By Mallory Mattingly
Before Gwen Stefani met her current husband, Blake Shelton, she didn’t know how to receive love.
“I also experienced active love, I think, for the first time when I met my husband because I had never really received active love,” Stefani said in a conversation with Jeff Cavins.
“And I don’t think I knew how to even receive it. Like, it was just like I would be so uncomfortable when someone was sacrificing or actively trying to love me through their actions by maybe sacrificing something,” the pop singer reflected.
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In that same conversation, Stefani shared how her relationship with Christ has evolved over time.
“I remember feeling like I know I can do all these things, like when I get on stage, I turn into this person, right, which is totally part of who I am. But I don’t know why or how it happens. It felt weird, and I would get really scared about it,” she explained.
She experienced “so much anxiety” just sitting down to write a song or performing on stage.
Even though she knew her “talent wasn’t coming from me,” she didn’t always know it “was coming from God.”
“I always thought it would be very arrogant to say, ‘Oh, this is my gift. This is what I’m talented at. This is what I’m good at,'” Stefani said. “But then I remember at a certain point in the last 10 years going, ‘No. God made me to do this. And if I don’t do it and share it, that’s a sin. I have to keep doing it.'”
“Even if it’s not through being in a church and talking about it, but just through sharing my story through a song — even if it’s a silly song, it says bananas in it, and it makes people happy when they go to college — whatever it is, that’s what I was made for, I guess,” she emphasized.
Along with letting God use her musical talent, she also seeks to follow Him as a mother and wife to her beautiful family.
Last year, Stefani shared the best marriage advice she’d ever received.
“Make sure you have a third party,” she told Drew Barrymore as she pointed up to signify that she was referring to God.
Stefani’s story is a powerful reminder of what God’s love can teach us about how to love and be loved by others well.
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