#21 Vulnerability, Prayer, and Parenting: A Conversation with Pam Fields
Oct 07, 2023
Crystal Loyd
Welcome to a heartwarming and down-to-earth episode where we meet Pam Fields, an extraordinary woman who has walked the path of faith and parenting with incredible strength and unwavering belief. With nine children, & GaGa to 4 grandchildren Pam's journey is nothing short of remarkable, and she shares her story of finding peace and surrendering to God's will.
Pam takes us back to her childhood, telling us about her past and how she navigated through distorted values. Her experiences shaped her approach to raising her children, and she opens up about the vulnerability and prayer that play a crucial role in reaching out to kids who might have lost their way.
One of the most touching moments is when Pam recounts her experience with her prodigal child and how it influenced her parenting of her younger children. It's a reminder that prayers can be a powerful presence in our children's lives, sometimes even stronger than our physical presence. Learning to let God fight their battles has been an important outlet for her children to find their path.
Throughout the episode, we explore the concept of trusting God with our children's struggles, which can be a challenging journey for any parent.
Pam's wisdom shines through as she shares how she learned to trust God's plan over her need for control, offering a fresh perspective on mentorship and growth that goes beyond mere chronological timelines.
This podcast will leave you with a sense of wisdom, strength, and peace, as Pam's experiences resonate with the joys and challenges of your own parenting journey.
And don't just listen—run on over and join the No More Running email list info@crystalloyd.com and share your thoughts with a podcast review!
Welcome to a heartwarming and down-to-earth episode where we meet Pam Fields, an extraordinary woman who has walked the path of faith and parenting with incredible strength and unwavering belief. With nine children, & GaGa to 4 grandchildren Pam's journey is nothing short of remarkable, and she shares her story of finding peace and surrendering to God's will.
Pam takes us back to her childhood, telling us about her past and how she navigated through distorted values. Her experiences shaped her approach to raising her children, and she opens up about the vulnerability and prayer that play a crucial role in reaching out to kids who might have lost their way.
One of the most touching moments is when Pam recounts her experience with her prodigal child and how it influenced her parenting of her younger children. It's a reminder that prayers can be a powerful presence in our children's lives, sometimes even stronger than our physical presence. Learning to let God fight their battles has been an important outlet for her children to find their path.
Throughout the episode, we explore the concept of trusting God with our children's struggles, which can be a challenging journey for any parent.
Pam's wisdom shines through as she shares how she learned to trust God's plan over her need for control, offering a fresh perspective on mentorship and growth that goes beyond mere chronological timelines.
This podcast will leave you with a sense of wisdom, strength, and peace, as Pam's experiences resonate with the joys and challenges of your own parenting journey.
And don't just listen—run on over and join the No More Running email list info@crystalloyd.com and share your thoughts with a podcast review!
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Speaker 1:
Hello, I'm your host, crystal Lloyd, and I've been known to run and still find myself running from the things in this life. Running from God, His calling, his purpose for my life. Running from change that's within my control, that needs to be made, or any type of change. Running from hard or even good or even just simple little things in this life. And God said to me Crystal, if you will stop running and surrender, there are things that we can accomplish together. Maybe you find yourself running as I have. I want you to know that you're not alone. Let's go from running to no more running together.
Speaker 1:
Let's get started with prayer, holy Spirit, we invite you to be a part of the podcast, the lessons, the life coaching and the sharing of our stories. Let it be known today that you are God. God, help us to go from running in this life, from whatever it may be that we're running from, from running to no more running. In Jesus' name, welcome, welcome, pam Fields. I'm so excited If you've been following me for any length of time when I have guest podcast day. It is the most exciting for me. I'm just like a little kid in a candy store, yay, so excited.
Speaker 1:
And today we have Pam Fields, and she is a busy, busy woman. She is a wife first and foremost, and then she is a mother of nine and she manages a Facebook group which is called. Tell me what that's called, pam. It's Tending Fields Moms Group. Tending Fields Moms Group, okay, so, which I am a part of, and I love that group. Oh, my goodness, all the questions and all the answers and then just the support that we give to each other. I love it. And then you also can find you on Instagram and work, and you find you on Instagram as well, pam, that's just Tending Fields, tending Fields. Okay, I'm so excited, but you are, I mean, just so busy. You are podcasting as well, and that is what is your podcast called.
Speaker 2:
The Mom Next Door Stories of Faith and I was so excited to get to meet you, to be a guest on there before.
Speaker 1:
Yes and gosh, I loved. It was my very first podcast ever and I was so nervous and I had such a good time. And then meeting here in East Tennessee, which you live here now in East Tennessee, and we met up at Cracker Barrel and for hours and hours we just sit and talk to each other for a good time.
Speaker 1:
I can't wait till we get to get together again as well. But I tell you, I don't know if you have noticed or not, but it is springtime in Tennessee and I love spring. Everything is blooming, but spring does not love me. So I have this wonderful voice and throat and nasal congestion. I'm so glad we're meeting over Zoom instead of in person. But they say it's not contagious, but it's just springtime in East Tennessee. But again, like I said, you are such a busy, busy woman and just involved in so much and speaking as well. So you just recently had a speaking engagement at a mom's. It was a luncheon, wasn't it Kind of like a luncheon?
Speaker 2:
Well, it's kind of a breakfast thing. It was called mops, so mothers are preschoolers and so, yeah, I got to be their speaker there and that was really fun. I'm testing the waters, putting my toes in very slowly in the speaking world, yeah.
Speaker 1:
I got to listen in on it and I thought you had great advice for the moms and I think you did a good job, so excited about your speaking career and, of course, your podcast and your Facebook group and all that you do. I want to know and I want to let our listeners know who was paying before all of this. How did you grow up? Did you grow up in a Christian home? And just tell us a little bit about your life before a wife, before nine kids, before podcasting, before Facebook group, before speaking all of that? So let's go way back, maybe, and let's talk about that today.
Speaker 2:
It always starts somewhere right, and I think we meet people and we tend to see where they are right now and then we compare that to ourselves and where we came from and we think, wow, we've missed a whole part of the story. When we just look at them now and it's something where I really haven't talked about my past I've enjoyed people getting to know me in the now. It's so much more safe, isn't it? Yes, it is.
Speaker 2:
It's hard to talk about it sometimes, yeah, yeah for sure. So if we jump way back, it's complicated as it is with so many people's stories. But I did grow up in a home that had a bit of a faith element but was very contrived, very distorted. I'm trying to think of how to put this concisely. My dad was actually an ordained minister, but he didn't have a belief that the whole Bible was true and he no-transcript. I think he was very conflicted in himself. I think he wanted to serve God, but he wanted to do it in his own strength, in his own power and with no accountability. And so I grew up in a home where let's see, I'll have to think about how I'm going to say this. So our family time, our family, our family time together. It included things like pornography, a Ouija board, alcohol and sexual abuse as well, and so those things was one part of the workings of our family. But another part of the workings of our family was that my dad was often an itinerant pastor and he would travel around and to raise money he would put my siblings and I up on stage to sing some songs about Jesus and then pass the plate and get donations for his ministry.
Speaker 2:
So I had, like I said, a little bit of a faith element to my home, in that I knew about church. I was sometimes in church, but it certainly did not align with my home and what I was learning there. So I really didn't go to church at all until I was 15 and my grandma sent me at summer camp and I really I saw there people with a relationship with God who wanted to live for him, and when I went home from that summer camp I thought that's what I want to do, that's what I want to be, I need to go to church and I need to have a relationship with God. And so at that point I started spending Saturday nights with my grandma so I could get up and go to church on Sunday morning, which I did for quite a while.
Speaker 2:
I didn't tell my parents that I was going to church or that I wanted to be there. I'm sure they assumed that if I was spending the night with grandma I was going to church, but perhaps they didn't know how much it meant to me and how much I was learning. At one point I kind of got caught forging their signatures to go on a youth group retreat and then I finally came clean and said, okay, I'm going to church, I am enjoying it. I found my people, they encouraged me and then my parents started dropping me off directly there because I was still unlicensed, you know, younger and yeah. So that's kind of a little glimpse into my childhood and how I, when I started following the Lord.
Speaker 1:
Well, it sounds like your grandmother was a woman of faith and maybe taught you some things about God, and then it sounds like you got involved in a good youth group because that was so important. And I got involved in a youth group later on in high school, and that changed my world, and so I really think youth groups are so important, you know, for young teenage girls and boys as well, and so, but have you ever found yourself, you know, running from God? Because I didn't grow up in a Christian home and you know I'm like you we talked about and they use the wedgie boards and all that, and I was scared. I mean, I was really scared of that and then now realizing why I should have been scared and it's just demonic and so something that I've always tried to teach my kids to stay away from. But is you know, I was a runner from God and, of course, didn't grow up in that Christian home. But have you found that you ever ran from the Lord?
Speaker 2:
Well, in my situation, I actually think it was opposite. I feel like I was so filled with fear and instability that when I I was always running towards the Lord, I felt like he always had his eye on me, and in retrospect, he has put people in my life who have have really helped to woo me to the Lord, and so I really don't feel like there was a time I was running from him so much as, honestly, I picture him with open arms waiting for me to run to him, much more than running away from and, and when I found him, he's embraced me completely, and that's where I found safety.
Speaker 1:
That's great, pam. I love to hear those stories and I wish like I could go back in my past and be more like you. You know that and ran towards God instead of away from God, and, and, and I know that God had placed people in my life and, like you had said, just, you know how God placed people in your life and help you draw closer to God. So I love that. I love that you ran towards God. And.
Speaker 1:
But you know, being a mother of nine, have you ever experienced one of your children, or two or three or more of your children, running from the Lord? Because you know, the podcast name is no more running, and so I have come to tell God okay, no more running, I surrender, and I'm trying to do that and remind myself every day. Hey, crystal, you told God no more running and so, you know, sometimes I find myself running again from the Lord and what he's instructed me to do and, you know, called me into or whatever. Is this something that you've experienced, having nine children? And if so, then what? What kind of advice would you give us that would help us, those runners out there, or moms that have?
Speaker 2:
runners.
Speaker 2:
I've got a couple of things where we could just hop back and forth and you and I we've talked other times and we kind of do this, we jump around and even when you were saying that, you know, here I just said I haven't run from God but I ran to him and and I do think, as far as falling in love with the Lord, I run to him.
Speaker 2:
But I haven't shared my personal story and perhaps that has been running from God and that didn't occur to me even till just now that I have not. I've been podcasting for two and a half years but I interview other people, asking them their stories and wanting to hear their stories of faith, and I have not stepped up and shared my own, my own family of origin, my own heartaches from my own childhood and my own past. And when you were saying that you know, coming to this point of submission and just surrendering our stories to the Lord, you know that has been in the last year where I've finally just gone. Okay, Lord, I see it. You know I'm going to surrender that part of me sharing my story to you and do with it as you will, and so I do want to just kind of clarify that, because I realized as we're talking that that wow, oh yeah, that is a way.
Speaker 1:
So, anyway, about-. So it's my perfect time right now on the no More Running podcast, you know, to share your story, to have the time, and so you just take it away, pam.
Speaker 2:
So, but onto the prodigal situation I do. I have one out of nine so far that is in a prodigal situation. Now my youngest is 10, so I still have. You know. I mean it's interesting as they grow up, when they're all under our roofs, they are making choices underneath our eye, and so a lot of times I don't think we have children move into that prodigal space, of course, until they're adults and they're living on their own and they're in that situation where they are deciding do I want to take the faith of my parents and make that my own or not? And so statistics I can't remember what the statistics are. They're pretty high, even in the Christian church, as to how many will take on the faith of their parents. And so, of course, statistically speaking, with nine, I would have at least one, possibly more.
Speaker 2:
They're like I said, some of them are still young, but I don't know that my approach would be any different in raising my younger children. I want to teach and breathe in to them the word of God. Take them to church, teach them to memorize scripture. Maybe I could do a little better job being vulnerable and sharing some of my own struggles, which I was a little more guarded at. When I was raising my older children, With that shell to protect my children, I probably wasn't real vulnerable to share my life, and now in retrospect I see the importance of that. If my kids only see a mom who's got it all together and is doing well, then they don't see where I've needed Jesus through my life, and so I do think that's a little bit of a different approach that I've been able to come from now, and I think part of that vulnerability is having a child who is a prodigal, because the younger children in my home see that, they see that broken relationship and they see my sorrow and my heart and so there's not really a way to protect my younger children from that.
Speaker 2:
They're just gonna know that that's part of the story, that's part of the story for me and it's part of that child story, that adult child story, and so I feel like, as much as I do not want that child to be going through this trial, I want them to surrender completely to the Lord again where they once were in their younger years and even high school and early college years.
Speaker 2:
I know that the Lord is working out their story and I know that their story of faith will be built upon what's going on right now. So, you know, my biggest pointer in and my biggest encouragement is to be praying for that child now, and I'm praying for the blinders to come off and the Lord to continue speaking through his word, through the things that were learned and memorized within our home. And then also, you know, because this one is outside of my direct interaction, my direct deposit, and maybe that's by God's divine plan I just pray that other people will make deposits, will come around and encourage, leave just deposits for faith along the road so that when that child encounters situations, is involved with other people. It would be just little places along the road that remind them of what they had and remind them of who the Lord is and what difference he can make in their little life, if that makes sense?
Speaker 1:
Yes, no, totally makes sense. And you know, for me we had a protocol as well and it was hard, I think. I cried almost every night, every night when she wasn't at home, and I just prayed, and prayed, and prayed, and I would pray for people that God will place Godly people in her life to speak truth and help her to accept that truth, because she wasn't accepting it from me, she wasn't listening to anything I said because mom, you know, mom, but so I prayed for just God would just place those people in her life and then she would call you know, throughout the night it would be midnight, it would be one or two o'clock in the morning or whatever, but I always was available to her. And now that she's come back, you know, and things that I prayed for her, I see that they came to life, you know, and the Lord brought her back.
Speaker 2:
And.
Speaker 1:
I'm so thankful that I didn't give up praying for her. I didn't give up just encouraging her and just listening to her. I was available, like I said. I mean, she would call way up in the night and I would listen, but when we were together it was like we were butting heads, but over the phone we seemed that we could communicate better. I really just listened to her and always let her know that she could always come back home Whenever she. Of course, I begged her please come back home, please come back home, but until I think she was ready. And then there's things that I prayed for her as well, like Lord, give her a sense of purpose in her life, and things like that. And then, of course, things happen, and now I was like Lord. I don't know if I meant that way. She got pregnant when she was 19 years old and now we have our first grandson and he is three years old, and now to see her as a mom.
Speaker 1:
Let's take a quick break. I'm excited to tell you that I'm offering life coaching. If you're interested in coaching with me or want to learn more, run on over to my website, crystalloydcom that's Crystal with a C and Lloyd with one L and sign up for a free 20 minute coaching session with me. Also, don't forget to join my email list. You can email me info at crystaloydcom. Can't wait to help you to go from running to no more running. And I was praying for that sense of purpose. And when she got pregnant and I was like wait a minute.
Speaker 1:
Lord that's not what I was praying, and the Lord knew what she needed in her life and she is a good mommy and she is a lactation consultant and she's fed five babies breastfeeding, and so it's just. It's so wonderful and I know, I just want to encourage and I know you as well, pam, want to encourage those moms that are still going through times of where they're babies.
Speaker 1:
There still are babies, no matter how old they are, are running from the Lord, so in running from just us as well, just having a relationship with us, and so I just want to encourage them to keep praying as well.
Speaker 2:
Well, listening is so important. You brought that up and I think sometimes we think we need to take control of things. We've been doing it for their whole lives. We've made sure that all of the things that revolve around our children are things that impact them well and impart good things to their lives, and we've been so much in control. It's really hard to step back and not be in that position. But really that listening ear, just being there to listen, is so important and it makes me think of the verse I'm thinking. It's in Acts. It's Acts 14, 14. Be still, the Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still, and just being there to listen and pray for them really creates an outlet and allows that the working out of it to be the Lord's fight and His leading, and not being controlled from me. I think that's a huge piece of advice that you gave. There is to just be available to listen.
Speaker 1:
Yes, and we forget because I would forget this that we are in a spiritual battle and our children are in a spiritual battle. And I prayed scripture over my daughter. I prayed, you know, I mean not like I didn't lay hands on her and pray scripture, but every waking moment I would pray scripture over her and I know that when she would call in the middle of the night, I would talk to her and I would go, I would get off the phone and my husband was awake and he never was like come on, it's late, get off the phone. He always was like what'd she say? How's she doing? And then at that moment is when we would pray for her. We would stop, we would pray and then we would go back to sleep and then hope to see her the next day or hope to hear from her the next day, or continue to try to keep that line of communication open with her, but just remembering that we and they, our children, are in a spiritual battle. So we need to pray scripture over them as well.
Speaker 1:
And you know, as they get older we have to languish that control. You know, let go of that control and become more of a life coach to them instead of a parent of a small child or, you know, teenager or whatever we have to. You know they talk to us. We have to give them a vice and then it's their choice whether what they do with that.
Speaker 2:
I think some people might wonder you know how could you do that, crystal? How could you wake up, talk to your daughter and then go back to sleep? You know like I'd be up all night tossing and turning, fretting about it. But that says something about your faith and trust in the Lord and his sovereignty, that you can just hand it over to the Lord to say. You know what this does bother me. It hurts my heart. I've fought through this but in the end I'm going to trust God with my child and I'm going to give it to him, surrender my child to him, and then I'm going to go to sleep because I know that I can trust.
Speaker 1:
Well, and I will tell you, there was many, many knots, and even afterwards I would cry and I would cry and cry and I would even ask the Lord and I don't know if it's for you, like this, but I would ask the Lord, like, when will there be peace, lord, between me and and me and my mom?
Speaker 1:
We struggled and we don't have the best relationship, so I didn't want that for me and my daughter, and so, um, so we, we, we just, um, I just continued, like I said open, uh, left that line of communication open and I cried a lot and asked the Lord, when will there be peace, you know, with our relationship, and when will there be peace in this battle? Because you know it was a battle, and so, and then we would pray, and then we would go back to sleep and then, of course, get up and I would be exhausted, um, you know, and go to work. But I was so glad just to hear that she's okay, she's safe, you know, and just continue to pray. Um, always, always, you know, pray and a lot. My prayers was give her a sense of purpose, because I felt like she was just scattered, every words and any words, and and and wasn't, you know, living with a purpose. Okay, yeah, but it's so funny, we're both podcasters and so we're like kind of interviewing both of each each other.
Speaker 2:
Well, um, if you don't mind, I will tell you. When I speak to moms, I like to speak on prayer sometimes, and when I do, I often end it with this paragraph from a book that I read, and it's a book called legacy of prayer by Jennifer Kennedy Dean, and she says prayer has no limits, no time limits, no geographical limits. Just as surely as we can provide for our children's present and daily needs through prayer, we can also reach into their futures, laying a foundation of blessings for our children, our grandchildren and all of our descendants. This is, and then this next sentence is the one that really, like, it gets me it. I'm like, oh, my goodness, prayer is so effective that when our children are away from us, we can continue to parent them through our prayers. Our prayers are even more powerful than our presence.
Speaker 1:
Oh, that is good. Wow, say that again. Say that one time because that is so good, because we think we have to be involved in everything. And if we're not involved, then god's not involved. And I love that. Oh, my goodness, say that again, pam.
Speaker 2:
Okay, our prayers are more powerful even than our presence. It does it removes the um, it removes again that responsibility. You know I can pray and it's more effective In our, our presence.
Speaker 1:
Oh, I love that because you know god. God is there, god is, you know, he's all present, everywhere we cannot be. I love that. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, oh, you're good.
Speaker 2:
So, you know, we've recently moved to Tennessee from the west coast and this child, who's struggling, maybe doesn't know that they're struggling, but uh, yeah, but I know they're struggling and and they're still there on the west coast.
Speaker 2:
And so, you know, in some ways I have thought, oh, here we moved at such a terrible time. You know we should be there to be able to, to influence, and if we were there, we could be still doing family meals and we could still be, you know, having all the holidays together, and we wouldn't lose touch with this child. And then, in a way, I feel like god's saying no, we needed this separation and we needed this distance. Because you messed it up, like the lord saying you know, I needed to, to put you apart, because I was ready to do a work In that life and in order to accomplish that and my purpose, we needed to, to have a distance. And so that uh sentence really means a lot to me, because I think that is more powerful. It's more powerful than my presence, you know, and so that just encourages my heart a lot.
Speaker 1:
Yes, well, and I'll tell you something that my both of my children tell me, even to this day, and they've always told me that you're a helicopter mom. But it was because of my past and what I went through, and so I was trying to protect them, and so I had to tell god, okay, god, yes, okay, I admit, I'm a helicopter mom and I don't know how to be Anything else. Um, because I want to protect them, I want to, you know, protect him from what I went through, or protect him from getting hurt.
Speaker 1:
So I'm like, okay, god, I'm gonna back off, they're yours and then and then, just you know, let seeing god hover over them, and I toe god. I said god now, now I'm leaving it to you to hover over them, and so I'm. God hover over them and and seeing him Correct their mistakes, and I'm like, oh Okay, god, you get all over, you know, and and and it's just like I was too involved, just too involved, and the Lord's even told me, like crystal, if you would back off a little, I can get to them, but you, you won't even let me work here, and so.
Speaker 1:
I really had to repent and say, okay, god there, I know that you gave them to me, but they're ultimately yours, lord, and so I had to to you know back off, let god work some. And I mean, it's hard seeing them going through the some of the things that I wish they wouldn't go through. But again, you know, I'm, I'm the life coach now, I'm not the, you know, the small parent child. I have to back off, I have to let god work.
Speaker 2:
So I love that picture of the lord hovering over them. Um it, it makes me think of that verse that talks about he will gather them under his feathers, under his opinions, you know, they'll find refuge, and and that covering, um it's. It's beautiful to think of the lord hovering over, keeping a watchful eye on our children. No better place to be. He will do it much better than I will, right that's right and he does.
Speaker 1:
And I'm like when things happen and I'm like, oh wow, I could see, god, why you want me to back off. You wanted me to quit hovering so that you can get to them, and I've even you know, god was like you have such an umbrella over them that I can't even get to them and so I just Lord's like, okay, you know, back off. And I love it, I love it, and sometimes I'm well, god.
Speaker 1:
I mean, is that a little too much? But god's like, uh, I know what I'm doing here, I'm, I'm he, he is the father, he is our father and he knows what's best for us and he knows that for our children as well. We just have to, we just have to trust, trust him Amen.
Speaker 1:
And you know, just pray for them in this spiritual battle. Yeah, yeah, amen. So, but anyways, as we come to an end here I hope that I've not taken over the whole podcast, but I mean, I do want to give you an opportunity if there's something that you want to share more and anymore, you know, if there's verses that you want to share with moms that is close and dear to your heart, and maybe some verses that you would share for their prodigal child, or, you know, just any kind of life coach advice that you can give them within this last few minutes.
Speaker 2:
Well, thank you for that opportunity. I'm not sure how well I do on my feet so quick like that, but I'll tell you. You know, the thing that encourages my heart is hearing the stories from other moms, for sure, and I think that God has given us community because he knows that we need it. And so I would encourage women to seek out community where they can be supported and where we can direct one another to the promises of Scripture and to hearing victory on the other side. You know, you just shared your story of victory on the other side with your daughter and with my child. I'm still in the battle, you know, and so it gives me hope and encourages me when I hear those stories of victory. And so, you know, if you find yourself there and at a point of struggling, seek out others. And you know, I think I love mentoring.
Speaker 2:
And one thing about mentoring is we think sometimes that it's chronological, that the only person to mentor me is somebody older, or I can only mentor someone who's younger.
Speaker 2:
But you know, we have different life experiences and we have gone through different things.
Speaker 2:
So I would just encourage to not simply look up and down the chronological timeline, but to look to your sides, who else is in a journey and who else has been through the journey and be vulnerable.
Speaker 2:
I'm finding over the last six months that when I do share a little bit of my story and a little bit of my struggle, that I all of a sudden have a lot of people that have walked that same road or are in that same journey and had I not stepped forward in that moment of vulnerability to share, I wouldn't have had people to walk with me, to walk beside me and give me strength through that. You know, we weren't made to stand on our own and the Lord will direct us to those people and that community that we need. But we do need to be willing to share. So ask the Lord, who should I talk to? And then, as he gives you opportunity, just be brave to step into it and trust him In our story, just like we're trusting him in our children's story. Trust him in your story to do a good work here and bring you that that peace and understanding and knowing more of who he is and his sovereignty.
Speaker 1:
Amen, I like that, pam. That is awesome, and I do encourage others to join your mom group on Facebook and join that community, because here I'm not sure that I have a big community, but then I feel like I have that community within that Facebook group so I feel like I'm not alone and then also I can share my story and help other women as well. So I love that, I love that. And tell us one more time real quick, like where we can find you again. Facebook, instagram, podcast, all of that, right?
Speaker 2:
So I do have an Instagram, tending Fields. The website is TendingFieldsnet. And then that mom group. I do love it too, and I love it because there's young moms, there's gals that are just pregnant with their first baby, and then there's grandmas who have raised their children and they are there for the purpose of giving back and helping to shepherd younger women. But there's so much of this. We're the same age and we have different struggles. Let's come along and encourage one another. So I love that, and that is just called Tending Fields Moms Group. And yeah, then my podcast is called the Mom Next Door Stories of Faith. So, yeah, we'd love for you to join us there. That'd be great.
Speaker 1:
Well, thank you for sharing a tad bit of your story, and then your story with your protocol as well, what I consider a runner, and because I was one and then I had a runner as well. But when you are ready to share even more of your story, you're always welcome here on no More Running. But as we go out, would you lead us in a part of prayer?
Speaker 2:
Sure, Lord, I do thank you for this connection and I thank you for this time we have here. And, lord, I trust that the scripture that you brought forth and the words of encouragement would just give friends here that are listening just a word to step in, to bravely share, to be vulnerable and to trust you for the story of their children, to trust you for the story of their own lives. So, lord, I thank you for the work Crystal's doing to share stories and the victory that you've given her in her life and her daughter's life, and we just give you the glory for this time and thank you for it In Jesus' name. Amen, thank you.
Speaker 1:
Pam Fields, host of Mom Next Door Stories of Faith podcast, and tendingfieldnet is where you can reach out to Pam. Thank you so much, pam, for just sharing with no More Running podcast listeners and until next time, friends. Hey, don't forget you can sign up for the no More Running email list at info at crystalloycom and make sure to like, share and follow. We would love for you to leave a review for the podcast. This helps us reach even more women who might find themselves running as well. God Run.