Coffee + Therapy∙ish

I have come to realize that when you make time for Jesus, your every day life is happier and less stressful. I remember on my morning and afternoon drive to and from work I could physically feel the weight of what seemed the world on my shoulders. The stress that inhabited my life felt like it was at a breach. My Church has Bible studies that are called Community Groups and what we are doing is going through books. I was attending one on Saturdays when I could but a few weeks ago I received a call that another Community Group I had signed up for was about to start and this one was going through the book of Jeremiah. I signed up for this class based on the simple fact that I had never read Jeremiah. I had read verses when they came up in sermons or devotionals but I had never studied the book. So I signed up, completely unaware of what I was signing myself up for. The moment I received this phone call I began dreading this class only because now I don't have a choice of what ser...

On February 13th, 2016 my husband and I welcomed to our family a little boy whose name is Elisha Kenneth. It was in that moment when everything changed for me. I was now and forever a Mom - capital "M". One day I was driving to Church, same route I always take and I look in my rear view mirror at my son who knows of no malice he is simply sleeping away in his car seat with the sweetest and calmest face of content. In that moment it dawns on me. I love him so much. I remember the feeling I had when I found out he was a real thing. The feeling I had the moment I told his Father about him. The feeling I had when I saw him for the first time. The first time I heard his heartbeat. The time we found out he was a he. The moment when we walked through the hospital doors knowing that when we walked out we would have a baby boy. I had a rush of one feeling all in that moment while driving -- LOVE . And what followed afterward, nothing but sadness. Sadness and ...