She Shifted Podcast

Today we’re talking about getting out of your own way. Truth is it’s not always easy to do. We take in so much from ourselves, our families, our friends, television; every news outlet has an opinion, the joys of tiny living, what about those kids that cook gourmet meals in 30 minutes; and then there are the covers of these magazines in the grocery stores; polished look on a shoestring budget. Define polished, I’m just saying .HAHA! Your idea and mine might be totally different. The dangers of boiled eggs..so now boiled eggs are dangerous? One minute coffee is good for you.. other minutes it is not. It can be too much.  So much information, so much to process and I don’t know about you but there comes a time when I just want to press the pause button of life; if there were such a thing.

Speaking of the pause button of life. The other day I was thinking about my grandmother. An amazing woman, who didn’t have much but loved others hard with all she had. My grandmother and I had a very close relationship. I lived with her until I was 11 and I felt like I was her favorite until I realized she made every one of her grands and great grands feel like they were her favorites. She was amazing like that. She had some of the softest cheeks. Oh my goodness. Her cheeks were crazy soft. If you can imagine what a cloud could feel like. I mean one of those velveted, full, fluffy, clouds..that’s what my grandmother's cheeks felt like.  As I was reflecting on my Grandmother and her cheeks, I thought about her pause button moments.

If you ask any member of my members when did our grandmother stop everything? When did she push pause? We’d all say around 5:00 pm after the evening news when she would tune into Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.

In most cases, she didn’t take phone calls during that time and if she did, she was very brief. She loved her games shows. She was actively engaged in her games shows. She would tell the contestants when they were right or wrong.

She would talk to Pat, Vania, and Alex like she was right there with them. We all understood. Don’t call her, conversations and bathroom breaks were reserved for commercials. She was serious about her games shows. I realize I am very much her.  I don’t think, I on the same level as my granny but let just say I’m thankful for the pause button and the ability to DVR Family Feud.  I love family feud.

Shout out to Steve Harvey. Steve has done a great job reinventing the show. I truly enjoy watching the show.  It going to be a good one today folks, I love it! Family Feud is on my bucket list. I am going on the show and I have been secretly interviewing family members for the last 8 years.

411 on Negative Faith Today we’re talking about Negative faith…what is it? Negative faith..it just doesn’t sound right to me. Does it sound right to you? To use Negative with word faith. To me, the two aren’t meant to go together. Think about it. Negative connected to faith? Um .so I google the synonym for negative. Five columns of words. On the list were words like weak, unfavorable, anti, disallowing, opposing, rejecting and again I’m thinking this just doesn’t make sense to use negative with faith. 

Faith is the opposite right. There were five columns of words for faith. Faith is trust complete trust. Belief, confidence, conviction, credence, certainty, reliance, dependence, truth..um um My husband and I have been married for 20 years now. When I look back, we had a lot of learning to do over the course of our marriage. We married in our late twenties but as soldiers we were also married to the military. This meant we faced very different challenges them most newlyweds. In learning each other, I realized that we had very different ideas about a lot of things. Like, I didn’t realize how my hubby and I had different ideas on what Saturday morning clean up looked like until I pulled out the vacuum at 9 am on our first Saturday morning together and he came out..with that what in the world is going on look on his face. HA! HA!. These small differences became the topic of many of our discussions and disagreements as well. It was the small things. 

We’re still talking about negative faith. Some of our interesting moments was his time in the kitchen. Kudos to the husbands who cook! Well when he started out cooking, I could expect something interestingly delicious. LOL!! His way of doing things meant every cabinet open with most of the herbs and spices on the counter top readily available. Didn’t mean that he was planning to use them all but just in case. One day, he’s preparing a meal. We had a chicken, veggies, and a side dish. I walked in the kitchen and saw an opened can of fruit cocktail but the contents were nowhere to be found initially. To my surprise, the fruit cocktail had made its’ way into a pot on the stove in with candied yams.. I said to my husband, these two do not go with one another. To me, together they just don’t go well together. Where did you come up with this..He response was just trying somethings new out. Betty Crocker had to start somewhere!! Really, okay I’ll give you that one.. SO when I think about Negative. Faith. I think about that candied yams and fruit cocktail dish. It really seems like an oxymoron to me. Funny enough, my hubby’s candied sweet potatoes dish is actually a thing and so is negative faith. We do it all the time. Speaking and thinking things that align with negative faith without a second thought can become common place if we’re not careful. Have you ever said in one breathe, God said…, I trust God, I believe God, and in the another breathe, I can’t do this, I don’t know about this, this is not going to work, what was I thinking. I have. Until one day the Holy Spirit said..Stop it! You can’t have it both ways. As I continued through the synonyms for negative, one stopped me in my tracks.. counteractive, WOW! Counteractive which means to act in opposition of which is exactly what we do. Negative faith is in opposition to faith; our thought patterns, belief, trust, confidence and even our speech. So me saying, I can’t do it, it will never happen, I will never be happy is speaking or responding in opposition to faith. Yes ma’am. We think in opposition of faith; we worry, doubt, allow unbelief and fears to direct our thoughts, speech and in some cases our paths. Worry is faith in the negative.. ouch. Trust in the unpleasant, confidence in disaster and belief in defeat...and that’s all taking place internally. WOW. Sometimes you have to say it out loud to really grab a hold of it. Have you ever tried to inventory some of your thought? Ser

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