Kathie Lee Gifford says she’s ‘anti-religion’ despite living a faith-driven life

Since she will be able to bear in mind, Kathie Lee Gifford has lived a faith-driven life. From childhood to maturity – and each second in between – the veteran TV host and writer has at all times leaned on her Christian roots, regardless of labeling herself as “anti-religious.”

In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital, Gifford, who’s making ready to grow to be an emcee, explains Childhelp’s Drive The Dream gala in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday – mentioned trusting God in moments of discomfort and doubt, the significance of generosity on the subject of charitable efforts, and defined why she believes faith can typically “put individuals in chains.”

“The Bible talks about prayer with out ceasing. Our lives ought to be continuous prayer, continuous dialog, dialogue and strolling with our Lord,” stated Gifford, 72. “It is not faith. I am very anti-religion. Faith places individuals in chains and Jesus takes them away. So I’ve at all times tried to be precisely the identical individual, and I’m.”

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Kathie Lee Gifford, who’s internet hosting the Childhelp’s Drive The Dream gala in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 14, talked about her faith-driven life. (Jason Kempin/Getty Pictures)

“I do not separate the secular from the non secular. I do not say, ‘Oh, I am an actress. In order that’s my secular life.’ After which I’m going, and I increase cash for Kids’s Support. No, it’s all one life, lived in accordance with God’s blessing, with His, I hate to name them commandments, His instructing, His steerage. We dwell by that,” she added.

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“Now we have a blessed life, a blessed life. And I do not, I do know I am completely different,” she added. “I am very completely different from different individuals. I’ve by no means given, I’ve ever stood in entrance of a gaggle of individuals with a script in my life. I can not even think about, I’d really feel so faux, as a result of I do not know what I’ll say, however I do know what I wish to say. And the Holy Spirit is aware of what He needs me to say, so between us we will all perceive. We get alongside nice.”

Gifford, who has dealt along with her fair proportion of grief and heartbreak, stated she has at all times appeared to the Bible as a guiding mild.

Gifford stated faith “can typically put individuals in chains.” (Danielle Del Valle/Getty Pictures for Lionsgate)

“Scripture says don’t fret about something. Don’t fret about something. I’m with you. I’ll information you. I’ll information you day-after-day of your life,” she stated. “In Him we dwell and transfer and have our being. That signifies that each nanosecond of our lives is on the service of our Lord. So I do not sleep as a result of I am previous. Not as a result of I am afraid I am doing one thing mistaken. I pray earlier than I open my mouth, after which I ask the Lord to information me.”

“Individuals say, ‘I can not imagine how courageous you’re to your religion,'” she added. “I do not care what individuals assume. I care what He thinks. And some arms, perhaps two handfuls of expensive buddies who love me. I care what they assume.”

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For a lot of her 60-year profession, the mom of two has spent numerous hours giving again. One trigger significantly near her coronary heart is Childhelp – a company created to satisfy the bodily, emotional, instructional and non secular wants of abused, uncared for and at-risk kids.

“I’ve at all times been an advocate for youngsters, lengthy earlier than I got here to Childhelp,” stated Gifford, who started her advocacy work with the group in 1996. “That is been a lifelong factor for me. God loves all little kids. And we’re all made within the picture of God, it doesn’t matter what colour we’re, regardless of the place we come from. That is all, I’ve at all times identified that. And Jesus who stated, you understand, let the little kids come to me.” do not cease them. They’re the dominion of heaven, in order that has been a driving power all through my life.”

The mom of two has devoted a lot of her life to giving again. (Mike Pont/WireImage)

‘I pray day-after-day, Lord, give me a beneficiant coronary heart. , the extra I give away, the extra He offers me,” she added. “That is what it is at all times been about. It is loopy. It really works. It is scriptural. It is a scriptural idea. You may by no means give God extra. And in case you love kids and care for youngsters, the blessing will comply with you all the times of your life.”

Regardless of her efforts to stay stoic and steadfast in religion, Gifford stated she is just human and may crumble in anger over sure issues.

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“I get indignant when individuals damage kids. I truly get indignant when individuals damage kids,” she stated. “Youngster abuse robs a toddler of their total life. It is not simply their childhood that they destroy. Kids who do not get what they want rising up, the love they want, they do not get the help… they spend the remainder of their lives in search of that help. And so they make very, very dangerous choices consequently. And so they fall deeper and deeper into holes and melancholy and addictions, and for these kids it typically ends with out a joyful ending.”

“However with Kids’s Support there’s a chance. Fairly often the ending is blessed, that kids have discovered forgiveness, that they’ve discovered religion, that they’ve discovered objective, that they’ve individuals who care about them. And I wish to be a part of individuals like that.”