Candace Cameron Bure And Heather MacFadyen Discuss Finding Purpose
By Movieguide® Contributor
In a new episode of her podcast, Candace Cameron Bure and Heather MacFadyen discussed finding your purpose and the danger of comparison.
“I think it’s really important to know what your strengths are so that you put energy into maximizing what you’re good at,” MacFadyen explained. “Instead of focusing on what maybe are your weaknesses and putting energy into them.”
Bure agreed, saying that she and her husband use that approach when raising their children. For example, if one of their children is struggling with math, Bure and her husband make sure they know that, while it’s important to learn, they shouldn’t get upset that they’re not excelling in this one area.
The pair also spoke about how some weaknesses can become strengths. MacFadyen explained that she struggles with overly-sensitive skin, something she always saw as a problem.
“When I really learned more about the Holy Spirit and had, like, a moment in prayer with the Holy Spirit,” she shared. “God kind of showed up for me on my skin. Like, my arms got warm. And it was this moment of clarity: ‘This thing that has been mislabeled and a problem is actually the place that God shows Himself to me.’”
MacFadyen continued, “It is so important to stick with our wiring and be us and try not to be someone else.”
Watch Bure and MacFadyen’s full conversation below:
Bure and MacFadyen have appeared together on the actress’ podcast before. Movieguide® previously reported on an episode where the pair talked about trusting in God’s will:
In a recent episode of the Candace Cameron Bure podcast, the actress sat down with writer and podcaster Heather MacFayden to talk about the different ways culture measure success.
MacFayden spoke about the ups and downs she went through on the road to success, from deciding not to go to medical school, to trying to figure out a career in the entertainment industry, to becoming a teacher’s aide.
Bure shared her own story of feeling lost when FULL HOUSE came to an end. She was married to hockey player Valeri Bure and felt a little “directionless” just attending his games, with no work in her own life.
The pair also said that, after having children, many people in their lives encouraged them to give up their careers.
“People can give us advice,” Bure said. “It’s not always good advice, it might not be bad advice, but it’s not necessarily the right advice. And that’s why we need to listen to God.”
“That’s the key,” MacFayden agreed. “His goal was protection of you and to keep you from feeling failure, as if we get to hold the keys to success and failure looks like.”
She went on to say that, even in a moment when she felt like she had failed, her job as a teacher’s aide led her to considering work as a speech therapist. MacFayden’s husband’s job moved the family to San Francisco and she started attending grad school and volunteering at a hospital. She was eventually moved to the speech language pathology department and offered a job there.
Bure also found her own footing, maturing as a “hockey wife” and continuing to create a life for her family as they moved around the country.
“God’s will…it’s right in front of you if you’re just, each step, surrendering enough to depend on where He’s taking you,” MacFayden shared.
Bure agreed, saying, “We are so often looking for the big thing…and it’s like, the big thing is right in front of you! It’s your dependency upon God to look to Him and listen to Him and hear Him and be obedient to Him.”
“The success comes from this humble place of fully occupying your God-given space,” MacFayden concluded.
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