God Hears Her Podcast

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  • EP. 50: Mentorship

    Mentorship can show up in our lives in all sorts of ways. The truth is, we’re all being advised and led throughout our lives by many different people. But how do we know who our mentors should be? On this episode of God Hears Her, Elisa and Eryn focus on the definition of mentorship, how to pursue someone worth following, and some red flags you may experience in unhealthy mentoring relationships.

     

    Notes and Quotes:

    • “To be always a student, we’re always being mentored.”
    • Mentorship can be across generations, genders and industry. There are many ways we can be mentored in life. 
    • “There is a preparation in my heart to be mentored, and there is a preparation in your heart to be a mentor.”
    • “When we are the mentee, we need to be humble, we need to be vulnerable, and we may need to ask another person to mentor us.”
    • “When we are in the mentor role, we need to be careful that we‘re not abusing our authority toward the one who has yielded and is learning.”
    • “Mentors are the ones who are supposed to enact who God is in our lives, but they are not God.”
    • “God has never used a random stranger to correct my behavior. He’s used the people closest to me that walk life with me.”
    • “We can be mentored by a lot of people. It doesn't have to be just one person.”
    • “God uses the waiting to prepare your heart for the right person to pour into.”

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    36 min
  • EP. 49: Finding Freedom from Toxic People (Best of 2020 with Gary Thomas)

    When you read the term “toxic people,” who comes to mind? A coworker? A family member? Someone at church? Maybe it’s a group of people who feed off of one another in the worst of ways. What makes someone toxic? What’s the difference between a toxic person and someone who’s broken and needs extra love? How do you know when it’s time to walk away from a toxic person? In this “best of” episode of God Hears Her, Elisa and Eryn take us through a previous conversation with Gary Thomas who will be leading us in a discussion of how to recognize and when to walk away from toxic people.

     

    About our guest: 

    Gary Thomas is the best-selling author of over 20 books including the topic of today’s show: When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People. Gary serves on the teaching team at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, and has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 35 years. They have three adult children and a granddaughter.

     

    Notes and Quotes: 

    • “Walking away isn’t always a statement of failure; it’s a statement of strategy.”
    • If we let toxic people control our thoughts and focus, then we lose sight of the purpose God has for us.
    • “Here’s my voice, here’s my mission” . . .  and don’t let a toxic person distract you from that mission.
    • Women in their fifties will look back at the toxic people from their twenties and laugh at how insignificant those people have become in their lives.
    • “Gaslighting is when somebody makes you feel like you’re crazy when you are speaking the truth.”
    • “When you question your own sanity, they are destroying your foundation.”
    • “All toxic people are difficult, but not all difficult people are toxic.”
    • “Toxic people love to act in a toxic manner. Healthy people will occasionally act in a toxic way.”
    • “Toxic people often use toxic language. . . . They don’t want you to act like a Christian to please God, they are using your desire to please God as a weapon to control you.”

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Order Gary’s book When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3kt8eyp 
    • Free eBooklet to Download: When Violence Comes Home: Help for Victims of Spousal Abuse https://discoveryseries.org/courses/when-violence-comes-home/
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy
    • Gary's Instagram: garythomasbooks

     

    Verses Mentioned in Show: 

    • John 15:8 NIV “This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A8&version=NIV 
    • Mark 11:12–25 Jesus Curses a Fig Tree https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+11%3A12-25&version=NIV 
    • Matthew 6:33 NIV “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&version=NIV 
    • Matthew 7:6 NIV “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A6&version=NIV
    • Matthew 22:37 NIV Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A37&version=NIV 
    • Jude 1:1 NIV “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude%201&version=NIV 
    31 min
  • EP. 48: Navigating Difficult Relationships (Best of 2020 with Patricia Raybon)

    How do you navigate difficult relationships? How do you handle deep disagreements with people you love? What does it look like to deal with conflict when the person you’re at odds with is a family member or a close friend? On this “best of”  episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa revisit a previous conversation with Patricia Raybon as she shares her story of navigating a complicated relationship and offers practical wisdom for those of us who may find ourselves in a similar situation.

     

    About our guest: 

    Patricia Raybon is an award-winning author and journalist and a writer for both Our Daily Bread Ministries and DaySpring’s (in)courage Blog. She guides people into conversations on faith, race, and grace, and lives out her practical wisdom through relationships with people from different ethnic and faith backgrounds. Her most recent book is titled Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace.  

     

    Notes and Quotes: 

    • “[The topic of] race relations still confuses, worries, angers, and surprises people . . . But as I look at history, there has never been a time where people were not divided by race or ethnicity.”
    • “Our stories are not our own . . . What I discovered is that these personal stories are not mine. They give the people that read them permission to reflect on their own lives.”
    • “Every mother has a dream of what her family is going to look like, and when that dream is rejected, there is a grieving period.”
    • “The Lord encouraged me to love her [my daughter], and trust Him.”
    • “We are still able to be a family even though the details of our conflict have not been resolved.”
    • “We agreed to respect our differences, and I agreed to respect the choice she had made. Not to accept the choice, but to respect [her].”
    • “People love the stories when people find their way back to the faith, but that is not always the end of the story . . . Know that sometimes God is still writing.”
    • “When you model that respect, it invites it back.”
    • In the digital world today, we can almost always find people being hateful.
    • “Tolerance allows my family to keep going.”

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Share the love by giving this episode a 5-star rating on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Order Patricia’s Book: My First White Friend: https://amzn.to/3heKCvd
    • Order Patricia’s Book: Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace https://amzn.to/3ifqj2e
    • Free eBooklet to Download: Clinging to Hope in the Storm. https://discoveryseries.org/courses/clinging-to-hope-in-the-storm/
    • Patricia's Instagram: patriciaraybon
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    Verses Mentioned in Show: 

    • Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A26&version=NIV
    • Revelation 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2%3A4&version=NIV
    24 min
  • EP. 47: Jesus, Justice, and Women (with Tiffany Bluhm)

    Have you ever found yourself in a place where you felt convicted to stand up for someone being oppressed? Or maybe you’ve felt a strong desire to be an advocate for them but you couldn’t seem to find your voice? On this episode of God Hears Her, Tiffany Bluhm joins us to explore the path of finding our voice when we find ourselves in a place of injustice. She’ll also share her own journey of how she found her place in Jesus, justice, and women.

     

    About our guest: 

    Tiffany Bluhm is the author of She Dreams and Never Alone and their companion Bible studies, as well as her latest book, Prey Tell. She is cohost of the Why Tho podcast and leads an engaged audience of followers online. Tiffany is committed to encouraging people of faith to live with conviction, substance, and grace. As a minority, immigrant woman with an interracial family, Bluhm is passionate about inviting all to the table of faith, equality, justice, and dignity.

     

    Notes and Quotes:

    • “I always felt welcome in the kingdom. I always felt like I had found my place.”
    • “As my faith grew and as my grip on justice tightened, there was this intersection and I found my place. It’s Jesus and it’s justice and it’s women.”
    • “In my work I critique how we have messaged Jesus, how we have weaponized Scripture against women. Because the honest truth is the imbalance of power we see in our world is one of the leading factors to derail a woman’s faith, career, financial standing, and her reputation.” 
    • “It came to understanding that loyalty to conviction had to override my loyalty to an institution.”
    • “If you see something that is inherently wrong, and you stay silent, you become complicit in that action.”
    • “Think of the opportunity, especially among women, to lock arms and to serve and listen and to lament with one another. And to bring change.”
    • “Change in gender inequality has only come when women have locked arms together.”
    • “How did we, from the first century to this modern day, twist Jesus’ words and weaponize Scripture to make women feel small? And how can we right that cultural wrong through a biblical lens?”
    • “This idea of ‘don’t touch the Lord’s anointed’ has been taken out of context to mean that ‘those who are anointed or appointed are immune from dissent.’”
    • “If Jesus held up one woman’s testimony, so must we.”
    • “Fear is a flashing red light of a lack of love.”

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Order Tiffany’s book Prey Tell: https://www.amazon.com/Prey-Tell-Silence-Women-Everyone/dp/1587434784/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prey+tell&qid=1620925274&sr=8-1
    • Tiffany’s Instagram: tiffanybluhm
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

     

    41 min
  • EP. 46: Feeling Out of Place (Best of 2020 Amy Boucher Pye)

    Whether it’s a big move, the end of an important relationship, or a child going off to school, we have all experienced transition. On this “best of” episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa share a previous conversation with author Amy Boucher Pye when Amy discusses how God led her through a major life transition of her own.

     

    About our guest: 

    Amy Boucher Pye is a writer and speaker and an American living in London. She writes devotional thoughts for several publications including Our Daily Bread and is the author of the award-winning Finding Myself in Britain and The Living Cross.

     

    Notes and Quotes: 

     

    • “We as Americans are so isolated about the reality of our global church.”
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    • “I knew that my calling was not my work. But, oh boy, when you’re not working you’re like ‘who am I, and where is God?’”
    • “As women . . . we mistake roles for identity, and it gets really confusing. You have to remember who you are, and how God sees you. Realize that my identity is not the role, the role was a place I was invited to serve. ”
    • “During the tender times when stresses and insecurities are high, make sure your relationship with God is very solid.” 
    • “Pray and ask God for friends, but then also do your part in that. Sometimes it’s making a plan or joining a crafting group.”
    • “One of the best pieces of advice I have been given is to ‘invest by owing.’ Instead of being the answer woman, invite somebody else to help you. Then somebody else is going to feel valued and necessary; and you will have a beautiful, mutual exchange. ”
    • “Sometimes we have to relinquish something so God can give it back in another way.”
    • Note: Though I walk through _____, God is with me.
    • “All of us are in transition, where things we depend on are stripped away. So look for the green.”

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • YMI article “What Is God Calling Me to Do?” 
    • God Hears Her website
    • Share the love by giving this episode a 5-star rating on iTunes! 
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women 
    • Amy Boucher Pye’s Book: Finding Myself in Britain
    • Amy Boucher Pye’s Book: The Living Cross
    • Amy's Instagram: amyboucherpye
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    Verses Mentioned in Show: 

    • Psalm 23:4 NIV Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
    • Psalm 23:2 NIV  He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters.
    24 min
  • EP. 45: When We Feel Invisible (Best of 2020 with Robert Gelinas)

    Feeling unseen, unheard, and invisible is something many of us struggle with. In this week’s “best of” episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa revisit their conversation with Robert Gelinas as he describes overcoming feelings of being invisible and introduces us to Hagar and the God who sees and hears her and us.

     

    About our guest: 

    Robert Gelinas deeply desires to see the body of Christ united and empowered to serve the poor and the poor in spirit; the miserable and the marginalized; the disabled and those deemed unimportant. Robert is the pastor of Colorado Community Church and the author of several books including his most recent, Discipled by Jesus. He and his wife, Barbara, live with their six children in the Denver area.

     

    Notes and Quotes: 

    • “I felt loved, but I did not feel seen or heard in my family. I felt invisible.”
    • “The pastor says, ‘I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,’ and when I went under water it was like time stopped because I didn’t know who my dad was, and this man said Father.”
    • Sometimes we don’t realize there is a big gap in our heart that desires to be known or noticed, until we are. 
    • “The people we interact with on this planet can mirror how He views us.”
    • “I don’t think the first woman wondered if she was seen and heard. I don’t think Eve ever woke up before the fall and said, ‘Does God see me, and does my husband see me?’” 
    • “Are you really there if nobody sees you?”
    • “We would rather be invisible than be exposed.”
    • Our fear of being vulnerable, or being exposed, gets in the way of us being seen or being known.
    • “Is it a right? It is more than a right, it’s what you were created for.” –Referring to a woman questioning if it is her right to be seen and heard.
    • When you feel invisible, you think it’s possibly your fault. But when you have that moment where God reveals to you that He sees you, then at least you know: I am not invisible. I am real. I exist.

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • Free e-booklet Real Love by Bill Crowder
    • God Hears Her website
    • Share the love by giving this episode a 5-star rating on iTunes! 
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon
    • Order Robert Gelinas' book: Discipled by Jesus, on Amazon.
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    Verses Mentioned In Show: 

    • Genesis 16:13 NIV “You are the God who sees me.” 
    • John 4:15-18 NIV Jesus with the woman at the well.
    • The Book of Lamentations NIV 

     

    27 min
  • EP. 44: The Comparison Trap (with Bree Rostic)

    You may have heard it said, “You become what you think.” So what happens when all of our thoughts are focused on comparing ourselves with others? Join Eryn and Elisa on this episode of God Hears Her as they talk to Bree Rostic about the dangers of comparison and how God uniquely created each one of us.

     

    About our guest: 

    Breonna Rostic is a writer, speaker, spoken word artist, and communication specialist with Our Daily Bread Ministries. Affectionately known as Bree, she is a ball of joy and love. Her passion is sharing God’s love for women to bring healing and restoration. She gained her admiration for the Word of God through serving as a teacher in her local ministry. Bree is married to Daryle and together they raise their three kids in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

     

    Notes and Quotes:

    • “I wanted to tuck away that part of my life because it wasn’t clean, it wasn’t beautiful. But when you have time to reflect on a part of your life where you are running in an opposite direction, it is a beautiful testimony of His grace.”
    • “You can trace Him [God] when you can’t see Him.”
    • “The more time we spend with our Father and acknowledging Him, the more we can sense His presence.”
    • “Comparison has become so normal in our culture. It is what we do in every aspect of our lives.”
    • “When we think of the root of comparison, it comes down to thinking ‘what God gave me is not enough for me, and I need what He gave them.’”
    • “When comparison is unchecked, it becomes like a cancer to your soul.”
    • “We have to be our own doctors and say ‘how am I right now?’ and then not just pushing that thought off to the side.”
    • “There is this freedom we can feel when we extend compassion to the acknowledgment.”
    • “When we expose our shame, our insecurities, we are glorifying God. Because we know in our weakness, His strength is perfected.”
    • Bree’s advice: 1. Don’t feel guilty. 2. Spend some time with your Father.

     

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Order Bree’s book From a Mile Behind on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wg6y0O
    • Bree Rostic’s Instagram: breerostic
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    35 min
  • EP. 43: Faith and Feelings (Best of 2020)

    Have you ever had one of those days? Or even one of those weeks? We’ve all been there. Join us this week on this “best of” episode of God Hears Her as Eryn and Elisa discuss emotions and a way to process hard feelings with God. 

    Notes and Quotes: 

    • Feelings are neither right or wrong, feelings inform us. —Ann Voskamp
    • “I can come to Him, or I can’t. I get to choose that, right? But grace is always there. It is always present. It is not forced upon us, but it is always there.”
    • “Jesus doesn’t do life alone. He is in relationship with the Father and Spirit.”
    • “Sometimes I struggle with feeling like I have to be put together in order to come to Him.”
    • “Write down those ugly, shameful feelings and look at them. Not as an Instagram caption, but as a sacred moment, alone. Then admit and accept where you are, and surrender that to God. Evaluate your life choices: Are they bringing you closer to or farther away from God? And then set reminders to live in God’s truth.”
    • “I think that’s the biggest thing with feelings and faith: Sometimes we think they can’t be in tandem. They can’t live together.”
    • “Breathe Prayer: Lord, guide me to the wise path that protects my heart for the purposes you have for me. Use me to honor what you want me to know: that I am loved, that I need work, that I am called to a greater purpose you have for me, and that I don’t need to be scared of my ‘messy.’ But help me to recognize the messy and give it over to you. I love you, Jesus. Amen.”
    • When our feelings are messy, it’s so important to tell someone, because we can lean in on their faith when our faith isn’t there.

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned In Show: 

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
    • Subscribe on iTunes!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.  https://amzn.to/32lYSgh
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

    Verses Mentioned In Show: 

    • Matthew 11:28–29 NIV Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
    • Psalm 116:6 NIV The LORD protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me.

     

    25 min
  • EP. 42: True Beauty (Best of 2020 with Philip Yancey)

    Do you sometimes find yourself overlooked or on the outside of society? Do you have a hard time believing that God sees you, He hears you, and He loves you? In this “best of” episode of God Hears Her, Philip Yancey takes us on a journey across the globe to show how God can use some of the most unlikely women to reflect His image.

    About our guest: 

    Philip Yancey grew up in a strict, fundamentalist church that radically shaped his view of God. Later in life, Philip began asking really difficult questions about God, Christianity, and the role of the church—questions that many people are scared to ask, but he did it out loud. Many of his bestselling books explore these deep questions of our faith. One of his most recent books, titled Fearfully and Wonderfully, explores the work Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey did together in regard to people affected by leprosy. His memoir, Where the Light Fell: A Memoir, comes out in the Fall of 2021.

    Notes and Quotes:

    • “While I gave words to his faith, the transfer was he was giving faith to my words.”
    • If there is supposed to be a good, loving God, why do all these bad things happen?
    • “Dr. Brand’s perspective is: ‘Thank God for pain. If I had one gift I could give my leprosy patients, it would be the gift of pain.’”
    • We live in a very achievement-oriented culture, and we rank people. What counts is how beautiful you are or how much money you make. None of that is what matters to God.
    • “I went away first convicted about my snap judgment of [a woman I thought was a beggar], and also so impressed with the Lord of the universe, who looked on [this woman] and said, ‘Here is a woman who by the standards of the world is a real loser . . . I can make a comfortable home in [her], and the Holy Spirit lives in her.’”
    • A lot of people struggle with self-image and wonder, Am I worth it? Yet God is able to reflect His image in someone like that.
    • Sometimes we may look healthy and happy on the outside, but inside it can feel like we are deteriorating. So many women just need someone to just put their arm around them and tell them “I hear you, and I see so much beauty inside of you.”
    • Serving God while not growing envious of someone else receiving recognition exemplifies that you are serving humbly. 
    • Women particularly are very sensitive to how people are perceiving them. Understand that you are not going to get rid of all those voices, but make the primary voice say, “What does God think?”
    • “My audience is not, “How do I please those around me?” My primary audience is, “How am I bringing pleasure to God?”

    Links:

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website
    • Share the love by giving this episode a 5-star rating on iTunes! 
    • Support the Podcast!  
    • Order your copy of Fearfully and Wonderfully by Philip Yancey on Amazon 
    • Pre-Order your copy of Where the Light Fell: A Memoir
    • Listen to Philip Yancey on Discover the Word in the series, “Fearfully and Wonderfully”  
    • Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
    • Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

     

    26 min
  • EP. 41: Beauty in the Midst of Despair (with Ruth Naomi Floyd)

    It’s probably safe to say that we’ve all experienced “the blues” at different times in our lives. But as Christians, how are we supposed to walk through those seasons of sadness, discouragement, or worse? Our guest for this episode, jazz singer Ruth Naomi Floyd, shares both the practical and the artistic ways we can find beauty in the midst of despair.

    About our guest: 

    As a vocalist and composer, Ruth Naomi Floyd has been at the forefront of creating vocal jazz settings that express theology and justice for over 25 years. Also a committed music educator, Ms. Floyd is Director of Jazz Studies at Cairn University in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct and Artist in Residence at Temple University. Before that, Ms. Floyd taught music for 20 years at The City School.

    In addition to her musical talent, Ruth Naomi is also an award-winning fine art photographer specializing in black and white portrait images. She continues to make the city of Philadelphia her home, where for over 25 years she has been devoted and active in providing compassionate care and spiritual support  to people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

    Notes and Quotes:

    • “We don’t get where we are without those before us and surrounding us pushing us onward.”
    • “There is beauty in the midst of darkness. There is light.”
    • “In the beginning of Genesis 1:1, God presents Himself as an artist: ‘God created.’”
    • “Jesus is the greatest blues singer.”
    • “What kind of God can I not believe in? For me, I cannot believe in a God that hasn’t suffered.”
    • “Sometimes continually showing up is activism.”
    • “Each generation has a responsibility to take what’s best from the generations that preceded them and to build on it.”
    • “On her way back to her cabin [after being dehumanized], she would search for beauty.”
    • “Lean on our biblical sisters, and in each example we can find a way to reflect light.”
    • “Sometimes, really, a radical act is committing to pray, committing to lament . . . remembering your sisters.”
    • “It starts inward. So if we as sisters would value each other, if we would see beauty, if we would empower the kind words, if the world could see Christian women come together and be united and speaking over them with truth and love, they [the world] would be knocking our church doors down.”

    Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

    • Show Notes on godhearsher.org
    • God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
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    • Ruth’s website: https://ruthnaomifloyd.com
    • Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
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God Hears Her explores the stunning truth that God sees you, He hears you, and He loves you because you are His. It's for women who are in the trenches of the beautiful and messy moments of…

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