Oh HEY! It's been some time & I have a short story...

Oh, hello, my friends.

I’m only a few words in and already thinking about how I missed being behind a keyboard and sharing my thoughts. It’s been a long long time and the Lord has done quite a bit in my heart.

If you’re new here, we’re gonna take things back to 2016. I had just surrendered my life to the Lord and began sharing what He was teaching me on social media & writing on my blog, which at that time was called coffee with Tae. I talked about caring for our whole person & faith in Him.

He grew me quite a bit over that first year. I had no friends around me, it was me and Jesus - as I had recently broken off some relationships (due to being around temptations) to pursue Jesus more fully. That season paid off, I learned to go to the Lord & seek Him as my friend & Savior & comforter.

I then began podcasting and using my voice - when the Lord prompted me to do this, I was like “ OH HECK NO!” To be honest, I felt like Moses - I couldn’t articulate my thoughts well, nor speak with confidence what I thought was true.

I graduated, went home, found some women who kept my creativity alive. During this time the Lord planted many other dreams on my heart & I remember wanting to run with them right then. But the Lord gave quite a firm “No.“

I lived at home (in Virginia) for a year and a half, before I came to the Lord again seeking to begin something new. It was a firm “yes“ and I moved to Kansas City. That season of my life taught me to believe with fervency that He is ALWAYS doing a good thing, no matter what things look like around me. (This gives me hope, this very day, as a certain circumstance doesn’t look the way that I want it to. Though, I know with full assurance that He is doing a good thing and I can hope in Him. Thank you, Lord.)

I get to Kansas City & for one moment thought.. “what if nothing changes“ and simply knew that the Lord was prompting me to believe that everything would change. He didn’t simply make a way, where there was truly no way, for nothing to change.

Well, now it’s been two years in Kansas City; in March 2022. I can say that I am different. I am not the Tae that I once knew. This makes me grateful for the amazing Pastor in college that shared the Gospel unashamedly. The Lord used this Pastor to lay BEAUTIFUL seeds of deep deep gospel truth in my life. I toiled in that year after college. The Lord truly refined and took away fruit that wasn’t producing in my life. & then, getting to KC getting plugged into a solid gospel centered church, undeterred by the world, my life changed. Through my mentors, church leaders, leadership community, discipleship relationship, community group, & friends made my life has been so beautifully poured into and I find myself a new woman. I am undeterred by the fallacies of the world. I am holding fast to His truth and not being so easily swayed. Glory to sweet Jesus!!

To be honest, I just hopped on my laptop and started typing, I’m real glad it ended up being these words. The Lord has taken my life and shaped and molded me into a woman who fears Him and desires solely what He has for me. Not so easily caught up in the way that the world does things, not so easily caught in my feelings, I am quite simply wrapped up in His goodness and who He is.

To the friend navigating new faith. Find solid community and ask really hard questions.

To the friend asking (BEGGING) the Lord for good solid community - make Him your confidant, best friend, know that He will always be there… & Watch. Him. Move.

To the friend in the hard place, seek Him first and your perspective will be so set on eternity that this burden of life on earth will truly be light.

To the friend long suffering and desiring something new, remember His mercy is NEW everyday & in that you can have hope for the day.

That’s all for this short story.

I love you friend.