we have gotten in this culture of comparison and we that we're such binary thinkers we think it's
either this or it's that and and our our worth is not tied to our productivity and we have to
go if i'm at home in my garden or it's a global pandemic and i can't do my vocation or for this
season i can't do a podcast even though i think that's in me that has nothing to do with our worth
but i think we look on instagram or tick tock or social media or what have you and go
well goodness gracious she's doing it all because she's not going to post a video of screaming her
kids or having suicidal thoughts at night she's not going to post that and so i think we have
to be so careful to go like i wa y'all all know christine kane and chris is one of my best friends
i have a very high energy level i've always been a doer and that can be a good thing if i'm keeping
stuff with the holy spirit it can be a bad thing if i'm not but i am a couch potato compared to
chris kane i mean if i compared what i got done in the day to her i'd be like oh my goodness somebody
needs to like you just kick me in the shins but i have another dear friend i won't name
her because i haven't asked her if i could tell this story and i want to be a story keeper diana
um but she's kind of just the opposite of me like if she doesn't have 11 hours of sleep
and like two days to be alone and light candles and read cs lewis she's like good for nothing
and so she'll go goodness gracious lisa i look at your life and i'm exhausted
and i said that's because it's my life god has given me the grace to live my life i said i look
at your life and i would burn the house down with all those candles that's not my life i'm
not content with it and i think we really have to be diligent about going god what have you called
me too and if you're running in your lane you'll have enough energy to cheer for the people running
beside you yeah lisa it reminds me uh a couple years ago i was in brazil and they brought they
came in they speak portuguese so and i don't so i didn't know what was going on but they brought in
this designer and she had all these clothing and they said this girl's gonna dress you
and i i'm like okay good luck and so i'm trying all these clothes and she does all this and
and the girl goes let me tell you the story of this designer and i said okay and she said this
designer is based in brazil and brasilia is the place but she was in new york last year and she
was walking the streets of new york and she was talking to god about her life and the call because
she's a designer and she's a set designer and an illustrator and she said the holy spirit showed
her this design idea she went back to brazil used that design idea on one of the music videos that
they were producing it hit the top of the charts everybody in america was asking for her to come
in and produce this music videos because of her technique and she said because i i partnered with
god and i asked him what he thought in the midst of my productivity all of a sudden he gave me a
otherworldly idea that i had no business even thinking about and i figured out so i think that
the next wave of female modern proverbs 31 women are women that stop and listen to the voice of god
and and become effective not because they're trying hard but because they're listening to
what heaven is asking them to do and they're doing it with excellence what do you think diana
i think you're right on it you're right on it have a lot i i think you know when we think of
the proverbs 31 woman and the 21st century type of you know the modern woman the the commendable
woman it's not so much that it's productivity and being effective and nona i love how you
set up this whole conversation because it's it goes to show us that you know the lord leads the
spirit of the lord leads but demons drive demons will drive us to do things and if you if you
superimpose proverbs 31 over the life of say sarah sarah and abraham okay sarah she you know every
every woman is resourceful and even in the in the middle east being a woman that was setting
up tents i mean she was not just a proverbs 31 woman she was a buff woman all right
and those things are heavy those pegs those tent pegs are heavy and large and to set up shop and
to set it up it takes quite a commendable woman you know but to um be resourceful and to wait
on the promise and then for one for one thing you see how god's promise came into her life
but you also see how she would produce something in her own strength meaning an ishmael and i think
in the 21st century we have to be careful and kind of revisit that story and kind of bring it in um
to make sure that we weighed out and hold out for the promise and do things that are god breathed
and not create ishmael's where it is stealing the joy and the presence of god out of our life and i
think if we can just say to be a resourceful woman is commendable but to be a woman that
hustles i think it gives a negative connotation of that we are not listening to the spirit of
god but we're actually doing things in the spirit and also also produce something that is an ishmael
type of thing and um it's i'm not saying that it's not necessary in moments of life
what i am saying that if you want the god-breathed life wait on the promise wait wait on the activity
of god wait on on god's word you know wait why don't you just wait a little bit longer
before you launch that podcast why don't you just wait a little bit longer before you
host the you know the next thing or or walk into the next thing walk into your next level walk into
the next thing that you have your eye on there's there's wisdom if we're talking about wisdom today
it's wisdom on on in just the waiting and not so much the producing of something that is that god's
not in because you'll you'll have less energy you'll have less joy you'll have less sex and
you'll have less you know opportunities to have connection with people that are really life-giving
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