Have you ever looked at your life and wondered how the painful pieces could possibly fit together into something meaningful?
Maybe you’ve walked through loss, disappointment, unanswered prayers, or seasons that felt confusing and heavy. In those moments, it can be difficult to see how anything good could come from the hardship.
But what if God is doing something deeper in the middle of it all?
This week on The Love Offering Podcast, I’m joined by author and speaker Kirby Kelly to talk about her beautiful and honest new book, The Fabric of Hope.
Kirby shares how God has been faithfully stitching together the threads of her own story—through unexpected love, deep grief after the sudden loss of her mom, seasons of doubt, family struggles, and betrayal. And through it all, she’s discovered something powerful: God wastes nothing.
Even the painful pieces of our lives can become part of a larger tapestry of redemption.
In our conversation, we talked about how God can bring sweetness from bitter seasons, purpose from pain, and hope right in the middle of life’s interruptions. Sometimes the very places we wish we could erase are the places where God reveals His presence most clearly.
Kirby reminds us that when we pause and look back over our lives, we often see a surprising pattern: some of our deepest moments with God happen in seasons we never would have chosen.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How God weaves meaning into the painful seasons of our lives
• Why hardship and hope often exist side by side
• How to reflect on your own story and see God’s faithfulness more clearly
• Why God’s interruptions may actually be divine invitations
Friend, if you are in a season that feels confusing, heavy, or unfinished, I pray this conversation reminds you that God is still working.
He is the thread that holds every piece together.
And one day, you may look back and see that what once felt like a torn place in your story became one of the most beautiful parts of the fabric.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation here
I’m so grateful you’re part of this community. My prayer is that this episode encourages you to trust the One who is faithfully weaving every chapter of your story together.
With love,
Rachael
P.S. If you know someone walking through a difficult season, consider sharing this episode with them. Sometimes a small reminder of hope can make a lasting difference.
Summary
In this episode of the Love Offering Podcast, host Rachael Adams welcomes Kirby Kelly, a speaker, author, and podcast host, to discuss themes of hope and redemption. Kirby shares her personal journey of faith, detailing how she found hope in Christ during a challenging upbringing marked by family addiction and personal struggles. She emphasizes the importance of vulnerability and transparency in sharing one’s faith journey, highlighting how these elements can inspire others. Kirby also discusses her new book, “The Fabric of Hope,” which explores how God weaves redemption into our lives even amidst pain and suffering. The conversation touches on the biblical concept of redemption as a profound expression of God’s love, encouraging listeners to find hope in their own lives through faith.
Transcript (AI Generated)
Rachael Adams (00:01.405)
Welcome to the Love Offering Podcast. I’m your host, Rachel Adams, author of Everyday Prayers for Love, learning to love God, others, and even yourself. Each week we dive into meaningful conversations about how to live out the greatest commandment, living God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Whether through inspiring stories, practical wisdom, or biblical truth, my hope is to encourage you to love boldly, live faithfully, and reflect God’s love in your everyday life.
Today, I’m honored to welcome Kirby Kelly to the show. Kirby is a speaker, author, podcast host, and content creator based in Dallas, Texas, who has spent more than a decade using digital platforms to equip, encourage, and engage a global audience with the truth of the gospel. With formal training in biblical studies and theology, Kirby has a unique ability to bring depth without heaviness and hope without cliches. Through her podcast, Boughtt and Beloved, and her presence on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, she helps people grow in their love for God and understanding of His Word. Kirby is the author of You Can Be Free and her newest book, The Fabric of Hope. In this powerful new release, Kirby explores how God is weaving redemption into our lives even before our pain is resolved. Through honest storytelling and biblical truth, she reminds us that hopelessness is not a place God avoids. It’s often the very place He meets us. Her message is especially meaningful for those walking through grief, burnout, anxiety, or seasons when faith feels difficult to hold on to. Well, hello Kirby, and welcome to the love offering podcast. I’m so happy to have you.
Kirby Kelly (01:30.008)
Thank you for having me. I’m so excited for our conversation today.
Rachael Adams (01:34.045)
Yeah, me too. I was telling you before we hit record that I feel very kindred with you because you have the Bought and Beloved podcast. So I feel like this, this idea of love is kind of our MO. So tell me, tell me a bit about the beginning of your story with that podcast and the heart behind it.
Kirby Kelly (01:49.518)
Yeah, so I started that podcast back in 2019, like February 2019, which is crazy because I’m like, it feels like it was yesterday, but that was also what, like, seven years ago, which is crazy, like creeping up on a decade in a few years. But basically, with that podcast, I was in college, I was still in my undergrad program at DBU, majoring in communications, minoring in biblical studies at that point. And it wasn’t that there weren’t a ton of people podcasting at that point. I think that’s when it started to get a little bit more popular. Now I feel like everybody and their mom has a podcast, but I felt like the Lord put it on my heart that he was saying, ” Hey, I want you to start a podcast. And I remember just having this conversation with him, like, I don’t even know where to begin with that. Like I’m a student, I’m in school. I’m just trying to be faithful with everything else that you’ve called me to do.
Kirby Kelly (02:44.814)
And so I prayed about it, and about a week later, a network reached out to me. They were like, ” Hey, nine out of our 10 executives brought up your name, and we want to help you start your podcast and like train you in that. And I told them, ” Hey, I don’t even need to pray about this because I already prayed about this last week. And then a week later, I put out my first episode, and I’ve been doing it ever since. But the name, even to just tie it back to what you said, bought and beloved. The reason I chose that name out of all the ones I was considering is that I feel like it just encapsulates the heart of the gospel: we are bought by the blood of Christ, and we are his beloved. And I think that those are two really solidifying identity statements, not only about us, but also our relationship with God. And so I’m hoping that whenever people tune into the podcast, they’re not only equipped with the truth, but also feel like they are being ushered into a real, deep relationship with Jesus through theology and just intimacy with him. So yeah.
Rachael Adams (03:48.288)
Yeah. Well, we’re very similar in some ways; mine started, and this is my eighth year. And so it’s just amazing. Um, but what God can do and all the different conversations we can have. And, um, so I’d love to hear before that, when did you first connect and realize God’s love for you? Like and believe in him as your Lord and Savior.
Kirby Kelly (04:12.424)
Man, that’s a good question. So for me, the actual connection, like the moment that it all clicked for me, was when I was 14 years old, and I was at a Christian summer camp. But prior to that, growing up, I was a Christian now, but growing up, it was very much like a nominal Catholic in my family, where it was like, you just went to mass, you got baptized as a baby, you’re good to go. And that’s kind of like the depth of my understanding of who God was, who Jesus was. I didn’t really have a theology of the Holy Spirit as a child, if I’m being honest. None of that really existed for me. But growing up, I went through a lot of stuff, and I’m sure a lot of people have gone through a lot of things. But for me, my parents both dealt with addiction. My dad ended up passing away from his alcoholism when I was 10 years old. And I think through that, through my parents struggling with addiction, especially my dad, in my youth. My parents got divorced because of that, moving across states, ending up going to a school where I just felt like I didn’t fit in. I was bullied. I was suicidal. I was self-harming. I just didn’t even know that I was worthy of love at that point. And let alone that this so-called good and loving God loved me. Like, I couldn’t change the fact that he would let my family, my loved ones, and me go through all of these things for any reason at all. And so I really struggled with the idea of God loving me. If anything, I thought that I had to work and earn love in many ways. But when I was 14, I went to a Christian summer camp that I had attended for a couple of years. But that summer in particular was different because I think just the school year before then when I was in the thick of struggling with depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, really just being at this place where I was like, am just so unworthy of love and undeserving of life. Coming back to that camp, being in the presence of God, studying His word, and just being in an environment where we were just having these open and honest conversations about real life and also a real God, it clicked for me that there is so much more to this life than everything that I’ve known. And so in an honest heart cry, just during a random Wednesday night worship session, I just asked God, know, like, or told God, I’m tired of this. I’m tired of the life that I’m living, and I only feel joyful when I’m here. And to make a long story short, I felt God’s presence in such a tangible way that the only word I can use to describe it is euphoric. Like it was unlike, it was the most real experience I’ve ever had in my life. And I felt his presence, and in that moment, he began ministering to me, and something that he said to me was, I’m your perfect and present father in heaven who loves you. And I’ll never forget those words. Like he said that to me, like to my spirit, not audibly. And it just changed everything for me, like, I have a perfect and present father in heaven who actually sees me and loves me and has something so much better for me than what I’ve settled for and what I’ve known. And so I decided in that moment, I’m gonna give my life to you, Lord, and I wanna live my life for you because the life I’ve been living hasn’t been life at all, it’s been death, truly. And so receiving the love of Christ, the love of a father in that moment, completely changed my life, and loving him completely changed the course of my life.
Rachael Adams (07:56.192)
It does change everything. Well, I can’t wait to continue today’s conversation, but we’re going to take a brief break to hear a word from today’s sponsor. And when we come back, we’ll talk more about Kirby’s book, The Fabric of Hope.
Rachael Adams (08:11.967)
Welcome back. are talking with Kirby Kelly about her new book, The Fabric of Hope. So from that moment that you had at 14 at that church camp, that sounds like it sparked hope in you. And so, how have you seen this thread of hope throughout your life, from 14 until now?
Kirby Kelly (08:31.116)
Yeah, well, so in the book, I detail a lot of my life, a lot of what I’ve gone through, and I shared some of it with everyone today. But when I got saved when I was 14, right after that, just after that, and I’m like, okay, God is working, and the enemy sees that, he’s definitely striking and setting up some traps and attacks. And for me, that looked like my mom relapsing, relapsing with her addiction, and I remember navigating that season of my life, and it being so different because I actually had hope in Christ. I mean, before then, I didn’t have hope in anything, like not in God, not in myself, not in other people. I felt completely let down by everything and everyone. I was just aimlessly wandering to the point where I was like, okay, there’s no point to anything, and then I encountered Christ, which completely pivoted my worldview. It completely pivots how I relate to other people, how I view myself, and how I view my suffering. And being a new Christian navigating high school, let alone a home life that was completely chaotic and broken, my only hope was Jesus because he was the only constant.
And I’m thankful that I started going to church right after I got saved. My friend invited me to a youth group with her, and I got plugged in and began to be equipped to understand the word of God. I love theology. I love it so much. I love studying the word because I believe that when we have an informed theology, we have an informed love for God and an actual understanding of who he is, and not just what the media says, not just maybe what one person told us about him. And so learning about who he was actually fueled and fanned the flame of my hope that I can trust in God even when my circumstances aren’t working out in the way that I expected. I can still believe he is good, even when my situation might suggest otherwise. And so I had to really learn how to address the reality of what I was going through, but also the reality of who God was and what he could do in the midst of it. Because I think, for a lot of people, when it comes to hope, we look at it as this thing where, when things are going well, then I can hope. But how many of us know that we need hope when things are going badly? Like when we’re in the thick of it, when we’re in the gutter of life, when we’re in the middle of the storm, and the winds and the waves are shaking and crashing against our house.
That’s why it’s so important that we know who our God is: not only is he our rock and our firm foundation, but I love what Romans 15:13 says and identifies him as the God of hope. And that, as we put our trust in him from that place, from that place of trust and knowing who he is, we can actually be overflowing with hope from the power of the Holy Spirit. That we can actually have an abundance of joy and peace when it doesn’t make sense, because we are putting our confident expectation, that’s what biblical hope is. It’s not this kind of wishful thinking, like hoping I get a good parking spot or win the lottery. I mean, I hope for both, but like that’s wishful thinking. But biblical hope is rooted in this confident expectation of the faithfulness of God, how he’s faithful to his character, his personhood, how he’s faithful to his promises, his patterns, his presence in our lives. And the more I pressed into that, of actually hoping in what is true, in who is true, Jesus, it changed how I navigated every situation, whether it was addiction with my mom, whether it was just hard friend group situations, I don’t know, backstabbing or slandering or whatever, relationships when men let me down or cross boundaries that I never wanted them to. And I had to figure out, know, God, why did I go through these things? Why did you allow me to go through these seasons and situations of suffering? Why did you allow me to go through a broken world, right? The sinful world we live in. But having hope in him changes everything. And we need to begin to identify where we may have misplaced hope in our own lives if we’re going to get to the place where we can hope in him in every season and situation.
Rachael Adams (13:11.209)
Have people come around you to infuse you with hope? You know, I imagine in your journey, there have been men and women in the church, people in the church, a community that has supported this idea of hope in you.
Kirby Kelly (13:25.637)
Oh, absolutely. For one, my youth pastor growing up was Jared, his wife is Allie, and they’re incredible. They’re like my second mom and dad. Both of my parents have passed away. My mom passed away back in 2023. But even when my mom was alive, they really stepped up in many ways for me, especially spiritually, just helping me navigate the nuanced situation of being a teenager who was living at home in a situation that was completely out of my control, but as a Christian navigating that. And I think they discipled me very well in knowing how to read scripture and pursue the Lord wholeheartedly. And I’m so thankful for that, especially since I was a teenager. I don’t know how many teenagers really have somebody out there who is pouring into them the way that they poured into me. And I really feel that burden to equip other people in that same way, where I might not be able to come over to your house and mentor you one-on-one like that or disciple you one-on-one. But I mean, that’s the heart of this book, that people like them came alongside me when I was going through the middle of the mess, where it was like perpetual. And I had no idea when that season would wrap up or end, if ever. And they infused me with that hope, the hope of the gospel, the hope of who God was, the consistency of his character versus just my circumstance, which is ever changing. We live in a finite and fleeting world. So they were a huge part of that in my life. In college, it was my roommates. And I’m thankful that I lucked out. Like, I literally won the roommate lottery because these are like my sisters for life. Not everybody has that story.
If they go to college, sometimes they have that roommate where it’s like, you know what, God deliver me from this. But I’m so thankful that God and his kindness allowed me to have roommates who were so supportive of me as I was going through seasons of anxiety, situations of deep shame, and when I was struggling even with habitual sin. That’s what my first book is about. That they surrounded me and gave me hope for my freedom, gave me hope for my deliverance by tethering me and tying my vision back to keeping my eyes on God and not my own power and strength, not my situation or season, but the God who’s consistent through it all and gets us through these things. And even now, as an adult, I’m expecting my first baby, and I’m grieving my mom while becoming a mom. And there’s so much nuance even to that situation. But my husband has been like my hope cheerleader. The book is dedicated to him because he has just been someone in my life who is consistent with having this genuine gratitude for God in everything, in every season, where I can sometimes fall into like, complaining, and like woe is me, and just sounding like some of these weeping prophets, or it’s like God, where have you been? Where are you? He’s been someone who has reminded me, but he’s here, and he’s good, and let’s actually look for God in the middle of this place. So he’s been a big person in this season of my life who has helped me to cling on to hope, and not just for the sake of being a good Christian, or that’s what a good Christian should do, but genuinely, we get to have real, tangible hope because of the God we know, love, and serve.
Rachael Adams (17:04.745)
Yeah, you know, once we understand and have this hope that you’ve been talking about, how do we pass that on? I mean, I feel like the world is in desperate need of hope. Like this message is so timeless and timely at the same time. So how do we pass on the hope that we found in Christ?
Kirby Kelly (17:23.118)
Well, I appreciate you saying that about the book and its message, because I agree: nothing is new under the sun. We are going to need hope today, tomorrow, forevermore until, you know, everything is redeemed. Right. But I think for us, when it comes to being that light in other people’s lives, it’s to boldly live out the truth of the gospel. And also, I think, to be vulnerable and transparent about what we’re going through. I think a temptation that a lot of Christians can face. And this isn’t true for everybody or every Christian community. But I know maybe even like in Southern culture, because I’m from Texas, a Texas girl. I know you’re a Kentucky girl, but like maybe this is true over there too, where it’s like sometimes church can be this performance in a way, where it’s almost like the Christian country club, where it’s like everybody comes and it’s like, God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good. And it’s like, you know, that’s great and all, but it’s like you and your husband are having marital issues or your kid is a prodigal son, and that you had to bail him out of jail again. Or, you know, someone that you’re really close with got the diagnosis, and it doesn’t seem like it’s turning around, and you’re really doubting and questioning if God is good and if he’s not just hearing your prayers, but flat out ignoring them. These are real things that we wrestle with as Christians. And for me, I’ve been honest about my journey, and I just feel that call to be vulnerable about what I’m going through. But in that, I also have this hope in who I know to be true and what I know to be true, even in the middle of what I’m going through. And I think that vulnerability and transparency of, yes, this is my season. Yes, this is my situation. It also leaves room to be like, “This is also my God, and I get to testify about that, and people listen to that because people relate to it.” And what I’ve noticed, at least in my own life or this season of life that I’m in, like I said, with grief with my mom and all those things, I’ve been very, very vulnerable about that online. I’m just sharing every emotion I’ve felt through it all. Is that even as I’ve grieved and lamented, and as I’ve studied the laments in the Bible, they always end with the high note of hope. And I think we can be transparent that this sucks. This situation sucks, and I hate it, and I wish I didn’t have to go through it. But then there’s that high end of hope, that high end note of hope, but like God is good and he’s always been good and he’s been faithful then and he’s faithful now. And I think that just helps other people to see and reframe in their own lives. Wait, God can actually do something here. He can begin redeeming things now. He can begin working in my life and infusing hope, joy, peace, and faith in this place right now. So I think for other people, if you want to be a beacon of hope, yes, declare the truth, but maybe also lead with vulnerability of why you believe that to be true, because it often comes out of our own suffering and our own seasons of searching for the Lord and his hand weaving redemption into the places in our own life and that inspires other people.
Rachael Adams (20:46.461)
Yeah, yeah, it does. And it just reminds me, as you’re talking, we really can hold joy and sorrow at the same time. Yeah, well, I can’t wait to continue today’s conversation, but we’re going to take another brief break to hear a word from today’s sponsor. And when we come back, we will talk more about suffering joy and how God forms us through the seasons we would never choose.
Kirby Kelly (20:52.27)
Totally.
Rachael Adams (21:08.403)
Welcome back. I’m talking with Kirby Kelly about her book, The Fabric of Hope. And so Kirby, I’m just especially mindful today of maybe the person listening who is feeling especially hopeless. What would you encourage or how would you encourage him or her today?
Kirby Kelly (21:25.742)
I would say that what you’re going through and everything you’re feeling is completely valid. I think that another temptation that we have, along with slapping on the God is good sticker or bandaid, I should say, over our open and gushing wounds of what we’re going through, is also fake fine. Just like faking that everything’s fine. Everything’s OK. I’m not allowed to question. I’m not allowed to wrestle with these doubts. I’m not allowed to be mad at God. I’m not like we feel like.
We limit ourselves from actually feeling and asking and wrestling with what we’re going through because I think that there’s this misconception that if we do that, then A, we’re either a bad Christian and God’s gonna be mad at us, or B, we’re gonna end up completely abandoning the faith as a whole. And I don’t want that because I don’t wanna go to hell. But I wanna encourage the person who feels hopeless today to actually begin by identifying what you’re feeling and what you’re going through. And to remember that we serve a God who stepped down from the throne of heaven himself through the person of Christ, being fully man and fully God, and did not limit himself from enduring suffering. And what that means is that he gets it more than anyone. Like, I know we can joke about it, like, “Jesus wept,” right? It’s the shortest Bible verse, and everyone has it memorized. It’s like, do you have a Bible verse memorized? Yeah, Jesus wept, right? From Luke. But it’s like, when we really think about that, like, Jesus lost close friends. Jesus was also abandoned and betrayed by his people. I mean, goodness gracious, he was nearly whipped and beaten to death, mocked, scorned, and crucified, killed in front of his like mother, his own mother, and his friends and family. Like Jesus, God himself is the only one who can truly empathize the most with what we’re going through. And I think that should be a sobering reminder of how we can really go to him with everything that we are feeling. And you might be wondering how on earth this relates to hope? Because this is sad. Yeah, it is. The hope is that the cross is that, three days later, Jesus rose again and testified to this. And I think even in our own situations, I’m not gonna say that he’s gonna resurrect the thing that died in your life or that every wrong that happened to you is going to be made right exactly how you expect or on your timeline. But what I do know is that Jesus is a redeemer. And that’s my favorite characteristic of God: He is a redeemer of all things.
And so if you are in the middle of that place today, bring him your tears, bring him your questions, bring him your real doubts, bring him your anger, bring him everything. But also bring it, knowing this truth in mind that when we place it in his hands, he is faithful to redeem. I don’t know what that’ll look like. I don’t know what that’ll look like. I don’t know who that might look like or who it might look like. But what I know is that time and time again, the overarching meta-narrative of the Bible, the big S story that we see from Genesis to Revelation, is that it ends with this redemption and restoration. And when we zoom in even closer to the smaller stories throughout the whole Bible, like getting into each book of scripture, again, there are moments in time where God’s people are going through it, where it’s like, where? Are you God? Have you abandoned us? But they continued to reach out to God, even to ask those questions, and to continue to pursue God. And in inviting him in, they were able to see, through yielding to him, obeying him, and trusting him, that he could bring redemption and restoration to so many of their stories and circumstances. I think of Joseph, I think of Job. I think of Paul, I think of Jesus, like just to name four people whose stories, like these, were real people where real things were happening. But hope had the final word because God has the final word. He’s the author and finisher of our faith. So the hope today is that we can meet him in the raw and real moments of what we are going through, but we need to go to him with it and continue to pursue him because in the middle of that place, he will meet us with his hand of redemption, his hand of restoration, his needle and thread of silver lining in the midst of our sable clouds. So that’s what I would say to the person who’s in the middle of that place today: it might look different, and the timing might not be your timeline, but God has always been faithful to do that. So why would he change now? The unchanging God, why would he change now for your circumstance? I don’t think he would.
Rachael Adams (26:37.095)
Hmm, me either. You know, as you’re talking, I’ve been studying the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew one and the five women tomorrow, Rehab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. And as I’ve been studying each of their stories, they are all so messy, and yet they’re all within the genealogy of Jesus. And if they had only known that it was going to be part of their story, it just gives me so much hope and expectation that, regardless of the mess that’s going on in my life, we never know how God is using it to shape eternity. And it’s just so beautiful to think we are part of that story too. And this episode is actually going to release right before Easter. And you were talking about the hope of the cross and what he has done for us. And I just think about how beautifully timed this release of this message is. And I’m so thankful for that and for everything that you’ve communicated today. I know you’ve already infused my heart with hope. So this season, I have been asking all my guests whether there is a biblical concept of love that applies to this topic.
Kirby Kelly (27:44.94)
Yeah, I kind of already alluded to it, but redemption. And I think it’s one of those things where it’s like, how do love and redemption go hand in hand? It’s like, well, God loves us, so he redeems us. Yes. But I think even like, if we were to zoom out a little and then zoom back into scripture, I think of like the story of Ruth or the book of Ruth, where it’s like you have Ruth and Boaz. And it’s like us girlies, you know, we can be like, my gosh, like you gotta find your Boaz. And like, that’s the only thing we take away from it. But there’s so much to that story, even of who Boaz was. Culturally, his role in Naomi’s family was that of the redeemer. And so, because Naomi and Ruth went to him, there was this redemption that happened like not even in the the cultural level but like there was there’s this spiritual redemption that we see in both Ruth’s life and Naomi’s life where it’s like Ruth starts out with like losing her husband and losing her sons and and Naomi loses her husband and loses her sons and she’s like you know call me bitter like God has abandoned me I’m empty like I I hate what’s going on here but the story ends with her being full of God’s redemption through Ruth and Boaz and holding a new baby. And it’s like we see this full circle redemption through the marriage between Boaz and Ruth and this relationship. And that’s just like the condensed version of what we see with that. But I think about that in the context of scripture, like, Jesus is also our redeemer. There are seasons that we go through where there has been great loss, where there has been great famine, where there has been great desolation, where there has been great whatever. We, those of us who are in Christ, who are his bride, and he is our bridegroom, have been redeemed out of so many things. Not only our sin and our shame, but he also wants to bring redemption to the suffering and the sorrow, like the bitterness, the weeping, the anguish. Like, I love the promise of Revelation that he wipes away every tear.
And this is the suffering servant who does that, right? The one who was well acquainted with grief. He is the one who wipes our tears away. And I just think redemption is one of the clearest pictures of love we see in the Bible, because Christ’s redemption came with great sacrifice, and our husbands are called to love their wives with this sacrificial love. And so I would say that redemption is probably one of my favorite aspects or elements of the Bible or of who God is where we see his love the greatest because it’s not just this act of buying something back and redeeming it, but there’s so much freedom and fullness and restoration that comes with the redemption of God in our life that is just ultimate proof of his unconditional love for us.
Rachael Adams (30:55.199)
Well, it is clear that you love the Lord and you love His Word. Yes, so tell us something else that you are loving.
Kirby Kelly (31:04.558)
Oh my gosh, I’m loving, well, this season of life, really, like I said, I’m expecting my first baby. Like my book comes out April 7th, my baby comes out maybe April 26th. We’ll see. It is, it’s gonna be a full month, and I’m loving it. Even with how busy everything is and how full my schedule is and how, you know, painful my sciatica is and all the things that come with pregnancy that I was not prepared for.
Rachael Adams (31:16.9)
Goodness, April’s gonna be a great month.
Kirby Kelly (31:33.974)
I’ve been loving every minute of it because to tie it back to redemption and love, I feel like this baby girl has just been the perfect picture. I say that she’s my pink bow on top of a beautiful season of just seeing God’s redemption, where I was just in the darkest, coldest winter for a long time after my mom died. And he gave me this word, ” I’m bringing you into your spring. And then a few months later, I find out I’m pregnant with a spring baby. I have a spring book release. It’s like, I’m just loving this season because I had hope then, when I was in the middle of what I was going through, but I still have hope now, seeing how he’s been able to tie up those loose ends into beautiful bows that I never expected. And that’s the beauty of it, God, you did something I didn’t expect. And it’s way better than anything I could have ever expected. So I’m loving that.
Rachael Adams (32:29.471)
That’s beautiful, Kirby. Well, so will you put bows on your little girl? Like here in Kentucky, the big old bows. Yeah. Well, I know I want to stay connected with you. I’m sure listeners are going to want to, so tell us how we can get a copy of your book, listen to your podcast, and just connect with you.
Kirby Kelly (32:32.567)
Thanks. Oh, I have to. Oh yeah, we’re in the South. So even if I do, even if I don’t, somebody will, somebody will.
Kirby Kelly (32:55.918)
Totally. Well, as far as social media and stuff go, you can check me out. My podcast is called Bought and Beloved, and we’re on the same network, which is really cool. So you’ll be able to find us through the same network if you’re listening to her podcast. And I upload there every week. I also post on my Instagram, my YouTube, and sometimes my TikTok, which is Kirby is a Boss. I made it when I was 13, and I’m probably gonna die with it like that. So Kirby is a boss, and my socials are there all the time. Lastly, if you wanna check out my book, you can still pre-order it by the time this episode airs. And with pre-orders, there’s a bunch of cool freebies. If you go to fabricofhopebook.com, it’ll link to wherever the book is sold, like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christianbook.com, and everywhere FaithGateway is available. But if you do order it and just scroll on that page, you can enter your order information, and you’ll get, like, a free video devotional teaching series. You’ll get a Bible journaling prayer guide. You’ll be able to read the first few chapters before you even get the book. So I want people to take advantage of those freebies because I love free stuff. So just visit Fabric of Hope, or look it up, and you can get the book wherever it’s sold.
Rachael Adams (34:17.521)
Well, I love free stuff too. So we’re going to include all of that in the show notes, but I’m Kirby. Thank you. Would you just do us the honor of praying for us as we close?
Kirby Kelly (34:26.25)
Absolutely. Lord, I just want to thank you for today. I want to thank you for this episode and for every single person who has decided to tune in. And I pray that they are walking away a little more hopeful, not just hopeful of, maybe things will get better, and maybe this and maybe that, but that they would have a true, confident expectation in who you are, not just their circumstance, not themselves, not other people, places, things, systems, politics, nations, whatever. But God, that we would step back and put our full hope in you, that you are in control, that you are good, that you redeem, that you have a perfect plan for our lives and for what we have gone through, that you can really stitch it back together to be something good and worthy and beautiful. I pray that they would have that hope and that confidence today and that they would just take one step closer to you, whether that is having hope in you or whether that’s even just bringing their tears and questions before you, that you would just meet them and comfort them and infuse confidence and hope within them as they pursue you in the middle of their mess or even with the past seasons that still need to be dealt with, God. And I pray this all in Jesus’ name, amen.
Rachael Adams (35:50.137)
Amen. Well, Kirby, today you have helped me fall more in love with Christ. Thank you for being here today and infusing us with more hope. Appreciate your time today.
Kirby Kelly (36:03.71)
Absolutely. Thank you for having me.
Rachael Adams (36:06.963)
Thank you so much for listening to the Love Offering Podcast. I hope today’s conversation encouraged and inspired you to love God, love others, and even love yourself a little more. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and leave a review. helps others find the show and spreads the message of love even further. To connect with me, visit me on my website at rachaelkdams.com. While you’re there, be sure to download the Love Offering Calendar, a free resource filled with simple daily ways to love those around you. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Kirby Kelly’s book, Fabric of Hope, a powerful reminder that even when life feels like it’s unraveling, God is still faithfully weaving redemption into every thread of our story. A special thank you to Life Audio for supporting this podcast and making it possible. To find more great podcasts, visit LifeAudio.com. Thanks again for joining us today. Until next time, let’s make our lives an offering of love.
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