S5 Ep171: Sitting with God in the Hard Places
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We have something a little different for you on Cultivating the Lovely the Podcast this week. Today MacKenzie is doing a solo show and sharing with us how she is handling the hard things in life right now. She also wants to personally invite you to join in with “Take Back Your Life July” and the accountability groups coming up in Patreon next month. (Affiliate links are used in this content.)
- Why MacKenzie decided to do this particular episode at this time
- What working through the attributes of God in Sara Hagerty’s Adore study has done in MacKenzie’s heart
- If you haven’t listened to it yet, you can go back and listen to Sara’s interview on CTL Episode 160
When we can allow our doubts and fears to be exposed to Him, God is gentle with us.
MacKenzie Koppa- MacKenzie reads Psalm 37 and Psalm 73
- Keeping a long-range perspective and remembering God's truth
- Ways that MacKenzie has been dealing practically with hard times:
- Journalling thoughts and prayers
- Leaning into counsel from trusted friends
- Tapping into her emotions through music
- MacKenzie sings "It Is Well" to close out the episode
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Resources Mentioned- Books:Adore by Sara Hagerty
Music: 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.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That's where real relationship and trust is built when we can allow those doubts and those fears |
| 0:07.0 | to be exposed to him because he is gentle with us. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, |
| 0:31.6 | we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, |
| 0:36.4 | and a healthy dose of community to |
| 0:38.4 | help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at |
| 0:42.3 | cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the |
| 0:47.7 | lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact |
| 0:52.0 | with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. |
| 0:55.0 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:58.6 | Okay, ladies, we are doing something very different today, something I don't think I've ever done on the podcast before. |
| 1:07.0 | And that is to have a solo show. It's just me today talking about some things that are really |
| 1:14.2 | hitting home and very personal right now, but I think that they are applicable to what we are |
| 1:20.0 | going through. So we're going to get there in a second, but first of all, I of course want to |
| 1:23.4 | mention that we have a lot going on in Patreon. We always have a lot going on in Patreon. |
| 1:33.1 | But we are especially having fun going into July. We are having our summer of the rom-com series going on, where we watch a different romantic comedy every week just to infuse some lightheartedness |
| 1:38.7 | into our life. And then we get together on a Zoom call and we chat about it. We are also doing |
| 1:43.9 | some new things for July because |
| 1:46.0 | we're all sick and tired of how our lives have been going and how we felt trampled by |
| 1:51.8 | everything going on. And so we decided that we are going to have Take Back Your Life July. |
| 1:57.3 | And we are putting in accountability partners. We have a July guide that walks you step by step |
| 2:02.9 | through everything you need to do to get your life back on track. If you just don't want to think |
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