S5 Ep169: Joy in the Waiting and Uncertainty
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie talks with her good friend Chelle Bruzas about joy, hope and creating fun in the middle of really hard stuff in our current world. This is not meant to trivialize the huge issues going on right now, but to encourage you to find the light in the darkness and give your mind a break from the stress. So listen in, stop scrolling, maybe take a walk, and listen in to this uplifting conversation. (Affiliate links are used in this content.)
- Chelle talks about checking in on others and loving on new neighbors
- Looking back and seeing how God has given us grace for the hard days
- Holding our vision of the future loosely and surrendering to the Lord
- Doing something out of the ordinary to shake up the monotony
- Make it a priority to build community and be the friend you need
- Taking in beauty in the out of doors
- Find ways to have a gentler routine and a reward at the end of the day
Joy will make us stronger and more capable of dealing with all the heavy things around us.
MacKenzie Koppa- Making small steps in planning loosely to help move forward
- Harkening back to the days of Periscope with listing daily 3 Lovelies
- Announcing the CTL Summer of the RomCom!
- Being gracious and listening, even to those with whom we disagree
Try Softer by Aundi Kobler
Podcasts: Find Chelle-You can find Chelle Bruzas on @chelle_bruzas.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.
Thanks to Our Sponsors-This episode of Cultivating the Lovely is brought to you by Plan to Eat meal planning service. Visit PlanToEat.com/LOVELY to start your free 60-day trial instead of the normal 30-day trial.
CTL is also brought to you by Little Passports. As a CTL listener, you can get 15% OFF the price of any subscription when you use coupon code LOVELY at checkout.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is a good thing to find joy right now and beauty because it will actually build you. |
| 0:07.4 | It will make you stronger. |
| 0:08.7 | It will make you more capable of dealing with all of the heavy things around us. |
| 0:14.7 | Music Welcome to cultivating the lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, |
| 0:30.6 | we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more |
| 0:35.2 | lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great |
| 0:37.5 | conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make |
| 0:42.4 | those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating |
| 0:46.4 | thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:52.0 | or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite |
| 0:54.8 | places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me |
| 0:59.9 | today. Who, ladies, it is an interesting week to be putting out a podcast. I had some second |
| 1:07.4 | thoughts about whether we should be doing it, but I didn't really have much of a choice |
| 1:11.4 | because I am a single mom and I still have to forge ahead with trying to provide for my family. |
| 1:17.0 | And we've had to drop so many weeks off of the podcast because they weren't sponsored that I |
| 1:22.2 | really needed to be able to move forward with this week with the sponsors that we have. |
| 1:26.4 | So I do not put this episode out there to |
| 1:29.0 | offend anyone or deny what is happening in the world. And I think that you will hear that as we move |
| 1:33.8 | into this episode as well. But the fact of the matter is that COVID and Corona and all of that |
| 1:39.0 | stuff is still going on. And I am still trying to provide for my kids. And so I need to show up for them where I need to |
| 1:47.5 | show up and in one of those places is this podcast now next week we will not have a show because |
| 1:53.1 | it is not sponsored but if you happen to know of any businesses who would like to sponsor the |
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