Happy and Holy | Blake Guichet | Episode 309

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, Blake reflects on her personal journey of faith, grappling with long-held beliefs about happiness and holiness. Raised in a church environment that emphasized suffering and purity culture, she explores how these teachings shaped her understanding that God prioritizes holiness over happiness. However, a profound realization comes when she discovers Psalm 128, which directly states that happiness is a blessing for those who fear the Lord and walk in His ways. This revelation challenges her previous beliefs and prompts a reevaluation of happiness within her faith journey, emphasizing that God's desire for his children includes happiness alongside holiness. In this episode, you’ll be able to… Understand the difference between toxic religious beliefs and biblical truths. Learn about the significance of happiness in a relationship with God, as interpreted from scriptures. Gain insights on finding happiness through following God's instructions and aligning with His will. Click here to access the Happiness & Holiness Verse Study! To hear more of Blake’s thoughts on this, check out her Instagram!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a
0:09.7	misfit media network production. I am your host and resident Crappy Christian. this about all the things most Christians are still not sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:24.0	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap
0:27.5	and for someone to just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life
0:32.0	when you've come to the right place.
0:34.2	Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come hang out with me and
0:38.8	a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.
0:42.6	Hey you guys, welcome to another solo episode of Confessions of a crappy Christian with your loyal faithful host.
0:56.5	I have been in the midst of a massive breakthrough in my relationship with God.
1:03.6	And I grew up in the church.
1:06.2	I have had a personal relationship with the Lord
1:08.0	since I was 18, and I am now at 35 uncovering some fairly toxic and damaging beliefs that I had
1:17.2	accepted as true and I'm in the process of digging out the roots that that has spread through the foundation of my life,
1:26.1	digging those out and replacing them with the truth of what the Bible actually says.
1:32.1	And when we talk about
1:34.4	deconstruction and reconstruction
1:37.1	this is what I mean I think this is actual deconstruction
1:41.4	is tearing apart what religion has told us, what man has twisted the
1:46.6	word of God to say, and replacing it with what it actually says when you find it for yourself because this is unfortunately a
1:54.4	byproduct of religion and I'm not here to stomp all over organized religion or
1:58.9	pastors or anything like that but what I am walking through right now and through conversation
2:05.3	with friends and in DMs I think a lot of us are in the midst of undoing and
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