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Coffee Chats - Tina Kadolph, Owner of Palate Coffee Brewery and Love Missions

COFFEE CHATS

with Tina Kadolph

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Hello Beautiful Ladies,

It is coffee chat time. My favorite time of the month. This month I thought I’d open a little window into my soul. My desire is to always share from my heart and to spur you closer to our Lord and Savior, who is wildly in love with you.

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Romans 8:37, NIV)

SHE’S A SURVIVOR

Her light was something greater than herself, and she knew without a doubt that this flame would never be - could never be - extinguished, even when all circumstances fell into the depths of darkness. She had lived a darkness many others have never known nor could even understand, yet she pulled herself out of the darkness and became a bright light. She was proof that God's power lived inside her.

This broken vessel that was barely holding on was drowning at times in her own disbelief. She was a beautiful example of courage colliding into the uncertainties of her own worth - a refreshing combination that the world needed more of – undeniably humble, yet with an overwhelming strength she did not see in herself.

One day she recognized herself as an unfinished piece of art. She caught a glimpse of who God was creating her to be. So, with the power of Christ and her own determination, she set out to be the woman God called her to be.

You see, she wasn't always like that. There were times she ran from God. She made mistakes. She wasn't always patient, and sometimes she got angry. There were moments the pain of her past would overtake her. She would hurt herself and she even tried to take her life.

But she would always run back to the place where she could hide. Under the kitchen table before it had all begun. A place she had once felt safe. A place where Jesus found her. A place where she learned the truth of who she truly was in Christ. Not the place where evil tried to end her life, and not the place where others caused her harm, but the place where He became her refuge.

She was a beacon of life’s pain, but she rose from the ashes as a daughter of the Most High. There were many times she couldn’t see her way, so she blindly walked towards Him. She began to trust Him, whether she could see Him or not, all the while knowing that He was pursuing her.

One day the tapestry of her life started to come into view. She learned the power within her could be shared and bring the same light to others. Her hope had been found in Jesus and she wanted others to know that Christ’s love is the way, the only way, to find complete healing. Now, she is a WARRIOR.

This girl was me. God had a plan for my life, and He has a plan for your life, too. No matter what you have been through, He has come to set the captives free. As God infiltrated my heart and revealed His plan for my life, He graciously provided me with this passage to hold on to:

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.”

Isaiah 61:1-3 (NIV)

Many blessings, my friends!

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