Worthy Words Heart & Soul for Women of Faith Year 6, Episode 191

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1 Worthy Words Heart & Soul for Women of Faith Year 6, Jory H. Fisher, JD, PCC Kim Crabill Jory Fisher: Hello and welcome to, a radio show designed specifically for Christian women leaders and entrepreneurs. My co- hosts and I focus our discussions on how to live a joyful and a purposeful life by developing healthy bodies and souls, healthy minds and finances, and healthy relationships. Our goal is to help you nourish your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well- being so you can make the difference you re called to make and glorify God through success. I m Jory Fisher, a featured host on BlogTalkRadio with my co- host: author, speaker, ministry leader, inspirer of thousands, Kim Crabill. Good evening, Kim, and thank you for joining me for year six, episode of. How are you? Kim Crabill: Good evening, Jory. It s so great to be with you again. I m wonderful. We re starting out this year fine, and I hope all of our listeners are feeling the same way today. It s so good to have them with us and what a joy it s going to be to have these next 30 minutes to talk about something that is going to be, I think it s going to hit every woman right where she is most useful, and that s with the words that we speak. So I m excited about the next 30 minutes. Jory Fisher: Fantastic. Well, you know, we can take our day in segments and if you re excited about the next 30 minutes, that s a good start, right? Kim Crabill: That s right. Jory Fisher: All right. Well, before we delve into the next 30 minutes, Kim and I are going to tell you a little bit about who we are and how we fulfill our calling. As a professional certified coach, I specialize in helping Christian women get crystal clear on their calling and achieve optimal health in body, mind, and spirit so they can make a considerable and

2 meaningful contribution to the world. Please visit JoryFisher.com to sign up for free e- books and to enjoy hundreds of blog posts and radio show podcasts. Kim, would you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Kim Crabill: Absolutely. My name is Kim Crabill. I have a passion for encouraging and equipping women with God s word. I like to see women empowered with God s promises and to raise up leadership that can truly develop those behind coming along beside them. My ministry page is and I would love for the women to visit it and see how we can work together to empower one another and continuously raise up the leadership across the nation. Jory Fisher: Fantastic. Thank you. Well everybody, let me just say a few words about how to listen to and participate in which airs on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 PM Eastern on BlogTalkRadio. You can listen to any of our archived on demand episodes, follow this show, and add Heart & Soul to your itunes library by going to BlogTalkRadio.com/JoryFisher. We encourage you to share Heart & Soul with your friends and family using the social media icons on BlogTalkRadio and on JoryFisher.com, and to post your comments and questions for us on my Facebook page, Facebook.com/JoryHingsonFisher. Okay, Kim, what are we going to talk about today? You ve already hinted at it. Why don t you just spit it on out? Kim Crabill: It s one thing that we all deal with and something that has great power and that would be the words of our mouths. There s an old saying, Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. I think that s one of the greatest lies, if you excuse that is such a harse word but that s exactly what it is. I think we ve been taught that or children have been taught. They sing it, they say it, and I believe the more we have said it, we tend to believe it. However in our own hearts, we know that truly, it s not true at all because we know that bones heal but words can alter people s lives forever. So today, I wanted us to talk about from a leader s standpoint, because actually when you think about it, who isn t a leader in our society today? Because leadership is actually just

3 our influence that we have. In reality, we are all some type of leader. So lets spend some time thinking about the power of our words. I encourage our listeners, if they haven t already, to grab a drink, get comfortable, and maybe take some notes and think about the power of our words and to understand that we talk about this not to pour guilt or regret upon ourselves but to be able to rectify them or send out red flags the next time that we are about to say something that we don t want to say. It s a discipline that we can learn. So I m interested in this topic because I think it s one that we all struggle with and we all want our words to be worthy and encouraging, and equipping and healing. It s going to be a great topic today, Jory. What do you think? Jory Fisher: Absolutely and I m thinking of approaching it, well, we need to approach really the topic from the positive and the negative. By positive, you referred to how powerful a kind word can be and from the negative, how detrimental a harsh word can be. So I just love this. I don t have a ton of Bible verses memorized. I wasn t in Navigators but I do have several! One of them is the Proverb 16:24, Kind words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. In some versions I think are health to the bones but I just love that - - kind or gracious words are like a honeycomb. Kim Crabill: Absolutely. Jory Fisher: Why don t we start with the benefits that a kind word can bring about in the life of another and in the lives of our own self? Kim Crabill: Well absolutely because we do have self- talk. We are saying things to ourselves all day long so that is a great place to start because the Word, the Bible, tells us that whatever is in our heart, let s see, I think it s Matthew 12:35. He says, Out of the abundance of the heart, your mouth speaks. So it s very important for us to hear what we re saying to ourselves so that we know how to adjust that as well. So that s a great way to start, Jory, is to really listen to ourselves. We can begin by inviting our listeners to write down what they are saying to themselves; write down the phrases that hear in their mind. Lots of times, we don t realize that we re talking, we just think they are thoughts. We don t understand that they are truly words

4 that we are saying to ourselves. Some of those words can be from a past experience. Those words can be from a parent, a neighbor, or a schoolteacher and it could have not been intended to be hurtful but we could have just taken it that way. That s the strange thing with our dialogue. It depends on where you are and how you are going to receive it, but what is it and really begin to pinpoint and write it down so that you can see for yourself the things that you are saying because the Bible also tells us that what we think, we become. So if we are talking a lot of negative talk, then we are likely to follow that talk. It s very important what you said there and the Scripture that I immediately think about from that is Proverbs 8:21 Jory Fisher: Okay. Kim Crabill: Death and life are in the power of the tongue. When you say the word tongue in the Bible, you can just switch that out for words because we know that s what it means. So death and life are in the power of our words. Jory Fisher: Indeed. Kim Crabill: What does the Scripture mean when it says life? Is that literal? that s the death or life of a dream. It s the life or the spirit of someone. It s the positivity that goes on in their well- being. It s anything that encourages. It s anything that s the opposite of death and dying. We can t, and I don t know if you ve ever witnessed this. I bet everyone listening right now has witnessed someone s crushing words being accepted by someone else. When I think most about that, I think of a child and a parent. I ve seen it a lot. I worked with the Head Start program for years and that was something that we helped the parents to see, understanding what their words can do to a child or for a child, whichever way. Jory Fisher: Right. Kim Crabill: Do you have any thoughts on that, Jory? Jory Fisher: Of course I have thoughts. You know me, Kim. Well, I want to go back to something that you were saying about the self- talk.

5 Kim Crabill: Yes. Jory Fisher: Gosh, Jennifer Rothschild wrote a fantastic book called Self Talk, Soul Talk. I highly recommend it and I mentioned it at your retreat in January, which was fantastic, by the way, and I attended the one in Hunt Valley, Maryland. We were supposed to write something in each of our days, in our calendar that we could do that would be modeling the word that we had, and I had May. That month was mindfulness. So one of the things that our little group came up with is when you do start to go down that negative self- talk path to say something positive even if it s, And Jesus loves me. To try to, because our brain, oh brain science is amazing, but it s like we dig out these roots, and if you just keep thinking, Oh, I m sad or Oh, I m ugly, Oh, I m whatever, and you say it over and over again, that s where your thoughts naturally go. So you need to replace that. There s not going to be a vacuum. You absolutely have to replace those negative words, the negative self- talk with positive soul talk. That s one thing I wanted to comment on. Another thing that you said about how people don t realize that they may be hurting you and have no idea that they are hurting you, oh my goodness, I m reminded of, this is back in 1974 and I was in Madrid, Spain. I d spent my junior year abroad over there. I d met a doctor and his family when I first got there. That was in August. They were wonderful and then they had me back over to their house on March 9 th, on my birthday in order to celebrate my birthday with me. Well, the lady answers the door, this beautiful distinguished Madrileña Señora, just beautiful, beautiful, and she opens the door and yes, I had gained weight in Spain. What does she say but, Oh, (in Spanish, something along the lines of) Oh, how wonderful. You look so beautiful. I see you really enjoyed our food! and on and on about how plump I d become, and that to her was a compliment to me. Kim Crabill: Right. Jory Fisher: It was not to me and then she was hurt that I wasn t eating all of the food that she had prepared for me for my birthday. I was so hurt. I m like, how am I going to be able to go back to the States have gained weight in Spain? So that s just an example of how she thought she was giving me a compliment, instead I was about ready to burst into tears.

6 Kim Crabill: Oh, I know and you can see things like that, not even culturally speaking, just with the way that we interact with how we were brought up as children. Now one of the things too that you d said that I wanted to expound on a little bit when you were talking about how our brains just automatically go because of the way we just dig the routes Jory Fisher: Right. Kim Crabill: To the listeners that are listening right now, I want you to understand that this takes time and, Jory, I know that you agree with this. It takes practice to reroute your thinking. So when a negative thought comes into your mind whether placed there by yourself or something from the past, and quite honestly, somebillboards can bring something negative into your mind. You see these beautiful girls. You just automatically go to the negative about yourself, right? but you have to work at rerouting those brainwaves. So when the negative comes in, you have to find something at that moment to negate that and make it positive, and through practice, and what is it they say, 21 days of practice makes a habit, but you have to reroute your thinking so that when you do feel the negative, you route it to a positive. And that s the way God made our brains, which I love because when He tells us that we are not to conform to this world s way of thinking but rather be transformed by the renewing of His word, He literally has made our brains capable of that. I love when you start studying the brain and how it functions that God knew that it was possible. It doesn t make it easy but it makes it possible. We have to become very practiced in that. We have to work at it daily. Jory Fisher: Oh yeah. Kim Crabill: It s not automatically but it s possible. Jory Fisher: It s not. Kim Crabill: So for anyone that s listening and saying, Oh, but I can t do that. I ve had this type of thinking all my life. It is possible. It s very possible. God has made your brain to where you can reroute your thinking and to me, that is so exciting because what it does, it

7 empowers me to take control of my mind and I think that s a pretty powerful thought right there. Jory Fisher: And we do have to take action. Kim, this is sad but my poor mom. You and I have talked about our mothers before and my mother had a tendency to be negative and depressed. I remember one time my dad told her, If you can go 30 days without complaining, I ll and usually it was really something sweet that he was going to do for her. Poor mom just couldn t make 30 days and dad would end up doing the nice thing for her anyway. I don t think my mother ever went 30 days without saying something negative and complaining. It was so sad because she was such a brilliant and funny woman, but her brain waves just got into this negative thinking that you re talking about. Kim Crabill: Yes. Jory Fisher: It ruined her life in many, many ways. God bless her. Anyway, speaking of life, the other thing, another verse that I have memorized was (because it s short) Deuteronomy 30:19, Choose life, and if I remember correctly, the context here is the Israelites were not choosing life. They were going back to their ways of worshipping Bael, this, that, and the other, and I believe it was Moses (since it s Deuteronomy) was saying to them as he was leading the people out, Look, choose life. You need to follow the ways of the Lord. That will be the path to life because they were not going down the right path. I am no Bible scholar but that s how I interpret all of that. Just that verse, Choose life, I mean, we can choose life by stopping beating up on ourselves, stopping saying those negative words. That s a way of choosing life, isn t it? Kim Crabill: Absolutely, absolutely and we can also give other people life by that. What is it, I think it s Ephesians 4:29 when it says that we should only use words that are good for building up as it fits the occasion Jory Fisher: Yes. Kim Crabill: and that s another point that I love about it and it goes returns to my ministry as well as yours with coaching is that the value of having positive people around you, the value of having people who really know you and know your circumstances or

8 where you re struggling or where your goals are for a moment because in this Scripture, it says to use the words that are good for building up as it fits the occasion. There s nothing like having a live word that fits right into where you are. Words can bring life and hope back into you when you re about to give up on something or when you are so discouraged that you could walk away. So that s another way that our talking has to take action as you were mentioning. It s so true. We have to take action in getting to know one another and really trusting one another with our lives. I always say, Bother people. We re always thinking, I don t want to call, I don t want to bother that person. I think that s part of this whole dialogue that we need to bring up is that we re really not bothering. We just have this thought, again, that negative self- talk. Jory Fisher: Yes. Kim Crabill: that in this day and time, we need to bother one another in this encouraging way. It makes you feel good when you have a person who calls and needs to just talk. Jory Fisher: Yes. That s really true. Well, Kim, can you talk a little bit about maybe some of the beautiful experiences of life that you saw in January in all of the, what did you do, four retreats or something? I only got to attend one of them but I know you saw some wonderful, wonderful examples of people choosing life, speaking life into each other s world while you were doing these retreats. Kim Crabill: Well, we did and one of the things that I do quite often. It really doesn t start out as positive as women think that they are going to do. I ask the ladies to share what are the hurtful words, what are the things that you deal with. The negative talk, what is it that you say to yourself that is preventing you from being your best? They write it on paper and then we pass those pieces of paper around and around and around where they can t be traced and then the ladies actually stand up and read this. So they are reading someone else s hurt. So for many of these ladies, it s the first time that pain deep in their soul has been articulated but then we invite them to pray or say a word of encouragement to these women, and it s amazing, Jory.

9 It s amazing how the walls begin to break down and the tears flood forward. We see the fear of words that we have said to ourselves, Oh, what if they knew? Oh, no one would understand me. Oh, they will completely ostracize me, but, in reality, what we see is just the opposite. God s truth is just the opposite of our thinking and it breaks down walls and barriers, and even though no one really knows who said what, they just know that we all are dealing with something. We all learn immediately the value of words of encouragement, the value of really listening. So that s something that I did a couple of times in January that opened the floodgates of new types of friendships and new ways to minister to one another with worthy words. Jory Fisher: Mm- hmm. Kim Crabill: It s amazing how simplified ministry can become when we think about the power of our words on a daily basis. Jory Fisher: Right and hopefully now and forever, we ll be concentrating more on how we can speak life into people s lives rather than tearing them down. You mentioned earlier about parents speaking poorly of their children and it is like the self- fulfilling prophecy. If a child hears over and over again, You re stupid. You can t do this or even something like you re a mathematician and keep focusing on something that s leading them down the math and engineering path, the S.T.E.M. line, when actually, they are a budding musician, that can mess them up too. Kim Crabill: Right. That s right. Jory Fisher: We have to be very careful of the power of our words especially if we re in a position of authority. I know you don t like to think of yourself as being in a position of authority, Kim, but you are a leader. You are a leader and I just love how humble you are. I ve seen you in action so many times and you re so honest, vulnerable, and transparent. It s so refreshing to see that in a leader because so many people that we think of as leaders are reluctant to show a frail side, a lesser side, a vulnerable side. It s that authenticity in you that I think makes us all love you so much. Thank you for being authentic.

10 Kim Crabill: Thank you for saying that. I do know that our power, the power of words can be demonstrated in a larger scope if you have people who are listening to you or value your opinion. There are many times that as a leader, you don t have the right to speak back. If someone said something against you, your ministry, your practice, or your coaching as a leader, we can cause or create confusion if we try to retaliate with words. I ve learned, for those who are listening right now, that those who are in ministry or teaches Sunday school class, or whatever you re doing and you know that people really value what you have to say, when something comes against you, the Bible says that eventually, the truth will be known. I would say, I have found that it s best for me to keep quiet and let things play out as they need to play out. Jory Fisher: Mm- hmm. Kim Crabill: It doesn t benefit anyone to speak out on a matter unless it s in a positive way. I ve learned that it isn t good and there s really no reason to try to justify yourself. We all are doing the best that we can and if we make a mistake, we make a mistake. That kind thinking goes back to what I m fearful of what we do, or what others listening could do right now. I m so afraid that there are moms or dads or office managers who are thinking, Oh my, and they are making a list of the things they said to their child that maybe is now grown or something and begin to regret. I always fear that some of them may misunderstand a word that I ve spoken and feel condemned. Condemnation is never from God, number one. He ll convict us to do better but condemnation is that thinking and the words that we heap upon ourselves, but one thing that I have learned about my life and my words is that we can get stuck in the negative. I ve learned when I mess up, I fess up, and I keep going. What that means is there are some times when I think, Oh gosh, I probably shouldn t said that to one of my children. Now they are adults. I ve decided it is okay to go back and say, You know, I remember that time when I said that and this is what I was thinking and I m so afraid that maybe that is staying with you and I just want to explain to you what I meant. Jory Fisher: Oh, yes.

11 Kim Crabill: I feel like if it comes to your mind, you can rid yourself of that feeling of regret and you can also make amends with the child. Most of the time, the child doesn t even remember but just in case, it clears your mind, it rids you of this weight, and you don t have to live with any regret or condemnation. For anyone that s listening today, I pray that you ll not feel condemned of past words. For me, this is just a way for us to continuously be getting better as we live from day to day. Jory Fisher: Oh yeah. Kim Crabill: It s the positive that we look at. Jory Fisher: We all make mistakes and maybe parents make more mistakes than others. Kim Crabill: Yes because we care so much and we re trying so desperately. Jory Fisher: We are, we are. You know, what you said just reminded me of a quote that you and I talked about earlier, a Mother Teresa quote, Kind words can be short and easy to speak but echoes are truly endless. So think about that. Maybe you did say a harsh word to a child. Maybe you said a harsh word to your husband, maybe a harsh word to a co- worker or a friend, but go back, confess, make a mess, then confess, I love that. What did you say, mess up and then fess up? Not that you re telling us to mess up Kim Crabill: When you mess up, fess up, and keep going. Jory Fisher: I love it but go back and say a kind word and then the echoes will be truly endless, hopefully. Kim Crabill: Absolutely and you know quite honestly, in a lot of companies, they teach their employees to, I know this is probably a secret, but to mess up every once in a while Jory Fisher: Really? Kim Crabill: so that they have the opportunity to call back and say, Oh, we overcharged you for a couple of dollars. We did this and we want to make it up. Jory Fisher: Oh no.

12 Kim Crabill: It s great PR. Jory Fisher: I had no idea. Kim Crabill: But to go back and to admit, to catch something that you didn t mean to do and then to make it right. Now, that sticks in the mind. So there s not much that we cannot correct in our lives. There s nothing that we should walk around feeling regretful for. I just feel like that s a real positive that we want to leave, I want to leave in my life and I hope that all of our listeners will take cue to today because words are a powerful thing and I want our words today to be very positive as well. Jory Fisher: Absolutely. One tip that I was thinking that I m sure others have heard this as well but if you re thinking something negative towards somebody, just give yourself a 24- hour cooling off period. Whether it s to send an and then wait 24 hours and read that , and go Maybe I don t need this and that after all. Kim Crabill: Right. Jory Fisher: Of course I m not a big believer in lecturing somebody with an anyway. I think if there s an issue, it should be face to face if at all possible, at least on the phone. If you re tempted to say something negative, just put on the breaks there, sister. Wait at least 24 hours, see where you are, and then hopefully talk about it. What would you say? Kim Crabill: Well, that s very valuable in the moment because of all the social media that s out there as well. Jory Fisher: Goodness, yes. Kim Crabill: Yes, you see people ranting and raving. I ve heard about it more than I ve seen it because anybody that I see that on, I would just delete because that s not anything that I want. Jory Fisher: Unfriend, yes. Kim Crabill: Yes, I don t want that type of but yes, with the bullying that s going on now with the kids, so yes, definitely and just to remember, I think sometimes we forget that the

13 other person actually bleeds and hurts the way we do so I think we could do a whole show on the social media words but yes, I agree. For any of the young people that may be listening today to really remember that you though you maybe young, you may be in middle school or high school, wherever you are to remember that you have a great influence as well and you re a leader. Your words matter and you can be one who chooses to do things differently and for every one person no matter what the age that stands up and does something right, they will have someone to follow them. So you really won t be alone. You ll have someone who will want to be as good, as thoughtful, and as caring. Dr. Phil says, Someone has to be the hero, and that s true. That s one of the things he says I truly believe. Someone has to be a hero and there s no age limit that comes with that. For any young people listening, I would just challenge them to be a hero to some of these others who are hurting so much. Also, Jory, something you said I think that we could all take as a challenge today. I love what your father did for your mom. I love that challenge. Jory Fisher: I know. He s so sweet. Kim Crabill: I love that. I think that could be a challenge to everyone of us listening today that we just take that challenge and go for 30 days and try to be very positive in our thinking first toward ourselves, secondly towards those living in our homes, and then thirdly, those outside our homes and just see how we feel better by becoming a more positive person. I think it s a great challenge. I m up for it. Jory Fisher: Well, at least let us do it then. All that negative talk I hear you saying, I m just going to say, Now, now, Kim, you can t do that. Kim Crabill: I m so glad you live an hour from me. Jory Fisher: That s right, I m not in your home, right? Oh, that s so terrible. Another thing just before we close here, you and I talked one time about the Mary Kay message, about making people feel important. Can you say something about that?

14 Kim Crabill:. Mary Kaye said the secret to her success was what she saw as she approached people, she saw an invisible sign that they wore that read, Make me feel important. Jory Fisher: Yes. Kim Crabill: I mean, I think that you can do that in a very sincere way, not in the way of a false flattery but in a very sincere way because people will know if you re not sincere and I think that there s so much value in every person that we meet that we truly can find something and say it in a way with sincerity that they understand, that we mean what we say and that we really care about them. The easiest way that we can affect our world today is to really look for the positive in each of those around us and not only see it, but to make sure to articulate it. We can think it all day long but to really say it to someone is a great thing. Jory Fisher: Yes, yes. Kim Crabill: It s a building up so yes definitely. I think about that very often. She was a very, very engaging Jory Fisher: Influential. Kim Crabill: person who loves people and worked to bring out the best in them, yes. Jory Fisher: Yes. It s so good. Kim Crabill: That s a ministry we each have today. Jory Fisher: Yeah and starting right in our own homes. For those of us who are married, our spouses, our children help make them feel important. Kim Crabill: Yes. Jory Fisher: How many husbands come home and their wives don t get excited when they walk in the door? I mean, a lot of times I m on the phone when my husband walks in the door. Kim Crabill: Right.

15 Jory Fisher: but as quickly as possible as soon as I get the phone, I like to go greet him, hug him, and kiss him and tell him I m glad he s home. You know, make him feel like Kim Crabill: Right. Jory Fisher: he s been out there slaying those dragons and of course I ve just been sitting here eating chocolate bonbons but that I m excited that he s home. Make him feel important. We could do a whole show on that. Kim Crabill: That s true, we could and yes, and maybe if our listeners listened today call and say that they d like that, we ll do it. How about that, Jory? Jory Fisher: Sounds good. Well right now because we are getting close to the end time here, Kim, please tell people about C.O.F.F.E.E. and of course we ve already started the winter session in Hunt Valley, Maryland but let people know how they can get involved or contact information, whatever you want to say. Your ministry is all about this and we just heard so much about how the greeters, at least I can speak for the club, if you want to call it a club, the organization, the ministry that we have going in Hunt Valley, the greeters help people who come in off the street, don t know a soul (I was one of those - - I didn t know anybody when I came the first time a year ago) feel welcome. So feel free to spread the news about C.O.F.FE.E. Kim Crabill: Well, I would love to. It is my goal. C.O.F.F.E.E. really began from just the passion of finding a place for each of us, to have a group of women, small group, large group, whatever that you can really relate to on a safe based platform and really be able to talk and share your heart. C.O.F.F.E.E. stands for Conversations Of Friends of Faith to Encourage and Equip. I love helping women start these C.O.F.F.E.E.s. Find two or three friends that you would like to connect with on a deeper level and the teachings that I do on Wednesday mornings that, Jory, that you re talking about are found and if you contact me and say, Kim, I have two or three ladies. I d really love to start a deeper dialogue, a deeper conversation with these ladies. We will send to you everything you need. We will send the tapings that groups use all around the nation. Each group gets the taping, they listen, and

16 then we also provide discussion points, discussion questions that takes you deeper into the subject matter. So that s my heart and passion. I feel like it s so easy for we as women to hide behind a mask and not know where to go to talk about those things that are hurting us, how to deal with all the self talk and all of the things we ve talked about so I encourage anyone to please contact me at Kim@RosesandRainbows.org and I will get back with you immediately and help you begin a small group. We have several churches that are involved You can start your own group that I promise will impact your life in such a positive way that you will never want to quit and I also promise within a year, your group will have doubled in size because people will want to come. So just me and let s get your group started now. It s important to act. Jory Fisher: And now we re starting some in Canada as a result of this radio show, huh? Kim Crabill: Yes absolutely. Jory Fisher: Yay! Kim Crabill: Yes, Jory. You have great, great listeners and they listen but they are called to action, and that s what I love. That s what we, as women, need more of. We have so much influence that we don t even realize when we are called to action. We see it working before our very eyes. It s a good thing and I would be glad in any way. Jory Fisher: Wonderful. All right everybody, well, thank you for listening to Heart & Soul for Women of Faith. This is Jory Fisher, encouraging you to create optimal health for your life, ministry, and business so you can fulfill your purpose with ease and grace, and glorify God through success. Kim, I d like to invite you to say a prayer for our listeners today, if you would. Kim Crabill: Absolutely. Dear Father, we just come before you and we thank you for the power of words that you have given us. Thank you that you have laid out the plan of how we can bring life, how we can speak life into those around us. May you give us the words,

17 may you help us see the needs, and may you help us recognize the occasion to which our words will fit. Through your glorious name, we all pray, amen. Jory Fisher: And thank you everyone for being with us. Thank you so much, Lord, for bringing Kim into my life and into the lives of so many people. Kim, you are truly a blessing and may the Lord protect you as you continue to serve so many women. Kim Crabill: Thank you Jory. Jory Fisher: Well everybody, until we meet again. May the Lord bless you and keep you and be gracious unto you. May the Lord grant you prosperity and peace. Enjoy this music now by David Nevue and that s N- E- V- U- E. God bless you. Bye! Kim Crabill: Bye. Transcription by Alma Noefe