I have come to a place where I can't love in and of myself.

The love has to flow through me from Jesus to others.

That's how it works.

I'm simply like that I'm like the window and his light shines through.

You know what I mean?

Like that is, that's the reality for me.

Yeah. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. You can find out more about the podcast at cultivating thelovely.com, in our Yellow Brick Road membership community at patreon.com

slash cultivating the lovely, and in our Facebook group. I would also love to connect with you on

Instagram, where you can find me at McKenzie Kappa. That's M-A-K-E-N-Z-I-E-K-O-P-P-A.

Ladies, this week on the show, I have final close local friend that i've been wanting to have on the show

since christmas at least but really long before then because she's just so lovely and so kind and she was

one of the original ladies who helped inspire cultivating the lovely and what it is and where the name came from,

and it is Shell Bruises.

And you're going to hear in this episode just how sweet and kind and fun she is.

I know you guys are going to fall in love with her just as much as I have.

She's such an amazing friend.

I have this tight-knit group of ladies here locally

to me who are just so amazing and they show me friendship in ways that I really never even thought

were possible and I'm so grateful for it. And we really talk about that more in this episode,

things that we have both been through and she's been through and her unique mothering journey.

I think you guys are going to be really blessed by this episode and I hope to have her on again soon.

So if you guys have any specific questions that you would like Shell and I to talk about on an upcoming episode,

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