…to be a bridge.
You can be this through your eyes…Tell us what you see.
You can be this with your hands…Show us where the beauty is.
And you can be this by your words…Paint us a new world.
Help us get to the other side.
The side of possibility.
The side of wonder.
This side of Love.
There’s about 7.5 billion of us.
What if we all knew we were meant to be a bridge?
Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Carry On, Warrior and her latest memoir, Love Warrior, which released September 6th. Glennon is also the founder of Momastery, an online community reaching millions of people each week. She is the creator and president of Together Rising—a non-profit organization that has raised over four million dollars for families around the world through its Love Flash Mobs, which have revolutionized online giving.
Glennon is a sought-after public speaker and her work has been featured on the TODAY Show, The Talk, OWN, and NPR and in The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Glamour, Family Circle, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, and in other television and print outlets.
Glennon currently lives in Florida with her family and it was such a joy for her to join us in this episode of Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss coming to know crisis as an invitation to beauty and how we can confront the pain in our lives to claim the love and the whimsy of our days.
Oh and don’t forget…Glennon joins Oprah this weekend on SuperSoul Sunday! Don’t miss this new episode of SuperSoul Sunday on Sunday, September 11, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Lastly, please remember to share this episode with those you love and those you lead. You can find this episode and all others in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.
Godspeed in your music making…
Ashton
Find your voice.
Contribute.
Take pleasure.
Repeat.
The games of cynicism, pessimism, guilt, and shame are some of the most popular games we are sold. And for those who choose to play them, they’re the only game in town. Finger pointing is the only cost to play. And who can’t afford that?
But they don’t have to be your games.
Actually, you can leave the world of games altogether and enter into the beautiful realm of experience.
And this experience will give you the opportunity to risk being seen.
The risk is being seen as your True Name. The Name you came here with and the Name you’ll leave with.
Love.
Now you will always have new windows to look into and out of, a variety of lenses to observe with, and a kaleidoscope of meaning to breathe the world in and out with.
Lean into love.
Scoop it up with all of your being.
Swim with it.
Soak it in.
And then offer it back as gift.
Only in this risk will you step into what you were originally whispered to be.
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