Your life can look fine on the outside while your inner world feels overgrown, dry, and loud. That’s why this conversation with Candice Lynn Talmadge stopped us in our tracks: she explains “garden meditation” as a grounded spiritual healing practice in which we meet the whole self and start tending to what we usually avoid.
We talk through her story, healing framework, and the idea that we are made of more than a mind and a body. Candice breaks down the four parts of self and the deeper “aspects” that shape connection, perception, expression, and love. Using a vivid garden metaphor, she shows how self-judgment acts like weeds that choke our ability to receive unconditional love, and how denial can become a drought where nothing healthy can grow.
If you’ve ever wondered why you feel stuck in fear, worry, or isolation, this offers a compassionate way to look inward without getting lost there.
We also go into why emotions and even physical symptoms can be meaningful signals, not just problems to silence. I share my own experiences of learning to receive God’s love, letting go of old identities, and speaking to the wounded parts of myself with honesty and care. Candice brings it home with practical insights on forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and taking back your power so you can love others from a full cup rather than out of need.
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
I’ve still got a lot of fun left.
Hey Lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Release Out Review of Purpose. And today is Candice Lynn Talmage. She’s here to talk about garden meditation. Never heard of that term before, but I will tell you that as I read it, a lot of visions came to the forefront of my mind. Gardening is something that’s been the hobby that just kind of came out of nowhere. But I know that that’s not out of nowhere. In my case, faith-based woman that I am, it’s almost like God’s way of saying he’s be more in the garden. And you need to understand what planting seeds is all about, how long it takes, patience and my timing. And if anyone has ever gardened, you know that you don’t just plant a seed and it sprouts right right away. And we live in a society where we want things now. And I think that’s where our mind gets stuck. And so when I read Candace Lynn’s biography, I thought, this is very interesting. This concept is very interesting about self-healing, story healing, and garden meditation. So without further ado, Candace Lynn, thank you so much for joining us on Release Out Reveal Purpose.
Well, I’m really glad to be with you, Sylvia. So if you want to start with the garden meditation, this is part of story healing, because the purpose of story healing is to bring all four parts of self, not three, not two, four. We are bodies, we are conscious minds, but we are also hearts and souls. All right? Four parts to self. And ideally, those four parts of self balance each other in a place in our consciousness. Uh, if you’re if you’re using sort of eastern words, it would be the heart chakra. And there’s simply a chakra is simply an energy center in the energy of your consciousness, all right? The awareness of you, your being, your eternal soul. All that energy is wrapped up together in the you you are today. All right, and I’m talking about everybody, all right. Your physical body is the material presence with which you live, in which you live on planet Earth, all right. But you’re also a conscious mind, you’re also a subconscious mind or emotional body, you’re also an unconscious mind, an unconscious mind is a spiritual body, all right? All right, and you know, I’m not precise in my labels because labeling is not the point. All right, working with this energy, becoming familiar with this space within self. This is your sacred place, all right? All right, people talk about the holy land, but I kind of agree with Nicholas Black Eld when he said the Holy Land is everywhere because God created this earth, every part of this earth is sacred, and the thing the same thing is true with you, every part of you is sacred. Let’s not denigrate the physical because the physical exists for a very good reason, because we get experiences, we learn how to love, we grow in faith when we are in the physical body, because it has demands that we don’t have in the spiritual realm. Now, you know, religion talks about you are an eternal soul. Well, how is you know your physical body isn’t eternal, it certainly dies at some point. So, how are you eternal? What makes you eternal? Well, that’s because the consciousness of you, your energy field, if you will, and I know that sounds a little new agey, but it’s really the same thing. It’s another term for soul. Your soul being, your soul energy that surrounds your physical body is the eternal part of you, it does not die with the physical body. All right, now it goes to heaven, or you know, however you imagine that to be. I’m not going to argue with you because I can’t prove it one way or the other. So I just think of the garden as that sacred space within, and there you go in a meditation that’s it’s sort of like what I would call a working meditation to meet the four parts of you or the seven aspects of your being and bring them together because there is something very specific that is keeping them at loggerheads, all right? And that loggerheads is the judgments that you hold against yourself in your subconscious or emotional body. You don’t know consciously you’re judging against self, but you are, and the Bible says, judge not lest you be judged. I take that phrase to mean you have judged yourself, and you know you have because you judge other people. So look to your own self-judgments. Jesus also said, you know, stop worrying about the speck of dust in your neighbor’s eye and ignoring the plank in your own. Okay, you have your garden to tend to, all right? And this is where you tend it in this garden meditation. I can’t tell you how many times I go into my garden and I’m working through something that’s very emotional, very heavy duty, and all I do is ask, and God is present. All right, that is where I talk to God, all right, in my garden with the seven aspects of my being. Well, you say, well, there’s four parts of self. Why are there seven aspects? Because the soul has four aspects, whether or not it lives in a physical body, and those aspects are connection to God, to others, to yourself. Another aspect is perception. The gifts of the spirit are the ability to see beyond and perceive beyond the obvious, all right, to discern what is in not just others’ hearts, but what is in your own heart. Another spiritual aspect and right is expression. All right. Freedom of expression, as far as I’m concerned, is given to us by God. All right, we are free to express, and if we don’t do that, we detract from our own integrity. All right, we have a right to express, and we can do so well, we can do in an ugly manner, or we can do it in a loving manner. It’s up to us. All right. And the last aspect of the soul is love. God is love, we are made out of love, and we, the souls that we are, have the ability to love. How much of that ability we can actually express and experience and exercise is very much determined by how much self-judgment we hold against ourselves. Because one thing that judgment does, self-judgment does, is it limits our ability to love.
It certainly does.
It certainly does. Yes. So what we want to do is we want to bring those four aspects of our spiritual being together with our mental body, our achiever, what we get done in this world, you know, the logical, rational measuring, labeling, analyzing, synthesizing, beautiful part of self that gives us the rational mind, which God also gave us. Then we have the emotional body that we live in on earth, that is the part of self that feels, feels love, or feels something that isn’t quite love, whatever we feel. That’s important. And then finally, we have our physical presence. All right, and the body, physical body has its own intelligence, its own feelings, its own needs, and also we bring all of that together and we say, okay, what’s going on? What can I help you with? You know, let them talk to you, let them talk to each other, and we meditate on that, and I do that I don’t not once a day, but multiple times a day. In fact, I’ve gotten to the point where I can tell that my aspects are doing this on their own. And sometimes they’ll say, Hey, Candace Lynn, over here, we need you, you know. So I’ll okay, you know, because they’ll be doing something and they want my intake and they want me to, you know, be very aware of that consciously that that’s what’s happening. So that is where we try. Now, again, you know, most people for most people, I mean, the I know I’ve done many, many garden meditations for other people throughout the years. And always when we go in at first, the garden is tiny and it’s kind of ill-lit, and there are weeds and blah blah blah, all that kind of stuff. So, what we do is we start clearing it out, we start lifting self-judgments and expanding the garden because the garden is really where two things happen: the soul anchors into the physical body, and God’s love comes to us, all right? And we always see that divine love as some sort of flow of water, whether it’s a stream or whether it’s a fountain or something. My flow is this huge waterfall because I have a beach. I mean, I like the beach, so my garden turned into a beach, and we have lounge chairs and we have a hot tub right under that flow of love. I mean, and all my aspects are sitting there, you know, hey, having a drink, you know, with the umbrellas and all that kind of stuff, and we talk to each other that way. It’s very loving, very supportive. So it’s it’s a wonderful experience. It can be very emotional, but that’s good because emotions are your friends, they are your teachers, and they are messages. All right. When you’re feeling something, there’s usually something behind it that you want to pay attention to and maybe even resolve and let go of.
Yes. In fact, uh previous interview to you, that’s exactly what we talked about. We talked about how feelings can also deceive us. So we have to be aware of where how that feeling is showing up and actually sit with it, allow it, talk to it, you know, feel it, not avoid it because a lot of us want to immediately run, avoid pain at all costs because we don’t want to sit with it. And yet, and the other aspect we were talking about is that God sits with you, with those feelings. It’s not like he’s abandoned you, he’s there with you as you are moving through these feelings and just as you’re releasing it to him. In my case, I I’ve taught my children, you know, your feelings are clues, your mind is giving you. They’re giving you all these pieces, like God just kind of gives these pieces of a puzzle almost, as you are revealing, he’s revealing to you in his timing. And I I really loved how you described the seven elements. I’m curious, Candace Lynn, how you arrived at doing the garden meditation. What part of your journey got you here? Were there dark moments in your life that brought you to this space that you are now living purposely from?
Well, I would say that yes, there are there are dark moments, and in most people’s lives, there are dark moments. All right. It’s how you respond to those dark moments. I have found for myself that dark moments show up in my life when I have emotional and spiritual issues that I am not facing and not resolving and not being willing to look at and examine, all right? Because that emotional body is magnetic, all right. Your spiritual body and your mental body are electric, but your physical body and your emotional body are a magnetic energy, and you attract to you events, people, experiences out of that magnetic emotional body. All right. So what are you attracting and what are you feeling? Because your feelings will determine what you attract. I mean, it’s not it to me, it’s a gift of from God the feeling and the attraction. Because what you get is precisely what you need and can use to heal and grow, and what keeps, as you were saying, kind of like pieces of a puzzle, they’re a puzzle only because our awareness, our self, our being is fragmented and fractured and disconnected by self-judgment. As soon as you start pulling self-judgment out of your energy and letting it go, giving it back to God, suddenly you become more united, more whole. Alright? This is where I have a I have an issue with medicine that doesn’t take in and actively use all four parts of our being. Alright? You know, in traditional allopathic medicine, we’re just bodies. But illness doesn’t come out of nowhere, right? The body is meant to be healthy and whole because that’s what God created. When we judge against self and we have those judgments crimping our emotional ability to love and to attract and to receive God’s the flow of God’s unconditional love, then disease between the four parts of self arises, and physical disease reflects that inner disease. Alright. So not only are your feelings messengers, but aches and pains in your physical body are also signals. Physical disease is a signal, it says there’s something emotional and spiritual you are not addressing, and I am trying to get your attention by hurting. Alright. But again, we don’t do this, and what I’ve always wanted is healing. I don’t want to slap a band-aid on it. I don’t want to treat high blood pressure by taking blood pressure medications for the rest of my life. I can use them, but what I’m really going for is to find where the blood pressure goes up, what within me is causing my body to signal with high blood pressure. All right. And that’s it’s not I can’t snap my fingers and do this. It is a journey of self-growth. You know, Jesus wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. We wander in our own inner wilderness because, again, we don’t know what it’s really for, and we aren’t looking to release self-judgment because God gave up judgment. All right, God is no longer judging us, we’re judging ourselves, and it feels like God is separated from us, but what’s really happened is we have separated from self and we have separated from that flow that keeps us one with God. In fact, I have names for all my seven aspects, and my spiritual connection aspect told me, we know in certain terms, that her name is Asana. Well, I know that’s a yoga pose, but I looked it up and studied a little bit further, and the word means one with God, which is totally appropriate for what she does. She is my connection to God, to me, to the multiverse, and to each other’s, and she’s my connection within me, all parts of me with me. So she plays a key role, and but that self-judgment and denial severs or restricts that connection, and so we feel alone, isolated, God isn’t talking to us, and God doesn’t answer my prayers. God always answers your prayers. The question is, how open are you to receive God’s love?
And that I think is a very powerful question to ask because a lot of us are very good at giving, very bad at receiving. Very bad at receiving. I know I’m guilty of that, and you have to sit me down recently and say, You’re doing too much. I’m not asking for that. I already have my love. Why are you striving for it? And it was an honest conversation, and it was it was pausing to be present, truly present with him, and I think that’s why he directed me to my own garden outside because it was full of weeds, it was in disarray, and it’s how I felt on the inside. I didn’t believe in him, I didn’t believe in who I am in him. I believed in him and I trusted him. I didn’t believe who he says I am in him, and so he had to sit me down hard too. It was like, hey, you’re going in the wrong direction. I don’t want you to go in this direction. I need you to sit still for a moment. And so I as I started going into the garden, that’s also where I reflect, where I have chats with him, but I also have chats with him in the mornings with coffee. It’s my only coffee of the day, and he’s my first appointment of the day. And I sit with him, I sit in my dining room. My husband’s a wonderful woodworker, too, aside from electrical engineer that he does for a living. But and he had carved out this beautiful image of Christ on the actual cross because his face is on there. And I’m staring at it in the morning. So I have a visual image of him, and behind me is my father’s picture when we put him to rest um two years ago. Um I’ll sit with my steaming cup of coffee and I’ll I’ll talk to him. I’ll have my coffee chats with him, and I’ll sit now. Better like months ago, I would just kind of open up my app and go through the motions, but I wasn’t really allowing his words to seep into me. Much like when we garden, we we plant a seed and we nurture it, we give it the water it needs, and we make sure it gets the sunlight it needs, and sometimes the minerals and extra food that it needs. And I’ve even gotten to the point where I start talking to my plants, and my daughter looks at me like I’m insane. But it’s the way I want to, I’m also talking with myself of I talk lovingly to myself, right? When I wrote my first manuscript back in 2020, he had prompted me to write my first book. I had denied him for 13 years, for those listening. I told basically the maker of the universe that he didn’t know what he was talking about by telling him now for 13 years, because he said, You need to write the book now. It’s time, trust me. And it’s 2020, and I’m sitting there writing this manuscript, and I sat with all of those belief systems, all those feelings that were just blocking my light immensely. And the whole process of that was to heal from the inside out. I didn’t know it at the time. I just trusted him. I did it, I stayed obedient to him. It was not an easy thing to do, but so necessary. Oh my goodness, so necessary, so freeing. All these belief systems that once held me captive in my own cage of my own doing were lifted after the release of the book. And not only that, but I healed my relationship with my dad because see, God knows what’s coming. We don’t. He sees everything, his knowledge just Ours is limited to our own lives. Like he sees the impact we’ll make on other people. Like your impact on someone on the other side of this podcast. He sees it like months later. We are just we show up because this is our mission. This is how we we live our life now. And after that release of the book, I healed my relationship with my dad. In the last four years, we were friends. But forever, you could cut the tension with a knife every time we were in the same room. But it’s beautiful to see how he guides us. He guided you through this garden meditation through your own pain, you know, of losing someone you dearly loved in 2020. And I’m sure that’s your garden meditation practice probably took off from that, from that. Or was it or were you already doing it prior to 2020?
Oh, I was already, I was already doing it. And my late wife was the one who took me through my this was the last time she had been taking me through Sunon Story Healing since 1986. And late in 2019, um, we didn’t know it at the time, but she had lung cancer back then. It was the last garden meditation she took me through, and she helped me build the beach, set up the beach in my garden. All right, because she knows how much I like, you know, the tropical, except I don’t like the humidity in the tropics, but I still love the palm trees and the sand and the beach and you know, sound of the waves. So that’s what’s in my garden now. And yes, so the garden meditation is part of Sunon’s story healing, it’s a big part of it, and it allows us to come together, all of us, because there is you do have an inner community, all right? Those four aspects, the seven aspects of your being, and they all if if they are in the garden and in harmony, your life will be a lot more peaceful, and you will start bringing to you what it is you truly desire. But most people are just they’re they’re so scared, they’re so fearful of what they’ll find within their own being that they’ll look the other way, that you know, they’d probably rather have a root canal or a an IRS audit, all right, and actually go within. And the only thing you’ll find there is you and around the corner, God. God’s always waiting, you know? Because we’re never we’re never separate from God except when we erect our own fences. And again, in my purview, my way of being, the fences are self-judgment and denial. All right, we we don’t like I mean, you know, on a limited level, you know, people call alcoholism the disease of denial. You drink alcohol to medicate something that’s bothering you, and you really don’t want to examine it closely.
Yes.
So even if you don’t drink alcohol or do drugs or whatever, you probably are not wanting to look at something or some things within, and you are in some sort of state of denial. So it’s about recognizing that there is nothing within that God will not help you heal. All right, nothing.
That is true. There are so many things that he’s helped me heal. There’s not enough time in the podcast interview to go through all of them, but just in the last year to relate to what you’re talking about, he pulled out of me my biggest piece of my armor. And then he had a hard time with this one. Pride, because I was unwilling to let go of it for a while until he until I came to my knees. Like it brought me to my knees, and that’s where I just felt a release of the self-judgment, of the unworthiness that I carried within. And I sat with parts of me that were very hard to look at, but they were wounded parts of me that had taught me so much that had survived some of these huge turning points, who had been trying to teach me the lesson, certain lessons that I refused to learn. And God was, I always call God the great surgeon. He took a scapel and he said, I’m going to remove this because this is not gonna help you. This is not helping you, this is preventing you from stepping into the brighter light of you, like who your your true essence is. She can’t step in there until you learn this, and until you start accepting this. And I and I willingly went because at that stage in my relationship with him, I had gotten to a point where I just I wanted to let go of these I these old identities, the old self that just kept creeping up. Not the self that when you when you start to really understand his word and the way it’s and what he’s revealing to you. In my case, what he revealed to me was you don’t believe in who I am telling you you are in me. You don’t believe in the new creation you are in me. You don’t believe in that. Interestingly enough, I was outside in my garden and I had a full-on conversation with my 17-year-old bullied self that was very hurt, still very hurt, and very in fight mode, in warrior mode, but not in a good way, in a really bad way. And I and I I remember just sitting with her and saying, I love how much how many lessons you taught me when I was a kid. I love that you helped me survive. And I went through all the things that she helped me do. And then I lovingly hugged her and I said, I need to release you to God because you’re not helping me right now. You’re really, it’s hurting to to to keep this in in my pro, you know. So it wasn’t in alignment, she’s there still, she’s just there in a healed state now, not in a wounded, triggered state as she once was. But it does take some conversations and some God moments and seeking God. And and I know to the people listening, they’re probably, I don’t know what they’re thinking of this interview, but I’m being as honest as I can be. And there were parts of me that needed time. And I’m sure there were parts of you that needed time too, to get to the space, to this purpose that you’re living, right, Kennisla?
Uh very much so, yes. And there are parts of most people, I imagine, who need that also. All right. And and what you do in Sunon Story Healing is you get to that part and you do exactly as you did. You examine that part lovingly, you treat that part like you would treat your own best friend. And then you use the gifts of the soul perception to perceive what self-judgments that part has made and say, Look, is this helping? And that part makes a new decision. Do I want to keep this or do I want to let it go? And usually part says, Oh, let it go, I’ll let it go. And you let that self-judgment go, you ask for God’s unconditional love to rebalance your energy, an extra boost, alright? Because balance is key to health. So, but then you go further. You not only forgive the person who is involved in that wound, you forgive yourself. That’s key. Alright? You forgive yourself because what there really is behind every self-judgment is a power exchange that ultimately is not healthy. And by power, I mean your energy and your love, you throw it out of your consciousness into the consciousness of the other person or persons involved, and they give you theirs. Now you can’t use it. It’s unique, it’s your God-given energy and consciousness and awareness, and it’s unique, and God gave that to everybody. So when your energy is mixed up with someone else’s, it’s not balanced or healthy. So the really hidden part of healing is a forgiving self and taking back your power. And when I was first working with my late wife, Jana, I could sense that, I could feel it. It was like there were holes in me that I had no conscious aware of awareness of, and they filled back in whenever we went in, and I released the self-judgment, and I forgave myself and others, and then took back my power. Because it’s really important for all of us to do that, because that’s the source of us feeling powerless and helpless if we don’t have all the love and power and energy that God created us with. Alright, we’re all mixed up with each other, we’re all kind of in each other’s business. And the thing is, like Jesus said, mind your own garden. Uh plow here, you know, pull your weeds here. Stop worrying about other gardens, you know, that’s their purview. Work on your own, focus on your own, heal your own. All right. I think of you when to use the the garden metaphor, I think of self-judgments like weeds, all right? You gotta pluck them out and examine them, all right? And I think of denial as drought because there’s literally nothing there. You’ve pushed all things away, and that’s things wither and die in a drought, all right? And the drought is you won’t let God’s unconditional love flow in that denied part of you. So, hey, and of course, there’s fear. I mean, I can’t remember any client or myself not gearing up for a Sunon story healing meditation without butterflies and nervousness. I mean, one client actually just reached out, you know, she had her had her eyes closed and she was on the massage table, and she was just she reached out and grabbed my hand. She was so scared. All right, and I let her do that. That was fun. She needed it. All right. So all of this is by way of saying that you know, with God all things are possible. All right, and that’s exactly what I am living through. I am going, I have ended a huge denial that goes back to my beginning as a created soul. Because I believe in the ultimate and energy recycling. All right. I don’t believe that we just live one physical lifetime. I believe we live multiple physical lifetimes because we gain experiences and knowledge and hopefully wisdom with the lifetimes. But we always go back to source because that is where we came from. We came from God, we go back to God, and God has never lost to us or gone from us, no matter how bad our physical circumstances seem. But if we want to reach out and want to feel God’s presence, then first we examine our own feelings and the limitations that we have on them in order to open up and get that. And yes, I feel God’s presence far more than I ever did early in my lifetime. All right, far more. It’s like going back to 1985. A dear friend from college kept writing letters. Her her father was dying of cancer. She kept writing me letters. Please write to him, please write to him. Because I’d met him and I babysit his kids when he went off to Europe and all that kind of stuff. I had no idea what to say. No idea. And it kind of kick-started me into saying, I want to know what happens when we die. All right. I need to know that. And that, you know, less than a year later, Janna came into my life. All right.
So when you really call out and are ready, and he knows you’re ready because he he’s within you. He knows when you really are ready and you’ve you’re open to receive the wisdom and the guidance that he’s ready to provide. When we seek him with all our heart, we always find him. As I garden, as you are speaking, the more, the more he reveals. I find it so comforting, actually. Comforting and how he has moved me through my life and the different stages. And I I do appreciate all the information that you’ve shared already. It’s very profound. Because if you read the essence of who God is, and you read it in his word a lot, love me like you love yourself. Love me first and love others as you love yourself. And so, what is he telling all of us in that statement? Self-love. You’ve got to understand love, you’ve got to understand how to love yourself. And that means that self-judgment piece cannot, it’s in complete disalignment to the person he created all of us to be, is from that space of love. Then we can we can then move through life from that space. That is our center. He is our center, and love is our center in all aspects, in all relationships, in all connections. Love is is the starting point. That’s how he was when he was here on earth. That’s how he modeled for the rest of us. Yeah, we forget that because we we get caught up, and it is rather, rather noisy outside. That’s why gardening is such an important way of looking at life, a way of operating from the garden space is that it’s not noisy out there. It’s actually quite peaceful and serene. It is what you make of it too. If you sit exactly in your circumstances, that’s your choice. You have that choice. However, if you really are seeking the peace, love, joy, all these things that are fruit of the spirit, as he calls them in his word, there’s work to be done. There are weeds that we need to pull and examine. And there’s things that happened to us when we were little that are not our fault, but it is our responsibility to take a look at it because now it’s impacting not just ourselves, but others in our sphere of influence. Our children, our spouses, the people we work with, the people that we encounter friendships with, all that matters. It matters. And I do agree with a lot of what you’ve talked about. And I’m really curious if anyone wanted to work with you, Candace Lynn, how how do we find you? Um, how do we work? Where are you? Where do you heal from? And I I would really want to work with you personally myself.
So do you’re on the West Coast.
Okay.
I spent 40 34 years in Texas, and now I’m back in California, which is my native state. And you can contact me at candyslintalmage.com. That’s my website. There’s a way to get hold of me. Any any message that you send me will through the website will come straight to me. And I’m really glad that you, um, Sylvia, mentioned the uh word love thy neighbor as thyself. Again, we tend to focus outward on I’m I’m I’m of this belief, so I am called to love my neighbor. Yes, that’s part of it. But if you have not loved yourself first, what you’re likely to give your neighbor is need, not love. Alright? You you give from an empty cup and God said fill your cup of love and then share the excess with your neighbors, all right? And that way everybody feels rich. And also, it is not more spiritual or whatever to to give than it is to receive. Alright? If you want to be a giver, somebody has to be a receiver, all right? And if you say it’s more, you know, noble to give than receive, you’ve put the receiver in a one-down position. All right. Sometimes you’ll be the giver, sometimes you’ll be the receiver. Alright? It is a balancing of the energy and the love. And when people are just as happy to receive as they are to give, all right, realizing that the exchange is about sending and receiving love. All right. Think of it in that way. All right. People, oh, is this charity? And I don’t take charity. Sometimes you need a little charity. Begins around you think home is home is right here in your garden, your inner garden, your inner community. Charity begins there. Be charitable to yourself, and then you’ll find it very easy and natural to be charitable to your neighbor. All right.
Love it. Candace Lynn, thank you so much for joining us on release out review because I’ve learned so much from you today, and it’s actually given me even more ideas for my ground needs. And grudging, not just inwardly, but just even in my own serenity space where I constantly connect with God Himself and with myself, with all my identities.
I have a confession. I’m not the only person who talks to her plants. All right. I’ve reached a certain age where everybody seems to think that what a little old lady like me needs is another orchid. Okay. So I have four orchids. I talk to them all the time. So they’re not much to bring back, but they like it.
The ones the ones I speak to all the time are my roses in the front. And I take very good care of them and I give them a lot of TLC, but I also talk to them in soft voice, you know, and I caress them, and my daughter looks at me like, oh my gosh, I think my mom has lost it. And I realize she’s also 11, so that’s probably gonna look a little odd, but I kind of view the same way as talking to myself. And it took me years, Candace Lynn, to like speak to myself in a gentle and loving way. And and when I started to do it, I really understood love. Like I understood it unconditionally, the unconditional love that we are meant, we’re truly meant to give, not just to ourselves but to others, uh, which is the same love that he gave to us when he died on the cross. And such a poignant interview to give just a day after. Um Easter Sunday morning, which is Resurrection Day for the Christians, and so symbolic. So I really appreciate your time and presence on the show today. And to the listeners, you know how I always sign off to remember Matthew 5 14 to be the light. Be the light like Canvas Land was light. No matter what happens to us in our life, and we are not. God never promised a carefree life with no trials and tribulations. We all go through trials and tribulations. We all go through it. And we all have choices. We can look inward and look at everything. We can choose to stay there if we want. But I know that if you’re listening to this podcast, you don’t want to stay exactly where you’re at. You want to examine those weights. You want to examine the root cause of why you can’t give love or receive love for yourself or for others. So I ask you to be courageous. Step into take that confidence that God has gifted you because he gives it to us. He does not give us a spirit of timidness. He gives us a spirit of confidence, of power, of love, and self-discipline. We all have it within us. All of us have this power within us. We all have this light. We can step into it confidently. He’s got you. He’s never left you. He didn’t live Candace Lynn. He did not leave me. And believe me, we’ve traveled through some dark chapters.
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Separately. Not together, but separately, yes. And he has been with us every step of the way. Have a wonderful and blessed rest of your week. Love y’all. Bye now.
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