S1 Ep:1 - Crossing Bridges - Embracing God: Tools for Transforming Your Life

Crossing Bridges with Rae

Struggling with personal trials and seeking spiritual solace? I'm your host, Rachel Mindy, also known as Rae, and in this riveting episode, I shed light on my journey to absolute faith in God. Listen as I unravel transformative practices that have not only fortified my spiritual life but have also been pivotal in overcoming intense personal struggles. From the power of surrendering and meditation to the significance of a dedicated morning routine, engaging in praise and worship, journaling, and the undeniable impact of prayer, I guide you through the steps that have been my anchor during the toughest of times. These practices, although deeply rooted in faith, promise to improve all aspects of life as well.

In the later half of this episode, I extend an invitation to you to join our soul food community on the 'Crossing Bridges with Rae' Instagram page. Here we can connect, share your stories, reflections, and engage in meaningful conversations related to our podcast episodes. Never hesitate to reach out to me through the multiple platforms where the podcast is available. I am immensely grateful for you tuning into this enlightening episode, and I look forward to continuing this beautiful journey of faith and spirituality together, crossing bridges and breaking barriers to deepen our spiritual connections.

Your journey matters, and your voice will always be heard here, so be sure to share your thoughts, questions and reflections with me on my innerwebs.

Thank you for joining me for another episode as we cross this bridge together!

So much Love, Rae

Rae's Links...

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TRANSCRIPT:

00:02 - Rachel "Rae" Mindy (Host)

Welcome Soul Food Family to episode one of Crossing Bridges with Ray. I'm your host, rachel Mindy, aka Ray, and this I'm going to share with you. Just a little bit about me first before we start the episode. So I am a guide and a strategist who is super passionate about elevating minds and souls around self-acceptance, self-love, self-mastery and embracing your personal power through the divine, through the Creator, through God, whatever you call Him. This is something that has changed my life and many who have come before me. So grab some of this soul food and let's go. So today's episode, we are going to start with a question.

00:52

I thought that this question was really important because it could be the same question that you're asking yourself how do you have unwavering faith in God? How, after all the things that you've been through in your life, like where did it come from? Like how did you develop it? This was a question that was asked of me during lockdown, and this came from a very, very, very beautiful person who was going through things spiritually, but she also was going through things, I would say, just kind of sort of overall. I personally feel like when your spiritual life is all over the place, it kind of goes along with your life being all over the place, right, and so she was really trying to understand like you know, I do know some of your personal story, like I do know about, you know, the loss of your daughter or any of the other things that I had shared within this group, and she was just trying to figure out, like, how does this happen? Like, how did you do this, how did you get to this point? And so what I'm going to do is I created some audios a couple of years ago for the purpose of answering this question and I'm going to share them with you. So please excuse my so's and my ums and my ahs or whatever the case may be. It was very raw and like, not even you know, it wasn't even anything that I was trying to be perfect at In this podcast. I will say ums, ahs, I'm Mike Hurst. Don't profess, nor do I want to be perfect. I want to be authentic and I want to come across like you can trust me and you can trust the things that I'm saying, because I know what I'm talking about, right, and so, as as time goes on and as I speak more, the UMS and I will probably disappear, but for right now. Just forgive me for that. So let me just give you a list of the things that I'm going to release on this podcast after this episode, and we can go from there.

02:53

So one of the first things that I'm going to talk about is surrendering. That's one of the first things that I talked to her about and shared with her. Then I went into meditation. I also talked to her about the importance of a morning routine. A morning routine is not just a simple thing. It really elevates you on so many levels because there are principles and practices that you do on a daily basis and you know, stepping into the early hours, when it's more of a divine time of the day. I could go on and on, but I won't because I'm going to share all of these with you, all of these audios.

03:36

I described to her the importance of praise and worship and how music is very powerful in your life and can help you in that realm of just finding who you are and who you are. I also talked to her about journaling and how journaling has been such a healer for me and how she can develop all of these different skills, because this is not something that you've always done, is going to be something that might kind of sort of be a challenge for you at first, but it can be done. I shared with her the importance of prayer and simple ways that she can incorporate it into her day. I also talked to her about the work as well, because the work really is what I just talked about like I'm deaf. I definitely share some really simple ways to start, but what it is is that we just want you to start right and then you can build on it.

04:36

But are you committed to doing work? Because it's not something that happens overnight. I mean, really honestly, anything successful never happens overnight. Right, so it's the commitment and then it's the action that you need to take to get to the, to whatever your personal goal is and your personal end is, whether it's peace of mind, whether it's getting a job I'm sorry, getting a raise at your job, or getting a promotion at your job, or being a better mother and being able to communicate with your children better. Being a better mom I'm sorry being a better wife, husband, girlfriend, fiance, boyfriend, whatever the case may be, like this relationship with God and the and the steps and the foundation, basically, that I'm sharing with you is not just a. It's not religious.

05:29

Okay, these are life. These are life changing practices, tools that are not just about, you know, like reading the Bible and things of that nature, and I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that. What I'm saying is that this changes your life. It changes the way that you communicate with your man. It can. It changes the way that you communicate with your children, with your boss, with your business, with your finances, like when you actually step into who it is that God made you to be.

06:14

That is life changing, and so I just want I just want to say that I don't. I don't want anyone to think that I am sitting here teaching you to. You know read scripture and you know sing certain songs and you know it's. It's so much, so much bigger and it's so much more powerful than you can ever imagine until you actually get into it. I'm not going to tell you that it's going to be easy, nor am I going to tell you that it's going to be hard. It's just going to be challenging. Some of you will be unlearning some of the things that you were taught, and that's fine. That's fine. Some of you will be learning things for the first time, because this is not anything that you've ever done or wherever taught, and that's fine, too, right. All we want, at the end of the day, is to be better, right, and to achieve the goals that we are to achieve in this thing called life, honestly.

07:24

And so, as I wrap up, I want to invite you to. You know, come to my IG page, come to the crossing bridges IG page is crossing bridges with Ray. I want you to share, like when you go through these episodes. I want you to share your reflections, like your own personal stories, your own thoughts. This podcast is going to be on my YouTube page, it's going to be on audible. It's, you know, it's going to be everywhere. So if there are places where you want to just communicate with me, find me. I will make sure that all of my excuse me, all of my communication is available that's connected to this podcast. I absolutely want to thank you for joining me for another episode of crossing bridges with Ray. I invite you to join me on this journey as we cross over together.

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