You are Your Most Whole When you Find That Thing - Part 2 (episode 277-2)
Tune in for an inspiring reminder that God’s plan is often revealed in the everyday moments—if we simply say yes.
How can you stay in the present?
Scotti Taylor shares how she’s learned to trust God daily and see His presence in the small affirmations around her.
She reminds us of the beauty in slowing down with her favorite quote, “Paint what is right in front of you,” a powerful metaphor for living faithfully in the present. Our candid conversation touches on motherhood, perseverance, community, and spiritual growth, offering encouragement for women navigating life’s transitions with grace and faith.
Scotti is our guest this week for Spicy Christian Women - Becoming All that and a Bag of Chips. This is part two.
Scotti has been on the podcast before in I Will Not Be Silent episode 33; Takeaways and Looks Ahead episode 40 and How to Show Up for Each Other episode 108.
You can find Scotti on Instagram Hey Scotti Taylor.
Let God call the shots - just relax into life.
— Scotti Taylor
Yes, Okay, and a Rug
Thoughts from You are Your Most Whole When you Find That Thing - Part 1
It’s true that we have no idea what tomorrow will bring or even how the next hour will go. Sure we might have a plan, a schedule, but we don’t really know. So since we don’t, it’s a better choice to enjoy the present (play on words - it’s a gift) and to relax into what will come as Scotti advised.
This past Saturday I was a part of a one-day women’s conference. Let me set the stage on how this happened. If you’ve been a reader of these pages you know that I am looking to expand beyond the podcast and to encourage women through coaching to become ‘all that and a bag of chips’. This concept is for everyone (men too). One of the ways I’ve been doing this is creating content (writing courses and programs would be another way to say it). One of my passions is to speak on gifts after loss (a specialty).
I felt particularly motivated one day and the material was pouring out of me. The slides were being created based on different ideas I had around this, and I was really on a roll. I had been working a couple of hours when I got a text from Cynthia. We have been connected through the years in faith circles. She asked if we could meet for coffee. I said yes and continued on my merry way, finishing up the project I was working on.
We met the next day and she asked me if I would lead one of the workshops for the conference she was planning. I excitedly shared that I had been writing up a storm when she texted me the day before, and that the content would be the very thing she was asking me to share. We were both amazed at how God works. I had put together the basis for this workshop before I even knew I was going to lead it! That is God.
I am more than pleased to report it was an edifying day for me, for the women who attended the conference, and for those who chose the breakout session I led: Restoration in Brokenness - the Promise of Romans 8:28. In it we were reminded how God was there during all the hard things we’ve ever been through, and how only God could work these things for good. It does not mean who would volunteer for the hard things (we wouldn’t), but that we have faith that he will bring beautiful things from them.
It occurs to me that these truths would make an effective stand-alone course. So I will look into making it one. I think it’s important for us to know this promise and to stand on it. One of the women who attended asked me during the question and answer portion of the workshop, How did you handle the hard thing? And my reply was simply, You say yes, okay. Now that doesn’t mean you like it, and in fact you don’t, but there is a level of acceptance that is helpful to reach if you are going to survive this heartbreak. You say it over and over, day by day, yes, okay. That was the beginning.
Here is a quote that I shared that day. I noticed a few of the women taking pictures of this particular slide which I was hoping they would. It’s entirely possible I have shared it previously but it bears repeating again because it’s that good. Read, ponder, and savor this. Read it aloud with feeling if you dare:
There is nothing – no circumstance, no trouble, no testing – that
can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past
Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come
with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment.
But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and
accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great
purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb
me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause me
to fret – for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is!
That is the rest of victory! - Alan Redpath
I’ve heard it said that from God’s vantage point he sees the unparalleled, exquisite beauty of the topside of how he puts it all together. Think of a rug that has an intricate composition, designed with colors that are delightful to behold. It is magnificent, unique. He sees how it all goes together and it is good. Yet what do we see? We see the bottom side, the knots, the thread woven into something that doesn’t really make sense to us. It’s chaotic and we can’t quite find the pattern or see the bigger picture. And that my friends, is faith. Believing that God is weaving the ‘rug’ of each of our lives into something that is breath-taking, glorious and unrepeatable. We simply have to let him.
Rest in the joy of the Weaver
The opening slide from the workshop
