just keep telling yourself it’s going to be worth it. It’s going to be worth it. Just believe that when you share, God will use it and you will, I think you’ll be amazed. Okay.

Rosalynn Lasley (11:12)
I just think some of it can

also be generational too, ⁓ there is a generation of people where you don’t share what’s going on at home. You don’t air your dirty laundry. It’s like we’re identifying our flaws and we’re parading them around town and it’s messy. And that’s not the case. There is a…

Jen Cudmore (11:16)
Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (11:33)
a time and a place and a way to go about sharing the difficulties and what God has done in our life. so there’s that balance of not oversharing, but also not being so afraid to let people know that there is a messiness to all of our lives in some way, shape or form. ⁓ And that’s what we’re asking, what God is calling us to share is those places where we’ve needed Him to come in and refine our story.

Jen Cudmore (11:51)
Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (12:00)
and to rescue us and to make something beautiful out of the messes that we’ve made in life.

Jen Cudmore (12:06)
And let me just say, as someone who has overshared a few times in my life, guess what? You will get past it. It doesn’t ruin your life or ruin your story or ruin your reputation. It’s okay if once in a while you overshare while you try to learn that balance. But more times than not, your story is going to make the difference in somebody else’s life. So we have to choose not to sit in fear, sit in silence. Don’t let that prevent you.

Rosalynn Lasley (12:11)
and

Jen Cudmore (12:34)
you from blessing and helping somebody else. Even if your voice is shaking because you’re so nervous to speak up in a group, who cares? Like it doesn’t matter. There’s power behind story. So much power when you share it can set other people free. so I think another really big point though is

Rosalynn Lasley (12:36)
Amen.

Absolutely.

Jen Cudmore (12:54)
It’s not just maybe we’re afraid or we, you know, kind of shy about it. But I think sometimes when we when we talk about our mistakes, we still feel an element of shame. Wouldn’t you agree? And so sometimes we don’t want to talk about the icky stuff because we’re like people might judge us or we just simply like we still haven’t maybe fully forgiven ourselves and we’re still sitting in a little bit of condemnation like, man, I really regret that I did that thing. But look how God

Rosalynn Lasley (13:07)
⁓ Absolutely.

Jen Cudmore (13:24)
showed up.

Rosalynn Lasley (13:25)
Right.

there’s also the fear of like people using our story against us because there’s the pain of maybe mistakes we’ve made or ways that we’ve let people down or any of that stuff. And so if people know at the core of who we are that we are imperfect and we have made these mistakes, like what are they going to do with that information? Are they going to use it against us? Is it going to be a blessing? You know, I don’t know. So it’s tricky trying to know.

Jen Cudmore (13:31)
⁓ sure.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (13:54)
where’s the appropriate place to share these kinds of things too.

Jen Cudmore (13:57)
I think it can definitely sometimes be tricky. think, you know, just continue to lean into wisdom and discernment and asking God to give you insight of, you know, the right group of people to share the thing with. Or maybe, maybe you just need to pull the one person aside and be like, hey, let me share this with you in private so that it, you know, I do think there are a few things that are not necessarily,

a good idea to share in public because ⁓ in general the public may not fully understand the whole situation, right? So definitely you want to apply some wisdom and discernment when you share and ⁓ be a little bit careful. But at the same time, we can’t let that stop us from speaking up. So and I also think that maybe getting a little advice from somebody else might be helpful, too. If you’re not quite sure, if you’re not quite comfortable, ask somebody else like how much of this story

Rosalynn Lasley (14:40)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (14:50)
would be okay to share and have somebody else help you flush out where to put those lines and draw the boundary, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (14:57)
Absolutely.

Jen Cudmore (14:57)
⁓ So.

definitely get some help if you’re not quite sure, but then also if you’re still feeling a little bit of shame, make sure you deal with that, right? Go back and look at your heart, talk to the Lord about it because we know that shame thrives in secrecy, right? It’s got to be brought into the light. It’s got to be dealt with because it’s in isolation that it festers and grows. And so let’s bring it forward. Maybe just start with ⁓ one person and you can grow bigger over time. And that’s the other thing too is like you don’t have

Rosalynn Lasley (15:26)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (15:28)
to the whole world with your story. Like you want to be careful to pick and choose who’s actually going to benefit from it because again, it’s not about you. It’s about helping that other person. So what’s the motive behind you speaking up? Like if you’re, if you went through a similar situation that you know another woman is struggling with by all means help her give her some inspiration from how God helped you overcome it. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

Rosalynn Lasley (15:31)
Right.

Thank you.

Next.

Right, absolutely. And it’s not meant to be like we’re just dwelling on our mistakes or the painful things that we’ve been through. It’s meant to be an encouragement and a tool to help draw others to God and the goodness and the way he has healed or is working on healing our hearts and our souls.

Jen Cudmore (16:00)
Yes.

Rosalynn Lasley (16:15)
Like what are we gonna do with it and why? And being careful with who we entrust with our story like you were saying.

Jen Cudmore (16:24)
Yeah, motive is really important. Like it’s always got to be about blessing someone else, inspiring somebody else, helping them through a tough time. That’s why we share, right? It’s about growing their faith and speaking life into them. that’s got to be the purpose behind what you, your story when you tell it. ⁓ so, you know, me, I love to talk about where we get stuck in lies, labels and limitations. And so I want to cover a couple of things that I think women can struggle with when it comes to

why they don’t want to share their story or why they might feel a little fear. ⁓ The first one that came to mind is that I have…

heard a phrase along the lines of, well, it’s not my job to share about the Lord because it like there are pastors for that, right? There are, that’s the responsibility of the leaders and the teachers in the church. They’re the ones that are supposed to be spreading the gospel and teaching about all the cool things that God did. And it’s sort of like just the average Christian. That’s not what I’m called to do. And I would totally disagree with that phrase.

Rosalynn Lasley (17:30)
Yeah, me too.

I can’t imagine what the world would be like if we left all of the learning about the goodness of God into the hands of clergy. The world would miss out on so much because there’s a multitude of people that will never dawn the doors of a church, but they may grow a personal relationship with the Lord because we were willing to speak the truth about

Jen Cudmore (17:41)
Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (17:56)
who he is and what he’s done for us.

Jen Cudmore (17:58)
Yeah, exactly. And just living our daily lives, right?

Normal activities like going to the grocery store there’s just so many different ways in our Normal day-to-day activities where we have the opportunity to share about Jesus Not necessarily with the intent of we’ve got to get them saved right and make disciples like the Great Commission But we’re also there like just to be a blessing encourage people inspire people. Maybe God has a word for them You know, maybe God wants to use you to speak like

into them. So yeah, for sure it’s never just the responsibility of the church leaders.

Rosalynn Lasley (18:31)
No, no,

think far from that. think the church leaders do have obviously a grand responsibility in preaching and sharing the gospel, but we are those that carry it out into the world also.

Jen Cudmore (18:39)
huh.

And I’ve also heard a cop out of like, well, I didn’t hear the Lord tell me to speak in the moment. And I’m like, does he always have to tap you on the shoulder and say, now’s the time, open your mouth? Like we should sort of be in tune with the situations that we’re walking through every day and like take some responsibility here and be like, he doesn’t have to tell you every time you’re supposed to open your mouth. That’s not how it works either.

Rosalynn Lasley (18:49)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, and how often do we run our mouth about anything and everything else? You know, politics or just topics that we’re passionate about or, sports teams or any of that stuff that we run our mouth. Anytime we’ve been given the opportunity, people will talk for hours on end about their hobbies or their kids or their grandkids or their farm or their dogs.

Jen Cudmore (19:20)
true.

Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (19:32)
If we’re willing to talk so freely about those things, why wouldn’t we talk about the greatest gift of all?

Jen Cudmore (19:36)
I think another common lie goes back to the comparison trap, which we’ve talked about in the past.

thinking that your story isn’t powerful or it’s not important like somebody else’s seems like much bigger and grander and cooler so it’s almost like ⁓ you you don’t need to speak up or your story is not worthy like you don’t have a good enough story to tell and that is a huge lie i mean there’s so many different things that have happened in your life that may not

resonate with everybody, right? But there’s going to be those few women that it will. So it’s not about whether or not it seems grand or big. It’s not about size or power or anything like that. It’s life experience carries weight, right? No matter who it is, who you are.

Rosalynn Lasley (20:20)
Right. Right. And

there’ll be women that can relate to us that can’t relate to others that have what we would consider ⁓ more grand or a crazier testimony like, wow, this was a really big transformation. Wow, they’ve really gone through some hard things. Well, sure, they have, but not everyone can relate to that. Sometimes it’s those little small moments that, add up to a beautiful testimony of

Jen Cudmore (20:36)
Yes.

Exactly.

Rosalynn Lasley (20:45)
the goodness of God that make just as powerful transformation in the lives of somebody else as those that have the, shocking type of testimony that people are like, wow, I can’t believe that you’ve been through that.

Jen Cudmore (20:57)
Yeah, I mean, and I get that people are drawn to things that are more dramatic, but it doesn’t have to be loud and dramatic and flashy. Like that was never the point. The point was how did God show up? What did he do? How did he help you? Right. And that can be in what we would classify as a big way or a small way. doesn’t matter how we classify it. What matters is that he showed up and he saved us from whatever that was. Right.

Rosalynn Lasley (21:25)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (21:26)
I also think another common lie is I’m not ready yet. Right. And that kind of goes back to the whole, don’t know how to put it in the right order or like, I’m not a good speaker. I’m not a good communicator. Those kinds of lies. Okay. Well, maybe you’re not a good communicator, but you can become one. Right. And you, so to use that is really a cop out because everyone is capable of learning how to communicate well if they would choose to learn.

Rosalynn Lasley (21:30)
Mm.

Right.

That’s something that I find myself saying frequently at work is, you know, some of my team will compare themselves to each other and they’ll say like, I’m not as good at this as so and so, or I’m not as good at training as so and so. And my response is always, then practice, you’ll get better with practice. So instead of it being a cop out where like, well, I don’t want to train the new people because I’m not as good at it as so and so. Like, okay, well, you’ll get better at it the more times you do it.

Jen Cudmore (22:12)
Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (22:21)
So go on, go ahead, go ahead do it, do it afraid. Like how often do we need to stand on the edge and jump off the diving board and do it over and over again until it’s not so scary anymore? Like the first couple of times you make that jump, sure, it’s gonna be scary. And I think depending on the magnitude of sharing, whether it’s a one-on-one conversation or in front of a crowd, you know, that fear level can…

Jen Cudmore (22:32)
Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (22:45)
wax and wane just really depending on where God is calling us to go. But the more times you face it and the more times you do it and the more practice you get at sharing your story, the easier it gets. And there comes a point where you’re like, I can’t imagine ever being afraid to do this.

Jen Cudmore (22:59)
Yeah, true. I have heard

public speakers mention no matter how many times they go on the stage, they always have that little bit of nervousness. Like I think to a point, speaking up is going to make you a little nervous. ⁓ and it’s okay that some of us never get over that, right? That small amount of nervousness. ⁓ what we want to overcome is that debilitating fear. That’s like, that stops us, right? We have to push past that. And one of the ways to do that is to practice. Like there’s so many different

Rosalynn Lasley (23:17)
Mm-hmm.

Jen Cudmore (23:30)
different ways you can practice with a small group or in front of your mirror. I’ve heard people talk about, ⁓ write it out, write out yourself some bullet points so that you can begin to memorize what you want to say. And I think that is extremely helpful too. It doesn’t matter how silly you feel talking into that mirror or repeating yourself 10 times by yourself What matters is if you are uncomfortable, then start practicing it. And I realized that that would be more like in general, your main testimony.

There’s going to be smaller stories that’ll just randomly have opportunities to be talked about. in general, I think that’s a great place to start, right? Is let’s talk about your main thing. Even write it out and practice it. And that will help you become comfortable to start speaking up in other areas and other ways and spaces.

Rosalynn Lasley (24:16)
Yeah, and it’s okay to do it scared.

Jen Cudmore (24:18)
Yes, you’ll have to.

Rosalynn Lasley (24:20)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (24:22)
So those are just a few of the lies that I came up with. I’m sure there’s a whole bunch more, but the point of this episode really was just to get you thinking about where are those places and spaces where you’ve been holding back, where maybe the Lord really wants you to start speaking up. If you’re feeling some fear around that, if you notice that you maybe have some lies around that, then you really need to dig into that, right? Because God created us to be in unity and in community. We’re supposed to interact. We’re supposed to talk and share and stories.

Inspire people stories stir their faith. And so if you’re not talking about what God’s doing in your life You really are robbing other women of the opportunity to know God better and to be able to stir their faith and be able to You know get that inspiration they need to overcome the struggles. So remember it’s not about you Remember that it’s about loving on other people and it’s about making God famous, right? We want people to know how amazing he is. And so we’ve got to talk about it.

Rosalynn Lasley (25:20)
Yeah.

And sometimes when we stop and count our blessings and really stop to think through all that God has done for us, it encourages our own faith. It reinforces the goodness of God in our own life and it draws others closer to Him in the process.

Jen Cudmore (25:29)
Right.

That’s exactly true. mean, there’s so many places in the Bible where God’s like, remember this, remember what happened here. And because he knows that we’re going to get discouraged or we’re going to get distracted and we need to come back to that. yeah. Remember life is about the Lord and what the Lord has for me and what he’s done for me and what he wants to do for me. And so I think it’s just human nature, you know, so we do need to hear even for ourselves to inspire ourselves sometimes for sure.

Rosalynn Lasley (26:01)
Yeah. Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (26:05)
But just remembering that there are people out there that do need your story. start believing that. Because the truth is, there are women out there who feel stuck, they feel discouraged, and they need to hear your story. And that will change your perspective, and that will help you be more brave, and that will help you really lean in and be like, this matters. I need to start talking about how God showed up for me.

Rosalynn Lasley (26:30)
one of my favorite things is just to kind of sit back and think about like how things come full circle and how was my life blessed because somebody else was willing to share their story with me and to think that God can do the same with my story is just kind of wild. Like, wow, really? Me? A little old me has something that can be powerful to share? Like, that’s just crazy.

Jen Cudmore (26:51)
Yeah, that’s amazing. Think of all the women that have spoken into you that inspired you. Now you get to go do that for others. That’s so great. know, jot some notes, write it out, practice it like whatever works for you, figure out what works for you. But what matters is that it’s coming from your heart because it’s not supposed to be like a rote thing that you just quote, right? It’s got to be like full of emotion. That’s what gives it the power. Like this is how God showed up. And this is the amazing thing that he did for me in this

Rosalynn Lasley (26:55)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (27:21)
situation that felt hopeless. any other thoughts Roslyn around the idea of sharing your story and talking about your testimony?

Rosalynn Lasley (27:29)
I just,

I look forward to hearing how God is going to use the story of so many women out here that have been maybe timid and afraid to share because I know that we are surrounded by a huge multitude of incredible women with incredible stories and an even more incredible God that wants to use them.

Jen Cudmore (27:50)
For sure, for sure. That is exciting.

as you go about this week, let’s explore the depths of this final thought. How can you be more brave in talking about what God has done for you and the ways God has shown up for you? What is one area where maybe you’ve been a little bit too quiet, where you’re playing it a little too safe? And who is one person that you can share part of your story with this week, this week here in the next few days? I want you to really be intentional about starting to speak up and share what you’ve been through.

try to bless somebody else. So thank you so much, friend. Have a great week. We’ll see you soon. Bye.

Rosalynn Lasley (28:27)
Bye.