You probably know the Robertson family from A&E’s hit reality show, Duck Dynasty. From crazy long beards to crazy Uncle Si moments, America fell in love with the family from West Monroe, LA. For 11 seasons, America watched the Robertson family have a lot of fun while running their duck hunting business, Duck Commander, as well as live out their faith. They even closed each episode with a family prayer around the dinner table. Now that the show is off the air, the Robertsons continue to live their lives for the glory of the Lord.
family family is everything making sure
that you’re connected to the people that
really God gave you you know you didn’t
choose your family members this for the
most part there you are just plopped in
this group of people who are your family
and every time I see a family that loves
each other they are encouraging of each
other they’re lifting each other up
there’s a healthy dynamic there I just
want to get to know them better I want
to know what makes them so connected and
how God is working in their lives and
and learn what I can learn from families
with you know one generation leads to
the next generation that leads to the
next generation and there’s no more
beautiful picture and our day and age
than the family that I’m gonna be
talking to you today so stay tuned
you’re not gonna want to miss this
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hey there I’m so glad that you’re
joining me today on I’m actually gonna
say welcome back and the reason I’m
saying welcome back is because this is
part two of a conversation we’ve already
been having so tinker around there on
YouTube the little pictures you’ve got
there on the side and fine part 1 of
this conversation it has been so
fantastic we’ve been talking to a family
of women one generation pouring into the
next generation pouring into the next
generation and the fruit of that type of
investment in the people that you love
the most we’re talking about family and
what better family talked to us about
that then these incredible people that
the Lord has given a little bit of a
unique platform and they’ve used it for
his glory would you all please help me
to welcome back the women of duck
dynasty you are here again joining me
just to go ahead and introduce yourself
you are I’m Sadie you are Sadie you are
how old now 20 cuz see folks watched you
grow up they sure did so we can’t
believe you’re 20 years old I mean you
can’t believe she’s 20 years old either
that’s crazy I’m Corey Corey and you’re
the mom of how many six now was this
planned was it was it was it any of the
six kind of like oh oops I’m very I mean
by God by us yeah we so we have three
biological and three that are adopted
and so God has blessed us MLE more than
we asked or imagined for sure absolutely
and then who’s this lovely lady I’m
Chris I’m Cory’s mom and I can’t believe
she’s her age Sadie’s 20 and I have
three children and 14 grandchildren oh
my goodness what a beautiful legacy that
you have we talk so much about you know
your show and the things that people
most know you for but I really want to
talk about this legacy that’s sitting
right here and what it means to be a
woman that’s pouring into another woman
that’s intentional about pouring into
her and being a model for her and we
talked a lot about spiritual things
we’re gonna get into that too I’m sure
the conversation always is gonna steer
back toward that but I mentioned in the
last episode just the genes the DNA
that’s happened enough the beauty that’s
in front of us and miss Chris I’m just
looking over at you do you tell people
your age I do tell people my older I’m
64
you are 64 years old and you were all
sorts of lovely I met kind of hard to
hide the age when you have grandchildren
who are 22 yeah so you know people will
start adding it up and then you’re just
like yeah I’m just old I’m we did start
young though she got married at 18 and I
got married at 18 as well so we did
start young ahead John Luke when I was
almost 20 – and you were 20 when you had
me so yeah cuz you’re still single
all right enjoy that okay
here’s what I want to ask you it if you
could look back and tell yourself
something at this age to do differently
or to navigate a little bit differently
from your vantage point now what would
you tell yourself at this age at Cory’s
at Cory’s age Cory’s age that would be a
tough one because I already had John
Luke I was already a grandmother at
Cory’s a and that was just amazing just
you know the love of the you know
there’s another no red carpet event that
will match having that first grandbaby
oh so that was just awesome but I think
I would just tell myself at that age
that it is time to relax and enjoy a
little bit because you do go through
those years of raising your children
where and I I’m more like Sadie Sadie
and I have more of the the fear gene a
little bit more and I learned that in my
young 20s that to not be afraid and as
Corey said my mother-in-law was her
other grandmother that quoted scripture
all the time and weak and she’s not
going to see more but we can hear in our
heads her emphasizing that do not fear
you know she just had such an emphasis
and so I did come to that point in my
20s to not be afraid but I still had
that natural inclination of like Corey
said of fearing am I saying the right
things to the kids are they gonna be
okay I might you know and so then when
get to be well because my kids were out
of high school then and I had a new
grandbaby that was such a great time to
just rest in that for a little bit and
enjoy what you’ve done and be proud that
your children are in college or get out
on their own and the grandbabies
generation is starting and and but at
the time there’s a little bit of weight
I’m not old enough to be a grandmother
don’t say that word you know but then
just relax in it and just love every
minute of it yeah so try to enjoy some
of the way of what you’ve done and so
now what about you miss Cory what would
you look back and tell yourself at 20
years old what would you what would you
think that Cory should have known or you
wish she would have done a little bit
differently maybe in those early 20s you
were already married so as a newly early
married young lady what would you tell
your so goodness so and there’s a I’ve
been asked this question before and one
of the things that I I always say is I
would give up the shoulds because I
think we put as women we put so many
like I should be here or I should I
should be married by the time or I
should do this or my husband should be
doing this for me all right yeah
all of these shoulds that we have it’s
it’s really expectations that we put on
ourselves and if we just could kind of
lay those down and say like okay this is
really what I should do let God and love
my neighbor hurt you know and everything
else is gonna work out and there’s a
mother Teresa quote that I love and it
says God hasn’t called me to be
successful he’s called me to be faithful
and I just love that because it just it
just takes that burden off of you to be
like okay I don’t have to be successful
I just have to be faithful I have to
wake up and just do it again and just
like walk in walk in his path and then
he can worry about all the rest of that
yeah so I think you know just kind of
let lay in that day
laying that show laying that like burden
of expectations down and just being
faithful yeah what would you say to moms
who are in the throes of raising young
adult kids because I find I find that
there’s a lot of books a lot of
resources a lot of advice when you’ve
got toddlers yeah and then there’s a lot
of advice when you’ve got you know some
preteens and some teenagers but then all
of a sudden when you get a 20 year old
the advice sorts of falls sort of falls
away and you can’t really navigate this
child / adult but I’m trying to still
mother you got to still mother her but
in a way you know she’s just moved away
from home she only place and it’s kind
of like how do I still mother her but at
the same time
let her be an adult yeah I think it is
about really about that it’s just kind
of like being there and just being
available for the phone call and being
real you know telling your your mistakes
and your problems and the things that
you went through and identifying with
that rather than being like oh like this
this was all perfect for me you know but
actually telling the hard stuff and
talking about the hard stuff one thing
that that I just feel really fortunate
that we do have with our children is we
just talked a lot to our kids and so
they talk back you know but it takes
that like you have to work at it some of
our kids are better at it Sadie’s talker
like she’ll tell you everything I mean
like she’ll talker and text sometimes
she’ll send me a text and I’ll tell you
and she’ll tell you the hard things that
she’s going through and it’s good
because it’s you’re able to speak into
it but some of our the kids aren’t like
that like they’re did you find it
different having your boys and your
girls did your guys my boys kind of
didn’t yes how did you what are you
gonna do with your boys to kind of get
them I’m asking cuz you know I got yeah
yeah and they just sort of look at me I
say how was your day and they go great
yeah uh-huh
yeah clean well grunts and yeah good
morning and they go buddy good morning
right yeah how’d your gonna cook how did
you get your boys to sort of open up I
think part of that for me I noticed it’s
like timing it’s like whenever if
they’re there then you got to be there
and sometimes for especially John Luke
here’s the one heals like comes into the
room at like 11:00 at night and you’re
like
now it’s about us tonight but now yes
and sits on the bed and then you’re like
okay this is the moment so I gotta take
it when it’s there you know and and I
see that with our other boys – it’s like
it might not be you might have some time
where it’s a lot of grunts and a lot of
this and then all of a sudden if you
just stay there you stay there and
available yeah they’ll come around and
whenever the time comes though you know
a little habit that I’ve had since the
boys were little and I learned this from
Lisa Whelchel Joe or umrah Lisa Whelchel
she played Blair on the facts of life
and she’s a wonderful wonderful lady and
we were talking one time about raising
kids and she said that she made it a
habit to go and sit on the end of her
kid’s bed every night she would just go
sit there and she said a lot of times
she would just sit there in silence
until she would say good night but every
now and then if you just would sit there
for 10 or 15 minutes that they would ask
a question and that question would lead
to a conversation but you had to have
enough patience yeah and diligence to
just show up and sit there so I’ve been
trying to do that it was easier when
they all three shared a room yeah okay I
gotta ask you Sadie
yeah you had a beautiful mother a
beautiful grandmother that both were
married young okay I want to know how
you have seemingly escaped the pressure
that a lot of single women feel to have
to do this thing to have to go ahead and
leave that guy and go ahead and get that
ring and and move on with the next
season of life I I’m going to assume you
can correct me if I’m wrong that that
wasn’t just something you arrived at
that maybe you’ve kind of had to kind of
work through that and realize this is
gonna be my own journey and it might not
look the same as mom and dad how are you
doing that because single women are
struggling with that today yeah yeah for
sure that honestly was really hard for
me Ida
actually because they both got married
at 18
John Luke got engaged at 18 my best
friend got married at 18 everybody’s
getting rid of 18 and here comes 18 and
I’m not even dating anybody so this is
not gonna happen for me obviously so I
was like and I know it to most people
that’s like sounds crazy you’re 18
you’re so young you know but in the fan
was raised in that seemed to be the
normal or what was supposed to happen
and I had dated people but it just and I
think I put that pressure like I have to
marry them because I want to get married
young and I want this life but if I
would have done that where I am now
would have never happened but what
really convicted me actually when I was
18 to just be still and know that He is
God is actually whenever I read I’ve
reread the story of Jacob and Rachel is
that yes and I remember this particular
day because I was really stressed out
about and I was really sad about it and
I just realized the timing of God and
when that happens you know everybody in
out sucks it’s like whenever you lock
eyes and you know that you know that you
know this moment’s the person and to me
I realized that it’s gonna be the timing
of God and I’m gonna have to be still
then I’m gonna know that it’s God that
brought this person and it’s gonna come
whenever I’m doing the work of him on my
path that he has for me and then that
person’s gonna come alongside of me and
reading that in the Bible and
recognizing that story is not just a
story for show and that’s like oh that’s
a great story but that’s a story for me
to walk out and wait and understand that
the same God that set up that divine
relationship is the same guy that’s
gonna preach
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it really did and because I was really
stressed out and I was really sad about
it because I really was like I wanted to
do that to you but I was like that’s
just not gonna happen but God your ways
are higher than my own and I remember
reading that out loud to myself
preaching what I just said to myself I
think that’s what comes from a real
place because I really had to say it
with that much authority to me to
believe it and now me and my best friend
both my best friends we both live in a
house together and it’s so fun we just
talk about you know that we all felt
that pressure but thank God we’re here
because this is such a fun season of
life and like gosh we just get to enjoy
each other’s friendship and living
together as roommates and and it’s just
fun and so I don’t we don’t we’re glad
we’re not missing that being sad about
not having that you know it’s so good
that’s that that right there is the
definition of contentment yeah it is
just being okay with where I am now it
doesn’t mean you don’t have hopes for
the future yeah it means there’s an
equilibrium there’s a balance between
what you have now and enjoying that
while still looking forward and towards
what you have in the future and the hard
thing for us as women I think because
this is something I’ve had to really
work through in my own life is that
we’re so busy looking toward the next
thing yeah when the when the winds blow
and the seasons change which they always
do
then you’re in another season and you
may never return to the one you left
yeah and that’s when we look back and go
oh my goodness there were a whole lot of
blessings there that I never even
recognized what took advantage of yeah
and a lot of what we needed to sustain
us in the next season
we never received because we weren’t
fully present whenever they’re fully
present in our singleness fully present
with a young adult kids fully present as
a grandmother like you said there are a
lot of grandmothers who are struggling
just to be called grandma they don’t
want to be called grandma they want just
something else that doesn’t quite sound
like their grandmother because they’re
not ready for that yeah but just
settling into that season of why so I
want to ask you about health and
wellness because you are very you’re
three very lovely ladies and you know I
think a lot of times we see women who
really look good you know in different
stages of their life they really look
good and we think it’s just you know
they just arrive like that like there’s
no struggle in that they didn’t
to be intentional with that and of
course genes and genetic has a lot to do
with it but you know when you’re when
you’re 20 health and wellness looks
different than when you’re in your 40s
or 50s and when you’re in your 60s it
looks completely different and so I’m
just kind of curious about each of you
and how you’ve had to take care of
yourself differently at this age than
you did maybe a decade a decade earlier
and what that’s look like for you just
navigating being a woman at the stage of
life that you’re in you want to start
because I’m most running really well I
have always I’ve loved athletics and
I’ve always done some sport I’ve moved
to tennis I started playing tennis when
I was in my early 40s and so that is the
thing that I love to do now because of
duck dynasty that season of our time it
was kind of put on the back burner Corey
and I were partners and had so much fun
playing together and we haven’t been
able to do that but I still continue to
play but I do remember when I was
younger and I would go to the gym and
work out or go to exercise class it was
I always felt like it was a special
thing that I got to do if I got to do
that you know that was just like a
little extra in my day but now in my 60s
I make sure I exercise it’s not extra is
a requirement for me because I want to
stay young and be able to come up here
and see Sadie or fly with her to
California if she’s on Dancing with the
Stars or go to see John Luke or my other
12 grandchildren who are all involved in
sports and different things I want to
stay healthy for that so I do I do
exercise almost every day now on some
level I don’t go to the gym I just do
things at the house and I’m loving time
I tell you what she does she’s not fancy
about it she’s on her pajamas in her
bedroom on her rug doing like leg lifts
push-ups that she gets the cans in the
kitchen she’s that kind of exercise and
go and like you know spend an hour at
the gym she literally is in her pajamas
you walk in you come over to her house
at night and you’re like – mom where are
you mom and she’s back there on her
paintin e-even leg lifts yeah
Kameron fifty push-ups a day yeah doing
that I’m doing the 50 push-ups a day now
mine don’t look like Candace’s they’re
going up and down and then the last
they’re like a little fast they aren’t
going on the down so I am all about just
making available to what you have
available and the time that you have to
put into it whether you get yoga on your
phone there’s so many resources now that
you don’t have to go to a gym you can do
it around the house and like I said we
we live next door but it’s a pretty good
hike over there
and so walking and saying just trying to
stay active and playing tennis when baby
comes playing tennis what are you eating
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that is just not a real good question
for me it’s not I’m not a big eater
anyway and it’s like you know okay you
know those little Andes mints you know
like that’s a candy bar for her she’s
like be like it takes her like five
bites to eat that yeah I mean like a
snicker time like the movie saw Snickers
and she’s like the Andes net I really
always not been much of an eater all my
growing up years my dad was very thin I
take just after my daddy was tall and
thin and that’s just how I have always
been but being tall and thin does not
mean you’re healthy right so and it
doesn’t mean you’re in good shape it
doesn’t mean you can stand up to a
three-hour tennis match when your
granddaughter comes so you still have to
eat bright wheat my husband had colon
cancer 20 years ago and we stopped
eating meat on the spot and so we don’t
eat meat and we vegetables and fish and
since we’re Louisiana there’s plenty of
fish so our diet is is fish and
vegetables and things like that and a
little Andes and then I didn’t ask you
your age earlier miss Cordy
I’ll tell it of course I’m 44 okay yes
and I actually signed up for a half
marathon this year yes so I am not like
mom I’m not consistent I’ve never been
consistent exerciser I’m kind of like
one of those I’m like oh I’m gonna sign
up for this the story can I do it what
this is funny so my mom we call her the
eighth wonder of the world cuz it’s
really just a wonder how she is ever
really like worked out but she would
always get she would say one of these
days I’m gonna be a runner and we would
laugh cuz really they just like all of a
sudden wake up and light I’m gonna be
running yeah it’s like nope I’m telling
you it’s gonna happen I’ve read stories
I’ve seen babies she’s like all these
people they just wake up and they’re
just like I’m gonna run and then they
love it and my dad’s always made fun of
her come her birthday this year she
wakes up she’s like my time is now she
signs I ran four miles for the first
time and I was like so proud of it about
the first time you went out to run you
may know the first time like the other
day like I’m building now I’m building
up right listen in a process about a
couple of months process and your whole
family I know it’s the first time I ran
for two minutes and I was like I’m kind
of good kind that that like I have to
have something hard like I need to plan
the party to like clean the house so
like I’m like I have to like plan the
party and it makes me do it yeah so
actually I was we we went to Peru this
summer we do a lot of work with an
organization called help 1 now that I’m
on the board with and we we travel with
them and do do work around the world if
we would improve and we climb Machu
Picchu and I was like dying but the end
there’s a picture at the end of our
whole group and we’re saying at the
bottom and I am like standing like so
proud I like myself because I was
standing so proud I was like look like
I’m so proud of myself and I did that so
like I just kind of like hit me like I
need to do something hard I need to do
something that’s hard for me and like
sometimes we can get in that moment of
just were comfortable and we don’t do
anything that’s hard for us and we don’t
do anything that we don’t think we can
do and a half marathon
really I don’t I did not feel like I
could do it whenever I said I’m gonna do
this but sometimes we have to just kind
of push ourselves out there and so like
do something that’s hard that makes me
uncomfortable that scares us a little
bit and get out of our comfort zone and
see what you know what guy can do with
it have you found that your body has
changed from 30s into 40s oh good night
yes yes and Willie is really is you know
he’s hilarious
and he a dude laugh at myself so he
comes up and does this little thing
where he like shakes the bottom back of
my arm he’s like on that maybe since
that was because he grew up in our youth
group and yeah they don’t they gave it
to me when I was like 28 my cup 28
shakes on the back of your arm and
you’re like thank you for that reminder
but what you’re doing that to me it’s
not great
yeah exactly so but yes it has
definitely changed and that in the
things that where I have never been a
really consistent like I played tennis I
like it or I might you know do yoga for
three months and then I’m off it or I’ll
do you know I just have never been I can
have anything that I’m real consistent
with and so I decided it was gonna be
running and this is my year so doing it
I’m doing it for miles and yeah in a few
more months do you have to watch her
eating or you kind of like your mom no
you already said you want the whole
Snickers yeah yeah no willies
Willie’s a really good cook really it’s
a really good cook and so the back Corey
though like she is my reader and I am
Sadie you know so growing up I was Corey
let’s go outside and play jump on the
tram I never bore them she did really
good she’s my reader and so she did play
softball and she did learn how to play
tennis but she claims it’s only because
I was her master driven to kid yeah to
get her out there because you know
wanted her to play with me you know to
come outside and play with me but she is
so she is the reader but she’s also
salutatorian her class I have to do some
prank so when she says she’s gonna stick
to something she do all stick to him
zone I fully expect a passing water out
to her in her mirror
in a few months are you all enjoying the
aging process so many people fight it
particularly in this western part of the
world where we’re just supposed to look
a certain way for as long as we possibly
can you know it’s hard to be in this
culture and just go ahead and relax into
the changes in a woman’s body and her
health and hormones you know all the
stuff that happens with women in our
bodies are you guys relaxing into that
or are you finding yourself a little bit
with a little anxiety over the changes
as you as you age I think that you don’t
relax into the health parts of it I mean
you don’t want you you know anytime that
there’s something health-related and the
doctor says well I think it’s age or
late oh my god don’t say that surely
somebody young has this problem you know
but so you you you kind of fight I fight
that a little bit but again I will go to
my mother we have such my mother is such
a amazing woman ultra mom she’ll be 87
next month and she you would not even
know it at all and she has modeled for
us how to age gracefully and I had on a
cape yesterday and said he said wow you
look like my mojo today because my mom I
mean she looks like a movie star if
she’s going to the grocery store you
know my brother who lives next door to
her went over the other day and she
hadn’t put on her makeup and she was
like honey I can’t believe I don’t have
my makeup from that day this is like a
few weeks ago from that I went over at
the later after that she had her makeup
on I said mom you’re already all dressed
and she said honey I made a deal with
myself I’m never going past 8 o’clock
without my she’s at all of our kids
basketball games climbing the bleachers
just like you know all of us and if you
try to help her up those bleachers you
will know honey it’s gonna and part of
that is it has serves her well because
that stubbornness is like nope I’m gonna
do this I can do this and I think that’s
where I am as far as aging now don’t get
me wrong I’m gonna cover the gray you
know I’ve got a little bit showing right
now that I’m gonna be covering next week
but
so so that’s concerned you know I’m not
gonna age that grace but as far as the
thing that gets me is like I want to be
that grandmother that can walk up the
bleachers to see my kids I want to be
the grandmother that is out there you
know playing with the kids in the yard
and so our great-grandmother actually so
that’s the thing that I always think
about is like just in your goals change
and this is a lot like in your 20s I
might be working out because you want to
fit certain times you want and your 30s
it’s another part and then your 40s you
start thinking actually I want to make
sure my knees still work that’s right I
want to make sure that I can add up
straight it yeah you just start having a
different base which means the way you
work out probably gonna change what you
eat is gonna change because you know
running might affect your joints
differently in your 50s and 60s and
being willing to say maybe I don’t need
to pound the pavement at a different
decade of life can be hard for somebody
that’s been a runner their whole life to
decide I’ve got to do the bike now so my
knees work what I’m saying
so just making those modifications okay
so where are you in this culture that
says you have to look a certain way you
have to be a certain way you’ve got to
you know make sure that you fit into
this tiny little profile of what beauty
is how do you navigate that again
because just in case y’all didn’t know
miss Sadie here is quite a voice to the
younger generation there are a lot of
people that are listening to you I don’t
even know sometimes I look at your
Twitter account and I’m like does this
girl really have I don’t know how many
million what do you have going on on
your Twitter account how many followers
are in your Twitter account Twitter two
million yeah cuz there are two million
people a lot of them I would say would
be young ladies that are just listening
in and they’re watching to see what your
clothing line is gonna be like I mean
I’m thinking of the message of modesty
you send every time you create a new
garment that you that people are gonna
be buying that’s a message of modesty
you’re sending they’re watching your
images that you put out of yourself
they’re they’re looking at you and and
whether you like it or not girl you are
guiding a lot of young ladies so how are
you navigating the pressure of this
culture that says you’ve got to kind of
look a certain way to be beautiful
yeah I’ve been very
listen vocal and open about my struggle
with that and I think to just to say
what they’ve been and something that
I’ve been keeping into perspective
lately and mom said it the other day I
said something about something about
moms like mom you just look great you
know cuz she was talking about working
out and all this stuff and she I said I
mean compared I think I said compared to
everybody else your age something like
that and she said well I’m not comparing
myself actually I just want to be good
for me and healthy for me and I thought
that was really cool and even how they
talked about mom on Joe I think when you
think about just yourself and you think
about like the health aspect of yourself
and then I look at them and I think oh
my gosh I love the way they’re aging
like I think that they’re beautiful and
even men want Joe like I like we all
love Memo Joe’s like arms we love how
she ages we love her wrinkles that with
everything about her we love and so you
think about other people’s perspective
nobody’s thinking oh man you know you
got a few more wrinkles that’s I’m like
I love your hey cuz you’re my grandma
you know so keeping that into
perspective I think that helps them age
seeing her like that and even see me
where they are that they just want to be
healthy and they have this perspective
that it’s not about the way you look
it’s about the way you feel and what you
give to the world but that’s not easy
that’s a lot easier said than done
and for me I’ve talked a lot about it
because when I was out in the modeling
world for a minute and doing Dancing
with the Stars and stuff like that I
totally fell under that pressure of do
you have to fit a certain size and look
a certain way and that size is
impossible to reach unless you’re on
days and stars and dancing 10 hours a
the minute you’re done with that well
you’re not gonna look like that anymore
and I like nachos too much yeah okay so
you’re gonna choose cases yeah so for me
yeah that was hard but I feel like a lot
of people the reason why they just like
it they stress out so much is because we
feel like less than the standard that
the world set because you can never you
actually can never be that because it’s
not even real not real yeah normally
filtered and it’s normally cropped or it
comes with honestly some kind of
unhealthy eating habit
and for me that’s what it fell under and
I realized something so important that
really brought my world is that I am
never going to measure up to the
standard that the world set I will
always end up bless them but when I
understand
I was actually never called to belong to
the world I’m called to belong to a
kingdom my father made for me to enter
that he invited me into for me it’s like
you will never end up less than you will
always end up to be exactly how he
handcrafted you to be and the more I
dwell on being less then the less voice
I have the more impact to have you hide
under shame you hide under fear and
security doubt but the minute you step
into belonging to the kingdom of God
oh goodness it’s a going girl like
confident not because of what she look
like or who you are but because who he
is in the radiates off of you and I was
so I hate this about that season of my
life whenever I was hiding under that
insecurity in that body shame and all
that stuff because I’ll tell them I
don’t remember so many things that
happen and I don’t remember it because I
was so focused on myself and thinking
about my own problems that I missed
everything around me and praise God I’m
out of that mind game now that I can see
the world around me the less impact you
have when you’re thinking about yourself
you know and mom told me she was like
hey you’re if you think everybody’s
looking at you you’re thinking about
yourself way too much and I heard she
said that back then I was like you’re so
right my mom said that to me when I was
about 13 years old I remember I’ll never
forget this we were on a road trip and
I’d like not you know brushed my hair
done anything we’d gotten up early and
and we stopped at a gas station I didn’t
want to go in cuz I was like oh I look
bad and she was like if you think people
are looking at you you’re thinking way
too much about yourself and I was like
woah thank you and it hit me and it’s
change for me I was like you know what I
am thinking too much about myself like
everybody else is not thinking they’re
not looking at me yeah they got their
own problems to worry about
and so you know I just had to try to
instill that in our kids you listen to
her and just go oh yes yes I was
thinking about when she was telling this
as yeah I’ll watch our YouTube videos
like oh my goodness we’re just coming
from yes but the other day she said
something you you were talking about
being feeling worthless and she’s she
said and you said we’re not worthless
but the way we were living is worth
less than the calling that God has for
us the things that we’re doing is worth
less than who we were meant to be and
what we were called the day and I was
like whoa girl
I don’t know where that came from so
good that was so you were talking about
the other day at Passion you said go
reread Ephesians so I went and reread
Ephesians and there’s this part I was
reading the amplified version and
chapter 4 I believe maybe it was right
after Noah I think it’s chapter 5 and it
talks about how we’re not to be involved
with anything of the dark world anything
that is sin like that but it then it
goes anything that is worthless to the
calling that he has on the amplified
version
I said yeah so many of us we take on the
word worthless and we think we are
worthless because we’re living in this
insecurity to sin whatever it is but
it’s never that you were worthless it’s
that what you are participating in in
the sin in this dark realm is worth less
than what God has for you and when we
fall under it and when we take on that
word you take on that shame but when you
say no no this this this send this doubt
this up and then and that’s got to go
because that’s worthless and that’s
whenever you fall under that thing that
you’re talking about of that pressure to
fit the certain size like it’s just you
guys have been such a blessing to us the
very first time that I met Corey was was
actually fairly recently it was just a
couple of months ago or not even it
maybe two months ago or so and we met
each other and I and we just kind of
walked up to each other and how did you
do there like we’d known each other for
a very long time
I think our pads it sort of almost
crossed 15 times and it may be on
Twitter or something we’d talk to each
other a little bit but um I hugged you
and I don’t remember exactly what I said
to you before you know our short time
together was over but it was something
something in and around what I want to
say to you now and what I want to also
say to you I feel like I’m about to cry
that’s perimenopause one thank you thank
you because I I listen to your girl here
yeah you know talking and praising God
and uttering things that have been
spoken over her by the generations that
have come before and what it does for
someone like me who is we’re very close
to the same age but what it does for
someone like me who’s got teenagers in
her house
who’s got people that she’s still raised
having a little
anxiety of whether or not I’m doing this
right what what looking at this example
says is just be faithful yeah just to do
the next thing just honor God as best
you can and then trust that he’s got you
back and when you see a young lady like
this who’s build up to overflowing with
God’s Word
I mean seriously it just encourages it
encourages us and it makes us grateful
we’re so grateful that God has given you
the platform that he’s given you because
there are so many millions upon millions
that are being a current encouraged and
whose lives are being changed just by
your example so thank you for living
your lives out loud we’re so grateful I
wanted to tell you that if you do not
have your hands on this book mm-hmm you
need to get your hands on this book this
is live fearless a call to power passion
and purpose just a little bit of that
wisdom was over here a few minutes ago
but she’s poured it all out into this
incredible book say they were so proud
of you so much I’m so excited about all
the people who are gonna hear your voice
on the platforms that you take the
message is that you write the blog posts
that you pose the tweets that you tweet
the clothes that you create everything
that you put your hands to do we’re
asking God to give you favor and
blessing and prosperity and abundance
that his his anointing would be on
everything and that it won’t be about
the clothes it won’t be about the
jewelry but that people will be drawn to
the name of Jesus Christ as you lift it
up higher and higher come on y’all let’s
think
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