Coffee + Therapy∙ish

So, over a year ago I wrote a post about fulfilling God's plan and I told you guys that I didn't have the answers but that I cling to scripture and prayer. Although this is true, one thing I know that helps is making the decision and seeing that God pulls you through it. My younger sister called me the other day and she was trying to figure out her next step in her life, you see she is in the Air Force and she had the opportunity to go somewhere else and reached out to my husband and I to figure out if the decision she is making is fulfilling God's plan for her life. Immediately I thought of this post which I wrote after making a huge life decision over a year ago: marriage.  I don't have any sources to back up what I'm going to tell you, but I have experience which I firmly believe is enough. When a decision comes your way the first thing to do is pray about. Prayer is where you can talk to your Father and tell him about opportunity that has come about in your li...

It has been a while since I've posted something, to be honest it's not that my life stopped it's that despite my best efforts to come up with ideas for this blog, I caught the "laziness cold" that so eagerly comes around from time to time. Hopefully this will change as I have been selected to help one of my favorite authors launch her new book, How Can I Possibly Forgive: Rescuing Your Heart From Resentment and Regret by Sara Horn.  For those who have read my testimony which I posted a few years ago, you know that forgiveness has played an active role in my Christian life. From the second I placed my foot in the church, forgiveness was something that held me back from accepting Jesus into my heart. Why should I forgive the person who hurt me? I would tell myself that if I forgive him, that's as easy as telling him that it was okay what he did to me. It's not okay. I looked at it as minor hurt or major hurt and his transgression was under the major hurt...

I think we all have those days when we wake up ready take on the day, exuberant in a sense and then the first person we're nice to scoffs at you and in that second your mood goes from a whopping 10 to a mediocre 4. Everyone who knows me knows that I am exuberant but lately I have been feeling the opposite of that. I am blessed beyond compare, I have a family who loves and cares for me and a wonderful life here with my husband at school but there was something there that was beating me down. Yes, I think you know who I'm talking about, Satan.  I hate being held to a higher standard than everyone else. I was the second born in my family so I was consistently being compared to my older brother then to top it all off my younger brother could be called a genius by most. I learned to deal, I rebelled a lot and made a name for myself in high school that I wasn't proud of. Now that I have made a gigantic step forward from my high school days, I'm again being held to a higher ...

Who loves getting recognized for things they do? I really enjoy it but I witness others thriving off of it, is that wrong? I don't necessarily think it's wrong to enjoy recognition but what is wrong is when you are only doing things so that you can get a compliment. The bible is constantly urging us as believers to "do for others" but where do you draw the line, when are you going too far? This is where I believe we are our own worst enemy. We want to be good Christians and help out where help is needed but when we obtain multiple compliments then those compliments go to our head and then we find ourselves doing things only for recognition and not to further God's kingdom.  As I stated above, I love being complimented and it surely does help when I'm doing something that I don't enjoy doing, you know it keeps us motivated. I started this "business" if you would call it that but it's basically a cleaning business something to make ends meet ...

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope everyone brought in the new year safely and are really ready to start off 2014, well what's a better way than starting off 2014 with a nice post from myself? Exactly what I thought, lets! Who made a resolution last night? Most of us do, examples, "this year I'm going to start working out" or "I'm going to eat healthier" well did anyone say "I'm going to get closer to God" or "I'm going to start going to church" or how about "Forgive me for my sins, Jesus come into my heart"? If so, great! Welcome aboard the Jesus train but for those who are half way on board what are you waiting for? It was 2011 when I set my New Years resolution to start going back to church, BEST DECISION EVER, for me, but my point is sometimes that's all it takes.  There are people who view New Years resolutions as lame or pointless but they're only those things when people say them but never act on them...

Who finds themselves getting a little selfish or dissatisfied around Christmas? Or after you open your presents and find you didn't get exactly what you wanted and you're upset? I definitely found that happening to me but especially this year. As most of you know I got married in August so this was our first Christmas and earlier in the month I suggested to my husband that since we don't have a whole lot of money that we should just fill each other's stockings with candy and one gift of ten-ish dollars, he thought it was a good idea and we went ahead with the idea. I bought for both of us a huge bag of a variety of chocolates, some dove chocolate for him and a new travel mug. Looking at it I kept thinking, "this isn't enough" and "he's not going to like it". My Christmas' growing up were super nice, and I got many presents from my parents nothing too expensive but I opened up a lot of gifts and before me was one mere item for the man I lo...

Some of you may be thinking that this post will be me, Chelsea, proclaiming that the reason for the season is Jesus Christ, false. That is only a small portion of what I will be discussing, although it is true there is so much more to that statement than sharing a photo on Facebook.  Who gets irritated when you see one of your "friends" share a photo that is emphasizing Jesus Christ but you know that this person is so far from Christianity it isn't even funny? I know I think that way far too much, and that is so incredibly wrong of me. That is judgement and especially around this time of year we judge others too much. I have added this to my list of imperfections which I need to work on everyday until I reach heaven and I encourage all of you to make a list right now of imperfections that you need to work on. So, moving on from that tangent, "The Reason for the Season" usually means that instead of getting worked up and stressed out over Christmas gifts and pa...