A short conversational transcript from a YouTube interview with Betsy Guerra about faith-based coaching and spiritual practices. Key points: people can serve others by using the tools gained from their own past ("serve the person you once were"); coaching empowers people to accept and reframe their stories for service to others and to glorify God; stillness (silence/solitude) is emphasized as the space where divine wisdom and God’s thoughts can be received — illustrated by a practical example of baking sourdough and an Isaiah quote about God’s ways and thoughts being higher than ours.
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One of the things that you talk about in the faith based coaching academy is that you're equipped to help the person that you once were.
You're most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were.
And that resonated with me in a huge way because it validated my story again, you know, and so when you're sitting with a couple and you've gone through things that couples go through or marriages go through, now you can utilize the, those tools that you gave me, and I can utilize them to help somebody else, which is what I think life is all about. I think that that's what God intends for all of us.
We are all coaches.
Exactly. And that's what you share with us in the faith based coaching category. So almost coaching is almost like empowering somebody to accept their story and then use it for the good of others, to use it to serve others. Which is ultimately what my, what I feel like my purpose is, is like use my gifts to serve others and, and make an impact in the world, not for me, but for God.
So where are you at right now? Well, before we go there, actually, I want to, I want to emphasize something that you said. You felt called to be still. And stillness is a beautiful place where we get to connect in a special way with God because we're not busy like with our agenda. When you, when you, when you're still, you're letting go of your human thoughts to tap into your divine wisdom. So it's almost like you, you make room for the Holy Spirit to manifest himself in the form of wisdom and clarity. So being still is not about not doing anything. Being still is a. About proactively creating the space to connect, to connect with that divine wisdom. And for you, it looked like baking sourdough bread. Oh my gosh, my mouth waters just thinking about it. And it allowed you to just take care of that dough and the mother, just feed it and do all these things. And we get to take care of ourselves and water ourselves and feed ourselves and. And in that stillness, there's a scripture I love, and it's an Isaiah, and it says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, declares the Lord, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my thoughts and my ways above yours. And I love that scripture because not only because, okay, God's plan is different than ours, but rather because I believe wholeheartedly that when you be still, when you spend time in silence, solitude and stillness, your thoughts become like one with God. God's thoughts become yours because you're no longer trying to control.
You're able to. To filter out your thoughts and let his come in.
The idea of stillness is almost like to gain clarity and be centered so that you may act in a guided way, so that you may act with intention and obey. And I must say, I'm probably gonna say this in many podcasts, but because I learned it recently and I love it, I learned that everything we do, everything you do to be the hands and feet of God on earth is based on gifts God's given you. So it's almost like you're returning that gift. You're glorifying him by using it in the service of others. But there's one gift that God cannot give us and that we get to give him, and that's the gift of obedience. The gift God gave us is free will. The gift we get to glorify him with is obedience, which looks like living the dreams God dreams for us, which are always going to be better than our own.
