Television icon Kathie Lee Gifford had fun kicking up her heels with Dr. Oz but also got serious discussing how faith has the ability to heal us from grief and obstacles that medicine cannot, and about her own faith and how it has guided her throughout, especially after the passing of her husband Frank.
Here’s some:
On how faith plays a role in everyday life, Kathie Lee Gifford imparts: “It should impact why did I decide to come on Dr. Oz. It should impact who am I going to have lunch with today? What am I going to eat? You know, those kinds of–and it’s not like you’re sitting around and you’re getting crazy about, it’s just faith becomes such a natural rhythm in your life and it has for me since I was 12-years-old.”
On how she has dealt with the passing of her husband, Kathie Lee Gifford shares: “So there’s a wonderful scripture that talks about how sorrowful yet rejoicing, uh, in–in the New Testament and that sometimes is just a concept to you until you are actually in deep sorrow, but still able to rejoice. I found my husband that morning and he had a look like this on his face. I know without a shadow of a doubt that my husband saw Jesus and Jesus took his breath away.”
On the difference between happiness and joy, Kathie Lee Gifford explains: “Here’s the difference that people don’t understand. Happy, I think, comes from the word happenstance. I’m big into what words mean. That means circumstances. That means you’re going to be happy if the sun came out or you’re going to be happy if you got that raise or happy if you met the love of your life. Those are things that are, um, dependent on your circumstances. God has a better plan for us and it’s called joy. It’s called joy and that nothing that happens to you is going can attack the joy because it’s forever and it’s real.”
On how Hoda Kotb dropped everything to be by her side, Kathie Lee Gifford said: “And, you know, after Frank went to be with the lord, one of the first people I called, of course, was Hoda. It was her birthday and she was on a plane flying from, New Orleans and I didn’t want her to get to land and then hear it from someplace else. You know, I spent most of my morning that day calling people that needed to hear it from me and so did my children. And Hoda immediately said, I’m landing and I’m coming to your house. And I said, No you’re not Hoda, please. It’s your birthday. I’m thinking no–absolutely not Hoda woman. Well, the minute she landed she went straight to my house. I turned around and there she is. I said, I’m so glad you didn’t do what I told you to do.”