318 - This is How We Live with Hope + A Blessing for Parenting
Work and Play with Nancy Ray
Nancy Ray
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another Friday minisode of May is for Mamas. Today, I am inviting back my friend Kimberly. You heard from her last Friday and she is going to read two more blessings over you. I love these two. The first is called "This is How we Live with Hope" and the second is "A Blessing for Parenting." I hope that it encourages you today as you listen.
Resources from this episode:
Small Steps: Blessings to Lift Your Soul on the Pilgrimage of Life by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller
Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Website
Rhythms Reset Discount + Coaching Giveaway Entry
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another Friday minisode of Mayas for Mamas. Today I am inviting back my friend Kimberly, |
| 0:07.3 | you heard from her last Friday, and she is going to read two more blessings over you. I love these two. |
| 0:15.3 | The first is called This is How We Live with Hope, and the second is a blessing for parenting. |
| 0:20.6 | I hope that it encourages you |
| 0:22.4 | today as you listen. You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 318. Much of |
| 0:33.9 | our daily lives can be divided into two categories of work and play. |
| 0:39.9 | Simply put, that's where our life and our legacy take place. |
| 0:45.9 | This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. |
| 0:46.8 | Listen. This is how we'll live with hope. |
| 1:01.0 | We'll get up again. |
| 1:03.0 | Turn down the news, turn up the laughter, share the knock-knock jokes, the ones that have no punchline, but bring fits of giggles nonetheless. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll make beds and breakfast, pack lunches, and feed the animals. We'll make a casserole |
| 1:18.8 | and drop it with a note to a friend, thinking of you. We'll make tacos and buy chips and |
| 1:25.2 | salsa, deliver them to the family with a new baby. Welcome to the world, sweet one. We'll make tacos and buy chips and salsa, deliver them to the family with a new baby. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to the world, sweet one. We'll make phone calls and handwritten notes, delight in children's |
| 1:34.6 | scribbles, a cascade of rainbows and hearts. We'll open doors and windows, listen to birdsong, |
| 1:41.4 | watch the cardinal perch on the evergreen bush. The bees and butterflies hunt for |
| 1:46.2 | nectar. Nature gently reminding us that seasons come and go. We'll plant flowers and scatter seeds, |
| 1:54.6 | water the vegetables, and pray for fruit. We'll weed and till and weed some more. We won't give up on that tiny bean chute |
| 2:03.3 | and marvel at the cucumber vines tendrils climbing the trellis. We'll gorge ourselves on fresh tomatoes, |
| 2:10.3 | bag them for neighbors, make homemade sauce indulge in the goodness of summer. With a resonant chorus of thank you, you're not alone. |
| 2:19.7 | Let me help. We're in this together. I love you. We'll put one foot in front of the other. |
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