SermoNetties

Nettie interviews Millie on her Sunday Podcast, SermoNettie’s.  Who is Millie?  Well, who is Nettie.? Nettie and Millie belong to a comedy troupe called the SonnySide Gang and lead weekend Joy Retreats for women.  Weekends of laughter, music, discernment, meditation, relaxation and Simply Joy.  So, be prepared for a "not-quite-the-same-podcast as usual." Nettie and Millie's discussion revolves around the pros and cons of belonging to a long established lady’s church society group, the St. Pious United Daughters of the Saints. If you want to see more of  Nettie's comedy videos, go to her website: www.momentswithnettie.com

It's Nettie's Birthday Week and is reflecting on embarking on the last trip around the sun in her 60's.  Many things goes through one/s heart and mind as we ponder the things we can and cannot control as we age.  Listen in to find out how important it is to be the light to yourself as you make choices in your future.

Celebrating love on Valentine's Day isn't just about romantic love but honoring love for one another and choosing to rise up every morning with love in our hearts, our souls and our minds. This is how we become First Responders in Love.

Nettie learns wonderful lessons from having her toddler grandchildren around for 10 days.  Lighten up, let go and don't be stuck in your ways.  Learning to be spontaneous can save the day!

As First Responders in Love, our response can be teaching others how to find Joy in the challenges.  Share joy by giving simple gifts of love.

Nettie shares stories of her journeys inspired by the Holy Bread crumbs she receives when she focuses and listens for directions from the Holy and how she has received confirmation of her decisions.

Nettie finds herself in  discernment during our nations crisis and wonders how our children are dealing with all the the changes they are working through and how they may be dealing with the fear.  She calls us into action, asking us to remember the children and discern for ourselves how we might help right now.

Epiphany 2021 - Nettie calls all First Responders in Love to claim the Epiphany of Love and the call to action to be healers of light in a time of crisis in our Nation. It is not an accident that Epiphany and our nation's sad moment converged on The Day of the Three Kings - Epiphany! You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light!

It's a New Year!  What do we do about last year?  What do we leave behind -- what do we take forward?  Nettie shares some pearls of wisdom to tuck away on the new journey in 2021.

Appreciating the gentle peace of a simple Christmas this year, Nettie recognizes the pain that makes itself known in the midst of the season.  Nettie proclaims the Joy of being present in the presence -- the presence of Hope.

Nettie, recovering from cornea transplant surgery, reflects on Covid 19, Christmas and the opportunity it brings for us to embrace the peace of Christmas

This is the 3rd week of Advent - the Candle of Joy is lit.  Time to be Joyful!!  Are you kidding me?  It's going to be a Covid Christmas!  How can we be joyful when we won't be with our loved ones.  Nettie's here to help you through this time from a perspective of Joy.

Nettie continues her reflection on Advent and the lighting of the Love candle. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light!

Today is the first day of Advent, a time of preparing for the holy celebration of Christmas.  Our preparations will be oh, so different this year because of the Covid-19 lock downs, but is that a bad things? Maybe not.  Find out how and why Nettie thinks this could be a simpler, more peaceful holiday season. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light! Don’t Be Crappy, Be Happy!

Thanksgiving is the foundation of the Holiday season.  But this year it's all different.  For most of us, we will be celebrating the holiday alone at home and reaching out virtually to offer good tidings to those who would normally be sitting at our tables.  What is there to be thankful for?  Nettie shows us how to give thanks, anyway. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light! Don’t Be Crappy, Be Happy!

Inspired by an old high school friend who called himself "Flaming," Nettie speaks to the fact that we all flame in some way and how we can use the flame in our hearts to help heal others.

The election is over, but the winner is yet to be announced.  In a parking lot, on the way home from getting stitches removed from her eye, Nettie is struck with the angst of a nation divided. and, before this could be published, a winner is announced.  Knowing the winner does not discount the knowledge that we are a nation in need of healing.  Where do we start?  We are first responders in love.  We start with ourselves.

In all things be grateful.  There you will find your Joy.  Is it really that easy?  In sharing an update of her Corneal transplant, Nettie shares how finding the gift in dark times, being grateful in the midst of chaos, can bring one to a place of joy.  

Nettie Combines the words Sabbath and Sabbatical, to choose "Sabbathical" to describe the time we need to heal as she goes into surgery for a cornea transplant.

Embracing the Fruits of the Spirit and using those gifts we have received help us to be First Responders in love. Today we visit Goodness and Joy as offerings of Love.

Nettie continues her message on Truth and light and encourages you to weather the storm in our nation by living in your core truth.

Nettie views this time of darkness, physical and spiritual and time to find your center, your truth and your light.

Nettie explains and teaches how she fills herself with holy light during times of despair in order to be the light to others.

Nettie shares the two tools she uses on herself first before tending to others. and how it helps during times of crisis, trauma and confusion. Grounded in self care, strength from her God, and a call to be a First Responder in Love, Nettie  shares her discernments since she and Fred  evacuated from wildfires last week.

Nettie is nudged to record her SermoNettie early in the week during a once-in-a-century windstorm, leaving the last segment for the end of the week.  Little did she know that she would be learning the lesson she was inspired to teach. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light! Don’t Be Crappy, Be Happy!

Nettie presents the audio from an inspired video she created while on vacation in Mexico last fall of 2019.  Nettie's response to all the negative of the world, including Covid-19 is simply returning to Love Wisdom.  You can find Nettie's video blogs at www.momentswithnettie.com and on YouTube at Moments With Nettie.  You can also follow her on Twitter and Facebook and for a personal conversation, email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com

Letting go of things we cannot control is for our own good, but it is uncomfortable. Letting go, or giving it over to Love brings us both comfort and Joy, Nettie explains how we can turn fear into love by choosing to let go of those things we fear.

Nettie encourages us to choose love over fear and reminds us that throughout history, through the roughest of times, Love Always Wins!

A change of plans.  Nettie sets aside her planned podcast to share the news of a diagnosis that has helped her embrace gratitude and joy.

Nettie explains how gentle is mighty and how so many of our spiritual leaders and prophets have led from kindness, gentleness, love, to reach the hearts of all.

Nettie shares several John Lewsi Quotes and applies them to what we can do going forward.  Rest in perfect peace, John Lewis.  Well done, good and faithful servant.

In a time where there doesn't seem to be much to be joyful about, Nettie shares ways to put away old messages, heal old wounds, and find ways to be grateful in the moment.  Sharing an old wound, just recently healed, Nettie claims her joy with gladness.

We get to choose what to do with the lemons we are handed by others;  Sit around and suck on the sourness, or add a little sweetener and make lemonade.  This is just another way to re-visit, "Do What You Can, Not What You Can't," a recurring theme in Nettie's messages.  

Perseverance and Resurrection in the time of Covid?  Nettie explains this pairing as we live "Ground Hog's Day everyday.  

Nettie welcomes her first guest interview when she brings in Fred, her husband, to talk about the Fourth of July.  Is there much to be grateful for this year?  What makes this year a particularly difficult time to celebrate.  Nett and Fred lovingly look at the good that has always been and still exists in our country.

Today, Nettie proclaims she is a WEIRDO! She has come to a new understanding that God has called her, and wants that weirdo as His witness.  Finding herself all boxed in by the expectations of others and self on her journey, she needed to be convinced that God wanted her just the way He made her. God nudged her out of the box to be just who He wants her to be, A First Responder in Love and light to others in the world.

Nettie shares sweet memories about her father and just how much she appreciates all of his qualities and the evidence of the same qualities in her and her children.  Despite tough beginnings and horrific experiences during World War II, he chose to come home and live life with love and generosity, grateful for all the blessings he had.

Nettie walks through the 5 stages of grief as it applies to where we are with Covid-19 and makes some interesting insights as to where we are with our grief regarding the death of George Floyd.

Nettie recalls Fall 1965, and the painful  experience for her and her two new friends from across town.  It was the first year of desegregation and busing and the events of that time became a life-long lesson filled with grief, confusion, guilt and anger for Nettie.  It is a lesson Nettie continues to work on and encourages others to place themselves in the agonizing place our friends-of color live in everyday.

Balancing life in general is not the easiest thing, but throw in Covid-19 and we are even more challenged to meet the needs of others as well as our own.  It's time to be willing to let go of some of the good things we do and choose the best of what we can do.  It's about balance, and letting go of unreal expectations and offering ourselves a little grace.

We are not helpless nor alone during Covid - 19.  In Episode 7, Nettie talks about how to do what you can, not what you can't.

Being gentle to self during Covid-19 means more than bubble baths and meditation.  Learn how to become viral with love, hope, peace and gentleness.  Be the Light.  Be the First Responder in Love.

There is a chasm of difference between the Mother's Day celebrations of yesterday and the long distance and often truncated celebrations of our Mothers today.  We celebrate a wonderful, diverse group  of heroes, with titles that could fill a page and more.  Whomever you are celebrating today, take the time and make the effort to let them know how very much you love them.

Why would want to do a StayCation when they are already isolated?  Do you find yourself feeling antsy?  Are you responding to stay-at-home process by either doing nothing or doing too much?  Find out why Nettie chose to declare a StayCation in her home.

We all have heroes who have influenced and changed our lives. Who are those heroes and how do we honor what we have learned from them? What does it take to be a hero in someone else's life?

Nettie answers 3 questions as asked by Andy Richter on his podcast with celebrities.  Appreciating the depth of his questions, and knowing she may never be interviewed by him, she answers from a place of discernment.  Take time to answer these questions for the sake of understanding your self. These three questions get you digging deep and perhaps they can help you create a definition of your legacy for your children and grandchildren.

What's a SermoNettie?  Just little tidbits and advice to learn how to become a First Responder in Love.  Moments With Nettie www.momentswithnettie.com  A way to connect w