Candace Nassar (00:00.812)
Well, welcome, MomQ family. Today we have my new friend, Hannah Crews on the show. And I am so excited for you guys to meet her. She is funny, genuine, and all about helping others embrace the joy of the Lord. And who doesn’t need that these days? So she’s here today to share some of her story and her amazing mom wisdom. Welcome, Hannah.
Hannah Crews (00:24.494)
Thank you so much. my goodness. It’s so funny because I am really in this season of my life where, despite all the fun things that I do on the internet or with writing books, where my children are my number one ministry, and so I’m reading all of these, but my kids are eight and ten, so it’s not like I’m a new mom but I’m just craving knowledge and wisdom right now more than ever. And so I love talking about this kind of stuff because in the thick of it right now, I really want to grow in wisdom in the momhood department.
Candace Nassar (00:57.9)
That is so great. Well, that’s what we’re all about here. So very good. And you know, it’s interesting. Eight and 10 are a key age. You’re about to hit the preteen stage and you’re still, they still like you. They still want to spend time with you. And so that you’re discipling them at a key time. So that’s really good that you’re seeking that help because, you know, a lot of times moms think we only need that wisdom in the very beginning when we’re first learning.
Hannah Crews (01:00.173)
Yeah.
Hannah Crews (01:11.95)
Hannah Crews (01:24.014)
Yeah.
Candace Nassar (01:26.284)
But really we need it all the way through because our job is never done. My kids are all grown. I’m going to be a grandma soon and I’m still seeking wisdom.
Hannah Crews (01:35.958)
Yes, yes. My father-in-law used to always say, “It’s such a shame we have to have kids in order to have grandkids because grandkids are the best.” He loved it. He was like, “I could have just that part and then just been a grandfather and I would have been good.”
Candace Nassar (01:41.272)
That
Candace Nassar (01:48.256)
That’s so funny. Yeah, that’s what I hear. I can’t wait. It’ll be our first. So yeah, thank you. Thank you so much. OK, well, so just before we dive in, just tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. Well, you already said you had two kids and how long you’ve been married and all of that sort of thing.
Hannah Crews (01:51.812)
That’s so exciting. Congratulations. That’s awesome.
Hannah Crews (02:06.978)
Yes, I’ve been married now for almost 12 years. Our anniversary is coming up in a couple weeks. We got pregnant right away, which was not the plan. I met my husband two months later. We got engaged four months later after that we got married. And then five months after that I got pregnant and I was freaking the heck out because already marriage is difficult. And whenever you marry someone you really don’t even know, which is really weird. But we love each other so much, but it was just so hard that first year, and then getting pregnant so quickly was so terrifying for me. But what’s so cool about the miracle of life and what God does is He has used our daughter and we didn’t realize how much we needed our daughter at the time. Our daughter has refined our character in so many ways. Our daughter has caused us to grow close to the Lord. Our daughter has just been the biggest blessing. Exactly what we needed at that exact time. So, God has just been so faithful. And then two and a half years later we gave birth to our son.
Candace Nassar (02:33.996)
Mmm.
Hannah Crews (03:02.382)
So we’ve got the girl. We’ve got the boy. We’re so blessed. We’re so happy. We live in Forward, Texas, and God has just been really, really faithful in allowing my motherhood journey and becoming a parent for the both of us to be a refiner, to be a sharpener. It really put a whole lot more responsibility on us to grow in the things of the Lord because of the example that we’re having to set for them. It’s just been the best thing ever.
Candace Nassar (03:25.041)
Mm-hmm.
Hannah Crews (03:28.502)
I have loved it because I’ve loved to see the growth in my own personal life and not being as immature, not being as prideful, not being as selfish. It’s just, I’m just so grateful for it. I’m so grateful for it.
Candace Nassar (03:40.202)
Amen. That is what the Bible tells us. That’s part of what motherhood does. That women are saved through childbearing. That’s our sanctification, right? So it is a beautiful thing. Sometimes I think when we’re in the thick of it, we can’t see that. So that’s a great reminder. So thanks for that. So tell us what inspired you to write. So you have this really precious devotional called Goodness Gracious, and it was published by Dayspring, which is really neat.
Hannah Crews (03:55.446)
Yeah,
Candace Nassar (04:09.448)
And that’s actually how I found you. I think it’s great because it’s light, but it’s not at the same time. I don’t know how to describe it, but just tell us what inspired you to write it.
Hannah Crews (04:21.582)
Yes, I think that now especially, and even if you’re a mother or if you’re really just growing up in American society, which can already be so difficult, everybody’s at each other’s throats. You’re already feeling like you’re not enough, it’s a constant battle of either seeking joy or walking in defeat. And so I had to learn within my own personal story, within the things that have happened to me in my own life that the joy of the Lord truly is our strength and that if the Bible says that, then that has to be true. And so in order for us to function properly, in order for us to be effective for the kingdom of God, we have to pursue joy every single day despite our circumstances. And so I saw the need for that and I saw the desire for that and posting joyful content on the internet was kind of where it started for me. I started posting joyful content and people were eating it up because especially on social media, it can be a soul-sucking place. It is such a difficult place. Comparison is flying around everywhere. Bad news is just circulating like a toilet bowl. It’s just terrible. And so I just thought, you know, we need a little bit more joy on the internet. And so whenever the Bible says that, you know, we’re called to go into all corners of the earth and preach the gospel, I use social media as kind of like my corner of the earth. This is the corner that I’m preaching the gospel in. So I have really pushed that, and pushed the light of Jesus and the love of Jesus through joy despite my own circumstances. People have grabbed a hold of it, which is exactly what I feel like the Lord wanted them to see and what my ministry is. But that did open doors for people like DaySpring publishers to come and say, “Hey, have you ever thought about writing a funny, joyful devotional?” I’m like, “Well, not really but that would be amazing.” So that was kind of the start of it and so we wrote Goodness Gracious. It was such a wonderful thing because whenever God calls you higher, you must go deeper. And so motherhood has been a refiner for me and really realizing that I can do nothing without the Lord. I can do nothing. I am so dependent on Him and I need Him in the thick of this motherhood thing. I also realized that if I am called to write a book about the Lord, about the joy of the Lord, I need to dive into scripture more than ever before. And so that was what was, I think, my favorite part about it.
Candace Nassar (06:18.904)
Mmm.
Hannah Crews (06:44.53)
Diving into scripture and seeing what the Bible says about walking in joy and how that can radically impact our life for the better. That’s awesome and wonderful to see how, after people have read this book and read these devotions every day, how that has impacted their life and seeing what the Lord has done through them. So that’s been really, really cool.
Candace Nassar (06:53.654)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (07:06.114)
That’s so great. Yeah. I love how you say when God calls you higher than he calls you to go deeper. That’s pretty profound. So, okay. So, I have to ask you, where do you get your sense of humor? Because you’re hilarious.
Hannah Crews (07:18.382)
Thank you. I feel like I, and I’ve said this before, but I think everybody in our family has a wonderful sense of humor. So, I think it’s just kind of ingrained for one thing. And then also, I mean, I don’t know, I’ve been through a lot of weird, crazy things. And so I feel like trauma has something to do with it. I’ve been through some wild stuff, but because God has pulled me through the wild things that I’ve gone through, I can’t help but be joyful because I can see the goodness of God despite the things I have gone through and I’ve decided I’m not gonna live defined by what has happened to me. I’m not gonna live defined by the bad things that have happened to my life. I’m gonna walk in joy and victoriously seeing that God can pull me through basically anything. If I can go through that and I can survive, praise Him. It just brings this new found joy and happiness in my life that I just can’t contain.
So between having a funny family already and also being able to come out of some hard stuff, I think that it just naturally, it’s just the Holy Spirit. It totally is. That’s just what He does in our fleshly human bodies. He can provide beauty for ashes. So I think that’s what He is, obviously.
Candace Nassar (08:20.28)
Mmm. Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (08:26.632)
So good. That’s so good. I married the humor in my life. So yeah, so I get that. I mean, I don’t naturally have it, but my husband thinks he’s a comedian and he keeps it light and we need that. I mean, I love the very front of your devotional. You say, “90 unfiltered devotions for the sometimes too serious life.” Some of us can tend to just get way too into our thoughts and so that’s what you’re encouraging.
Hannah Crews (08:30.862)
Cool.
Candace Nassar (08:55.948)
So tell us what, how do you live in joy? How do we live in joy when we’re going through something hard? How did you? In your book, you say choose joy. And when you first heard that phrase, you were like, “Well, that’s just ridiculous. I can’t just pick joy like a booger.” So funny. So how do we do that?
Hannah Crews (09:14.862)
Yeah, I think it’s so easy for us that, whenever we are walking through difficult things, whenever we have no sleep as mothers, whenever we have an argument with our spouse, whenever things are just not going well financially, whatever it is, it is so easy for us to want to wallow in the valley. But in the word of God, it says very clearly that even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I won’t fear any evil for You’re with me.
The Bible doesn’t say, “Hey, whenever you’re in the valley, go ahead and pitch a tent and set up camp and just go ahead and stay there and wallow in it because that’s just where you’re supposed to be.” No, it says, “When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because you are with me.” Therefore, we’re not meant to stay in the valley. And so whenever I finally grabbed a hold of that and realized that, I think that’s whenever I started to experience some freedom. And I remember very vividly in high school, having trouble in high school with your heartbreak or just mean girls just being awful. I would skip school and I would go to my aunt’s house and I would sit on her living room floor and I would cry and I would tell her all of my problems and she was real old and she’d sit in her rocking chair and she’d rock back and forth and every time I’d say something that was bad she’d go, “Well, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.” It irritated the fire out of me. I was like, “Why would I praise the Lord in a circumstance like this? There’s nothing praiseworthy about any of this.” And then she’d just look at me and she’d go, “But honey, all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and to those who are called according to his purpose. And baby girl, you are called.” And so she would remind me of that truth over and over and over that even when it doesn’t look good, even when it doesn’t feel good, all things will work together for good.
Candace Nassar (10:52.066)
Mm.
Hannah Crews (11:05.482)
Whether that is the Lord trying to teach me something, whether that’s the Lord giving me a way of escape from a relationship I wasn’t supposed to be in. Even though it’s painful, the Lord is going to use it for our good. So I have realized that that is where my joy comes from. Knowing that we are going to experience suffering, we are going to experience heartache, but we are not meant to stay there because the joy of the Lord not only is our strength, but He will use our pain for a purpose. So I think I just grabbed a hold of that in the season of my life.
Candace Nassar (11:37.57)
That’s so great. mean, reminds me of James Chapter One, “Consider it pure joy, my brethren, when we suffer trials of many kinds.” But when we’re in the midst of it, what can we do? What are some things or some action steps, maybe, that we can take to help us out of it, to get to make that switch to joy?
Hannah Crews (11:47.299)
Mm-hmm.
Hannah Crews (11:58.274)
Yeah, well I think that it’s very easy to say, “Hey, just choose joy.” It’s an easier thing to say than it is to be done. And so I do understand that. And there were times that I had to do things differently in my own life in order to actually choose that joy. It’s not that simple. It’s really not. And some people are like, “Well, yeah, you say to read the Bible every day, I already do.” But I have noticed that whenever I look in the word of God and try to understand who God is, rather than looking in the word trying to find myself, that’s when I started really saying, “This is the God that I serve? Okay, I feel way safer here. I feel like he’s gonna take care of this. If he can part the Red Sea, he can fix my little circumstance.” And so, looking for God in the Word, and looking to see who He is, started to kind of rewire my brain. And it really is specific in the Word when it says that it’s “the washing and the renewing of your mind” whenever you absorb Scripture, absorb God’s Word. So finding…
Candace Nassar (12:28.248)
Mmm.
Hannah Crews (12:55.328)
an authentic delight in pursuing the word of God every day, non-negotiable, every single day, started to do a work in me. But then sometimes I needed a little outside help. Sometimes there was a season that I needed Christian counseling. I needed not only some women mentors around me that would speak life into me and over me, and to help with not only advice, but Godly advice. Finding a counselor that is rooted in scripture, because here’s the thing, with counseling nowadays, sometimes you walk into it and you walk out worse than you were before. You have to be very picky and choosy about who your counselor’s gonna be. So finding that Godly counselor. It was so transformational for my life, for my husband’s life. It changed everything for us. But then also there might be some things that I need to cut out of my life. If you wanna be pruned, then sometimes,
Candace Nassar (13:32.312)
Mm.
Hannah Crews (13:49.472)
A little cut kind of hurts sometimes, but pruning produces better fruit. And so sometimes that means to take out some things that you’re consuming, that is causing your body to be out of whack. Maybe it’s the food that we eat. Maybe it’s drinking enough water. Maybe it’s not taking the supplements we need. Maybe it’s not doing 30 minutes of exercise every single day. God has given us certain things that we can do practically that can cause our brains to start to think differently.
Candace Nassar (14:02.776)
Mm.
Hannah Crews (14:18.75)
Exercise is a gift from God when we steward our bodies well. Then, what happens is, God has allowed our brains to release chemicals that allow us to feel and act happier and more joyful. Exercise helped. Even the music that we listen to, we have gates, right, into our spirit. We have our ear gate, we have our eye gate, and then also the things that we consume and that comes out of our mouths. But I have to watch what I watch. I have to think, “Is this thing that I’m watching edifying my spirit?
Candace Nassar (14:45.868)
Yes.
Hannah Crews (14:48.746)
Is what I am watching causing me to grow closer to the Lord or is it causing some anxiety in me that maybe I’m not even aware of?” I need to cut that out. Even the music we listen to we have to be very conscious of because who was the ultimate and the very first Worship leader ever? It was Satan. He knows exactly how to use our ear gate to draw us further from the things of the Lord. I watched this video one time where a pastor was talking to this girl and she’s just like, “Pastor, I just get into these relationships with friends or with guys and I just can’t seem to have a stable relationship. And he’s like, “Well, hey, tell me about the music that you listen to.” She’s like, “The music?” And she goes, “Well, I listen to Taylor Swift and Drake.” And he goes, “Okay, so you listen to music and artists that talk about dysfunctional relationships, that talk about degrading women?” You listen to this stuff and unbeknownst to us, sometimes it causes us to have a life similar to that. So we have to watch our gates, our ear gate, our eye gate, what comes out of our mouth. Sometimes we have to cut out our language, the things that we say and the things that we speak because life and death are in the power of the tongue. So there’s a lot of things that we can do. All we have to do is look and see which things have I not been doing as much and then start to incorporate that a little bit more, and then we have a more well-rounded joyful life.
Candace Nassar (16:02.431)
Absolutely.
Candace Nassar (16:11.128)
Yeah, and I’m sure we need to be praying through those things, right? Asking God, what is it that I can, where can I make some changes if that’s needed? I know for me, I used to be a big news person and I’ve struggled with anxiety. So lately I’ve just cut the news out, which is really crazy for me, but I’ve just had to do that. So I 100 % get what you’re saying.
Hannah Crews (16:33.294)
you
Candace Nassar (16:36.542)
And one other thing that you mentioned a couple of times in your devotional is just being grateful. And that’s such a great way to retrain our brains, right? When we want to think those discouraging negative thoughts, to just replace it, with scripture and with something we’re grateful for. So how have you done that?
Hannah Crews (16:58.478)
Yeah, I’ve had to realize too that like walking in gratitude means that I have to live as a victor and not a victim and so really asking the Lord to remove that victim mindset that I might have using the things that I’ve gone through as an excuse for my behavior and an excuse for my thinking. I’ve had to really ask the Lord to refine that in my character. So walking in victor-hood and not victim-hood has been huge and so freeing for my life, for my relationships, for my career. And we live in a society that’s constantly offended. I mean, this society is so offended by this, offended by that, inserting themselves and their perspectives and their opinions, which might not fall in line with the things of the Lord, but into what other people say, and taking offense to that as if it was even about them when it wasn’t. I mean, we have to release offense.
Candace Nassar (17:34.187)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (17:52.095)
Amen.
Hannah Crews (17:55.982)
And a pastor said clearly one day that offense is like really just putting yourself in a jail cell. The only people that you relate to and talk to are cellmates-other people that are in bondage and that are constantly just talking about offense all the time. We don’t want that for our lives. We want to break free from that. So we have to break free from the chains of offense, taking everything so dadgum personally. It might not have anything to do with us, and walking in victor-hood and not victim-hood. It’s been amazingly freeing for me.
Candace Nassar (18:19.57)
I like that. That’s really good. Victorhood, not victimhood. I can remember that. So I appreciate that. And how do you help your kids through this kind of stuff? I mean, are you talking? I mean, I’m sure you’re talking with them regularly.
Hannah Crews (18:25.836)
Yeah.
Hannah Crews (18:30.702)
Mm-hmm.
Hannah Crews (18:34.294)
Yes, same exact thing. What I love though, even though I’ve walked through some hard things in my life, I did grow up in a Christian home. I grew up in a Christian home. I went to church and all the Christian things, but it’s good to know that I had that foundation. So I do have some sort of foundation with raising my own children. But in reading the word of God for myself and in growing in my own spiritual life myself, it has allowed more wisdom to come rather than the wisdom that I had growing up. So it’s been so wonderful to implement the wisdom that I’ve gained from not only growing spiritually, but from the wisdom that I gained from the hard stuff that I walked through. So I don’t shy away from sharing my personal experiences with my kids. I don’t try to shield them from the things that I’ve walked through because I want them to know that life can get really hard and you can experience some things at school and I will tell you what I experienced. I’m very open and honest with my kids and I’ve seen, too, that it’s allowed them to feel open and honest in talking with me about their feelings, the things that they have gone through with this open dialogue that we have together. And so I’ve just noticed a huge growth in my children’s wisdom and their desire to want to refine their character or how to handle themselves in stressful or difficult situations and handle it with wisdom, or handle it with joy despite their circumstances. It’s been really cool, but I feel like communication is really key.
Candace Nassar (19:59.704)
That is so wise. I have seen so many people try to shield their kids from even things they’re going through at the moment. For sure, things in the past, and honestly, I also grew up in some trauma and shared it with my kids. We talked a lot about how the Lord helped me overcome that. And even the stride, the trials and tribulations we walked through while they were young.
Hannah Crews (20:08.334)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (20:25.898)
My kids all walk with Jesus still as adults and I just really feel like that’s a big part of it. Yeah, we can’t know what Jesus can do in our lives and other people’s lives unless we talk about it.
Hannah Crews (20:38.274)
Yeah, that’s why it’s a testimony. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. Our testimony isn’t meant to just keep right here and not to share because it’s too hard to talk about or it’s too embarrassing. No, our testimony is meant to be a blessing to other people. And we have to let our light shine. We can’t be hiding it under a bushel. So if there’s something that we’ve gone through that God has allowed us to overcome, we have to be able to share that with people openly, honestly, without shame, because God is not the author of shame. He’s also the one who has been able to pull us out of this. And if He can pull us out of this, He can pull somebody else out of it, whether that’s a friend or whether that’s your own child. So, we have to be willing to be open about that.
Candace Nassar (21:19.167)
Amen.
So good. Okay, so that is a perfect segue into you telling us about how God redeemed your own story involving your dad and your family. So why don’t you share that with us?
Hannah Crews (21:31.81)
Yes. my gosh. was so wild. That event in Austin. It was in March, I think the 9th. I think it was the event. It was. I knew it was coming up and for seven years, I hadn’t had a relationship with my father. My father painfully abandoned my mom in a divorce, I guess it was now seven years ago.
Candace Nassar (21:41.452)
Mm-hmm.
Hannah Crews (22:00.512)
And in that abandonment, he also abandoned me and really just kind of started living a different life. And it was just really, really painful. And walking through the trauma that I went through at 17 years old, when my youth pastor took advantage of me in an emotional state and stole my virginity. It was an awful thing. But my dad just really didn’t do anything about it. And when it resurfaced after my parents’ divorce, my dad didn’t want anything to do with it anymore.
And so it was just the abandonment and the neglect was just so painful for me to walk through. But regardless of that, I chose, even though I have been abandoned by my earthly father, I still have a heavenly father that will never leave me, that will never forsake me. And I’m gonna get through this despite how I feel. I’m going to, because that’s the God I serve. And so it’s been a beautiful thing to see that two days before the speaking event in Austin, I received a text message from my father after really not talking to him for seven years and the repentance that he had shown of everything that we had walked through and the regret, but also me being able to say, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. And Daddy, if you go back to remembering the God of your youth, the God that you raised me to love and to know, there will be no condemnation because you will be in Christ. And so encouraging my Daddy to go back to his roots and to walk back in the things of the Lord has allowed our relationship to start to mend. And I’m very excited about it, but that’s also the God we serve. God is a restorer despite how bad it can be, with repentance and with grace and with mercy, God can restore anything, bring beauty from ashes despite what it is.
Candace Nassar (23:39.511)
Yes.
Candace Nassar (23:47.756)
That is so great. So that is really fresh. have you? Well, I will look forward to hearing about that some more. I’m sure you will. You will be sharing what God does there. So I guess one of the things, the last thing I really want to talk about is we’re getting ready to close before we talk about your new book coming out, your new devotion. God calls us to holiness versus happiness. We hear this. I’ve heard I hear this a lot, especially in regards to marriage.
Hannah Crews (23:50.336)
Yeah, it’s really fresh.
Yeah.
Candace Nassar (24:16.864)
So how can we live that out as mothers?
Hannah Crews (24:20.066)
I think that happiness, too, is so different from joy. Happiness is a series of happenings. Happiness is only dependent on things that are temporary and fleeting. Happiness comes really quickly and then depending on the circumstances, if the rug’s pulled out from under you, you are no longer happy. And so that’s just simply not what God has called us to do. Whenever God calls us to holiness, what happens is we walk in holiness. It means that we want to be obedient to what the Lord wants us to do. When we walk in obedience, it allows us to see that, my goodness, obedience brings blessing. And when I walk in blessing, because of my obedience and my holiness, I am able to walk in more joy. And so it’s a selfless way of living. A holy way is not like this righteous thing. It’s not a religious thing. Holiness is a desire.
We want to do what’s right in the eyes of the Lord when you have that simple desire you walk in obedience you experience blessing and therefore you experience joy and that’s just simply what I’ve seen in my own life. Now will we ever reach a level of perfect holiness? No, we are human. We will make mistakes. It’s not always going to be perfect, but the constant pursuit of righteousness is what we’re called to do, not the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is fleeting and happiness is temporary.
But when we seek holiness and whenever we seek the will of the Lord, ask Him to break our hearts for what breaks His, then that changes everything. And it allows us to see things differently, act differently, think differently, talk differently, and then we’re more effective for the kingdom of God.
Candace Nassar (26:00.162)
Yeah, that’s a brave prayer, right? To break my heart for what breaks yours. But that, I love what you’re saying because we can’t, we’re never gonna be completely. That whole “happiness depends on circumstances” is so true because our circumstances are always changing. So we have to reframe that and that was very wise. So, okay, tell us you have a new book coming out, Confidence Changes Everything.
Hannah Crews (26:01.835)
Right.
Hannah Crews (26:19.404)
Yeah.
Candace Nassar (26:26.813)
And we love how you inspire women to live in God’s purpose and toss those insecurities to the curb. So give us a little glimpse into your new devotional.
Hannah Crews (26:35.534)
It’s still really heavily talking about joy at the same time because I think that we kind of forget. The Bible says the” joy of the Lord is our strength”. So, whenever we’re strong, we are confident and we’re joyful. We are confident when we’re walking in joy. It doesn’t matter what we think, how we feel, or what happens to us. We’re able to still say, “Hey, it’s okay. Everything’s gonna be fine.” So, I wrote a confidence book that changes everything, to really talk about these topics.
To talk about the topic of insecurity, comparison, envy, fear, whatever it is that is blocking us from walking perfectly in our purpose for the things of the Lord. That’s what we really ultimately want. And sometimes people think that confidence comes whenever you look a certain way. If you can just tweak this about your body, if you can just have a little more money so you can have this kind of house, that’s just simply not where our confidence comes from. And so I go through scripture and I go through stories in the Bible and even things that I’ve walked through personally, and I see what the Bible says about confidence and I see what it says as to why and how we are called to live a confident life. But our confidence doesn’t come from us, from us loving ourselves even. It comes straight from heaven. Our confidence comes from the Holy Spirit and we have a helper that can help us do that. So that’s really what it’s about and it’s so exciting. It comes out next month.
Candace Nassar (27:56.354)
That’s so good.
Hannah Crews (28:02.082)
So here pretty quick, but pre-orders are happening right now and people are buying it up like crazy because that’s what we need. Everyone wants to walk in more confidence.
Candace Nassar (28:11.032)
You know, I have the image when you’re talking about how we look to the worldly things for our confidence, especially as women, you know, to beauty and youth and all that. And I have this image of older women that I’ve known in my life. Now, I wasn’t blessed enough to have a grandmother like you did, which is an incredible gift. But older women that don’t have money, they’ve never had Botox and they’ve embraced their gray, you know, and they’re just….
Hannah Crews (28:36.119)
Yeah.
Candace Nassar (28:41.138)
so confident because they know Jesus and they are in touch with him closely every day. That is so true that when we have that joy in the Lord, then we can have that confidence.
Hannah Crews (28:55.596)
Yeah, and you know how you can tell whenever you look at someone and you can see it on their face. You don’t know their story, but the countenance of someone’s face is so, so important because we are spiritual beings. We are. And so you can tell in someone’s countenance, “Hey, that lady’s got something that I want. There’s something about that lady.” And it’s not because of her beauty. It’s not because of her physical appearance. It’s her. It’s her spirit. It’s what’s going on inside of her. So confidence comes from a real working inside of us that allows it to show on our countenance. And so it’s true. I totally agree with what you’re saying.
Candace Nassar (29:25.888)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (29:39.896)
Well, I’m so looking forward to that one and I wish you all the best with that. This has been such a great conversation, Hannah. Thank you so much for being vulnerable, sharing your heart, sharing your joy and how you find joy in your life. We all need that. So how can we find out more about you?
Hannah Crews (29:47.32)
Thank you.
Hannah Crews (29:57.868)
Yes, you can come and follow me on Instagram. That’s mainly where I’m hanging out. That’s where I’m at. So you can find me at hannahcruz.blog on Instagram. You can check out my devotionals on Amazon. I’m also on Facebook and TikTok too, but I love to hang out on the internet with my peeps, with my girls. So it’s a lot of fun.
Candace Nassar (30:16.588)
Yeah, and they’re fun. Those are fun videos. So thank you for what you do. All right, well, God bless you, Hannah. Thanks again.
Hannah Crews (30:22.616)
Thank you so much, Candace. Thank you.
