Coffee and Courage: Morning Moments and thoughts

Well, it sure has been a while, hasn't it? Life has been life-in, and I have just been busy with the every day things to do any blog posts but I felt the urge to do one today just to get my fingers on the keyboard and let whatever flows come.

As you all have seen I've done a little refresh on my website and I've added in for my new Podcast, Fresh New Faith Podcast. It's been an amazing adventure so far and I have loved venturing out and doing something new that I've had in the back of my mind for a long time. What's funny about it though is, when I wanted to do the podcast before, it was before my walk with Jesus and before I had the faith and relationship I have with Him now. I truly believe He waited to put doing this podcast on my heart until I was in a position where I'd be speaking about holy things instead of worldly things. Because, let's be honest, when you're in the world and not the word, you're words are not always the best. I had a hard time with cussing, I spoke like a sailor half the time, and I'm thankful that the courage to do my podcast didn't start until Jesus came in and cleaned me up!

In other news, I feel like there has been such a wave of seasons I've gone through in the last several months. It's like I've just been going from hard season, to waiting season, to good season, and content season. The hard seasons sure seem to last the longest though, don't they? At one point a few months back, I remember telling a fellow sister in Christ that's in my life group, that I had been praying for God to just ease up 1 of the many things that were weighing heavily on me. And without any question, what seemed like the next week, God lifted up every single burden I was carrying on my shoulders. Because He is just such a gracious and giving God, He is my Father and He doesn't want us to carry our burdens alone. That is the whole point. He wants us to experience a life with Him by our side. In one of my episodes, I spoke about how I grew up without a dad in my life, and how with God, even though I can't reach out and hug him physically like I could an earthly Father, it's even better knowing I have a Father as mighty and as powerful and strong and loving as the God that is our Father.

With summer about to be starting, I can't help but just feel a sense of calm and ease about it. Last summer was the first summer I truly enjoyed. I really felt like I saw the world differently after coming to Christ. I enjoyed my time with my family more, time outside on the boat, swimming in our pool, cooking out...all of the fun summer activities that I did like before but maybe didn't enjoy as much because I was too consumed with anxiety, anger and depression. It's just one of the many many different reasons I will be eternally grateful for Jesus reaching down and lifting me up out of the water as He did with Peter.

In my next episode on my podcast, I'm going to be speaking about mental health. It's a tough, touchy subject but I just want to go at it from a stand point of "I know, because I was there". Last week when I dropped my last episode, I put a question on my Instagram story about what people would like for me to talk about, and one person said that they want me to speak about different people in my life and their journeys to Jesus or their journey with me to Jesus, and the other one was mental health. I just felt a relation so much to the mental health suggestion that I'll be doing that one first. I can't wait for you all to hear it and I pray that when you listen to it, it will be able to help at least 1 person.

I appreciate you all for your continued support and I definitely plan on trying to do my blog monthly or even bi-monthly, whatever feels right. Go out and spread the love of Jesus!

-Tarrah