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Having trouble feeling the joy? Nettie explains how to be proactive by wishing others Joy, even when we aren’t feeling it ourselves. Wishing Joy to others brings Joy right back to us! Maya Angelou said to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud!  Spread your JOY!

Nettie conducts a whimsical interview with her old friend Lesta, a member of the St. Pious United Daughters of the Saints (S.P.U.D.S.) of St. Pious United Methodist Church.  Lesta, a second career pastor of a small church, shares what brings her joy and how she shares her gifts. For more giggles, be sure to check out Season 1, Episode 47, where Nettie interviews Millie, another member of SPUDS and a life long friend.  

Are you leaking Joy?  What's the answer to stopping the tears and the sadness.  How does one just pick themselves up when feeling sad?  Nettie shares her own story to help you find the way of Joy.

A few years ago a letter went viral on social media.  That letter was from Einstein to his daughter and touched the hearts of many.  Nettie was deeply touched by it and immediately decided to do a podcast based on it. Nettie soon learned that Snopes does not believe it was written to his daughter but does not have proof that it wasn't written to someone else. Nettie shares it anyway –– just the thought that Love could be proven to be, by science, the most powerful force in the universe, is mind-boggling and beautiful at the same time.  It's what Nettie believes anyway, and would challenge Snopes to prove her wrong.  Be the Light!

Nettie is on a little Easter Vacay and busy playing with her grandson.  So, today we go way back to the second episode from Season 1 to revisit Nettie’s answers to three very important questions. These are the same 3 questions Andy Richter asks his guests with every interview on his own podcast: Where do you come from? Where are you going? What have you learned?

Nettie explains the simplicity and complexity of ministering with radical love. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, @Momentswithnettie, YouTube @Moments With Nettie, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com to start a conversation or Comment on her website, YouTube or Facebook.  She will get right back to you! Listen to her podcasts, SermoNetties here or on your favorite podcast provider.  Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light! Don’t Be Crappy, Be Happy!

While on a little vacation, Nettie shares the audio of her latest video: Love - #1 Priority. Making decisions during times of world crisis means taking a close look at priorities. Nettie has a few tips to think about and invites you to look at your own priorities..

During a small transition with much-to-do, and in the midst of some global "ugly," Nettie updates some musings about our need to be gentle to self and the world.  It is a reminder that Ugly and scary -FEAR - has been prevalent and in the forefront for awhile and that we need to remind ourselves to take the space and time to reclaim the balm of self-care.  Ugly and fear are viral right now.  We must take the Covid approach to mask ourselves with love so as not to spread droplets of hate and fear.

Nettie applies one of the basic concepts of choral and instrumental groups to today’s daily needs -- How to stay present in the chaos when you need to take a breath or a break.

Noticing a sadness in her face and voice as she edited her weekly video, "This Little Light," Nettie does some pondering and studying about how we choose joy despite circumstances.  Siting an excerpt, Attitude Is Everything from the book, "Have Serious Fun," by Jim Burns, Nettie shares ways to notice when we are feeling down and how to seek and choose Joy in our lives.

Continuing with last week's theme, Nettie explains the gift of being Pollyanna in Putin world.  When faced with the waiting and wondering and thinking about what one can do in a crisis like this, how does one come at it with a positive attitude? There is a way to be a positive Pollyanna and win over tyranny!

We are all concerned with the invasion of Ukraine. What can we do? Do you feel helpless right now? What are we called to do for Ukraine? In today’s episode,Nettie has a way to start from where you are in this very moment.  Light a candle and listen. You can find Moments With Nettie on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and on her website: www.momentswithnettie.com Email her at nettiefitzenpitley@gmail.com Listen to her podcasts, SermoNetties on your favorite podcast provider. See more at: https://anchor.fm/debi-flory Be a First Responder in Love Be the Light! Don’t Be Crappy, Be Happy!

This is Nettie's 70th Birthday weekend and she is here to tell you she is strong, motivated and choosing to be who she's called to be for as long as she can.  How do you claim the call for your life? Do what you can, not what you can't and a couple of other "Nettie Gems."

It's Valentine's weekend and Nettie takes a look at how we are to love each other.  Valentine's Day is a wonderful opportunity to share your love with your lover, your children and your grandchildren, but Nettie thinks we should start building our community by loving one another.  How do you show your love to others?

Grief is a journey.  No matter what you grieve, a death, a marriage, a job loss, there is only one way to grieve and that is your way.  There are many resources for those who find their grief overwhelming.  How Nettie has come to understand her own grief journeys is by recognizing the stages of grief and searching for GIFT the  in the pain of grief.  Where are you in your own grief journey?  Nettie shares her recent walk with grief to help explain her process.

Nettie and Fred prepare for the passing of their beloved Labrador, Annie.

 Are you suffering from a case of the "shoulds?"  Do you give away your sacred creative time to others because you think you should? Do you push yourself to do things because you are convinced you should?  Listen to how Nettie is working on analyzing her "should" disease and how she is nestling into her passion to create and teach art. Set yourself free to be First Responders in Love and Light to the World. Check out Nettie's video blogs at www.momentswithnettie.com or find her on YouTube channel, Moments With Nettie.

Nettie starts off Season 3 with a serious conversation about the viral dominant factor - FEAR - that seeks to dominate the way of Love.  In a candid disclosure of her own vulnerabilities, in such a time as this, Nettie challenges us all to be First Responders in Love  and to Be The Light to others who so truly need to conquer their fears with love.

It's been a year since Nettie and Fred were evacuated from their home for 4 days as a mighty wind caused a mighty fire to threaten their home. Nettie adds new perspective to how we respond in the moment and how grateful we can feel in the aftermath. Subscribe to SermoNetties and download episodes of SermoNetties at your favorite podcast provider. You can find Nettie's video blog, Moments With Nettie, at www.momentswithnettie.com

In a world where nothing seems to stay the same, Nettie shares her upcoming transition and focuses on how we make the inevitable transitions in our life lessons for being First Responders in Love.

Don't have Asthma?  You are blessed. There is one kind of Asthma we all suffer from.  Spiritual Asthma.  Nettie shares some very practical tips for the times you find yourself not able to breathe in the midst of chaos.

It's hard to be kind in today's world, when hate and unkindness is so prevalent.  What do we do?  We be kind anyway.

Are you judging others and not looking at yourself first?  Nettie has a way to learn to respond to the negativity of others from compassion rather than judgement.  

Finding herself a bit "Joyfully Exhausted," after months of wonderful family events, Nettie shares her thoughts on rest and restoration and how to take a Sabbath + Sabbatical =Sabbathical!

As First Responders in Love, we are here to respond to those who live in fear from a place of love. We fight fear with love, because Love Always Wins!

One year ago, our nation grieved the loss of John Lewis. Some of us grieved with an enlightened respect towards his work as documentary and tributes flooded the airways. Today, many of our nation have done a 180 turn and openly reject the option of allowing our black and brown citizens the freedom to vote and their constitutional rights of citizenship.  Today, Nettie shares her thoughts from 1 year ago as she pondered and contemplated the life of John Lewis.  May we keep his legacy alive.

Nettie and Fred are off to a wedding, so please enjoy this re-run from last 4th of July, where Nettie introduces her first guest, Fred.

A series of things go wrong for Nettie, but she remembers when times were worse and everything turned out all right.  She reminds us that we can make things better with just a little possibility thinking.

An encore presentation, 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 herself 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.

How do you know what God wants you to do?  When do you throw in the towel and retire?  Many themes ran through Netties head this week and motivated her to take a look at what to do with her passion to serve.

Nettie expands on the poem, How To Be Happy, by Robert Louis Stevenson.   First Responders in Love must be the Light with a Joyful heart.  How do we choose to be happy?

On holiday. Nettie replays a SermoNettie from Episode 3, Season 1. 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 reflects on the tears of love we spill when participating in life events, both happy and sad.

Now what do we do? As vaccinations increase and Covid-19 numbers come down, the country is emerging from the stay-at-home routines we’ve endured for over a year. Nettie encourages kindness and to be First Responders in Love. Be carriers of kindness and light, the first to smile to others and the first to offer grace.

Holding and rocking her brand-new grandson to sleep, Nettie ponders the ancient practice of Women passing on Wisdom to their children. 

Nettie awaits the imminent birth of daughters first child.  Realizing she is now the matriarch in this situation, she recalls all her Mother and father passed on to her and what she in turn passes on to her daughter. 

In a world where toxic language and judging of others is viral, Nettie encourages First Responders in Love to first respond with a listening heart instead of reacting with repetitive shots of judgment regarding both the victims and the perpetrators.  It is our job to Be the Light, not to be the judge.

A popular Re-run while Nettie is on vacation: 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.

It's Season 2 and Nettie and Fred are on the road, safely traveling in their little trailer.  Nettie poses some questions on how we might be going forth as we ready for the post-covid world?  What are the best things about this past years and a half and what will you take with you?

Today, Easter, marks Nettie's one year anniversary of her podcast, SermoNetties. In celebration she shares her wonder at  Easter time and compares Easter to the renewal of Springtime. Thank you for being such wonderful supporters and First Responders in Love.  Happy Easter-Happy Spring! 

In a world of bullies and meanies, Nettie calls us to not only be First Responders in Love but to Kindle Kindness in others by employing the Fruits of the Spirit. Visit Nettie video blog at www.momentswithnettie.com

It's Spring! The world and our communities are slowly emerging from our year-long Covid 19 lockdown.  Nettie visits the varied emotions one feels and helps us find ways to prepare for our emergence.

Nettie looks at letting go of things, practices and chaos in order to find some peace i her Lenten practices this year.  Where do you find your peace ad how can you facilitate the process of being at peace in today's world?

There are a lot of messages, true and untrue flying around social media.  What we choose to believe, share or deny depends on where we find our own truths.  Nettie shares her feelings about this past week's flurry of truths and untruths about the censoring of Dr. Seuss' work.  Accept Nettie's challenge to do your homework when you see confusing messages, starting with knowing just who you are and just what your truth is.

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