For acclaimed TV host, singer, actress and author Kathie Lee Gifford, it’s all about who she is, not where she is.
The former NBC host of the Today show in the US rails against the notion of Hollywood being a “godless place”, becoming more determined to be “a light in the darkness”.
Gifford, 70, (pictured above, inset) told the Whoa That’s Good Podcast: “People try to say Hollywood is secular … there is such a godless world there. But God is everywhere.
“There might be people that don’t know God and don’t know that he loves. But there is no godless place on this planet. There’s no godless place in this cosmos and all of creation. God, the Creator, is everywhere.”
That includes Hollywood, the four-time Emmy winner stressed.
“Ever since I entered this industry in a full-time way when I was 17, the Lord was very, very clear with me and he said: ‘Never separate the secular from the spiritual. You live in my world’.”
She added: “I knew every time I walked on a set, a recording studio or a stage, or a Baptist church, or Israel or whatever – it was God’s world. And I got the privilege of being in it and walking in it with Yeshua, Jesus.
“And he would be with me whether I was talking to Jay Leno or Billy Graham. I had to be authentically a child-of-God Kathie Lee wherever I went.
“When I started separating those two is the only time I ever got in trouble.”
Given her relationship with God, there was never any chance of Gifford going anywhere without him.
She explained: “I don’t have a religion; I have a relationship with a living God, which is more than a 24/7 situation.”
She’s now dedicating her life to telling biblical stories in new ways, including producing and starring in Christmas film The Way that was streamed on faith-based platform Pure Flix.
“Nobody in the Bible ever retired,” Gifford told The Christian Post. “They died doing what God put them on this earth to do.
“When you are on fire for the kingdom of God, that will stay with you until the moment the Lord takes the breath from your body and takes you into his arms. And that’s the way I want to spend the rest of my life: refired, not retired.”
