Hill Country Thoughts - A Coffee Cup Ministry

One of the things that I have observed over the last three years, as I look back at all the events of my life is how much God is in control, even when I could not see it because at the time it appeared that my life was literally being torn apart, when in reality it was being rebuilt, refocused and brought into alignment!

What appeared to be destruction, was the burning away of all that was not of the Lord. To be cleansed and removed from me, those things that I had allowed to clogged up the system, that the focus was on me, on what I was doing, on “my ministry.”

The focus was shifted from me, to the Lord!

It appears that I have lost everything but I haven’t. In losing everything, I have gained that which was important. The Father has changed my life more in the last three years, than in the last 50 plus years and now I am becoming what He wants me to be, a pen in His hand, to share the reality of the Hope that is within, that we have in the Lord.

Is that not what this is all about? About the Lord, the life changing, eternal gift from God, that has brought us back into relationship with Him. That like the prodigal son or daughter, we come running back to the open arms of a loving Father, who allowed us to go through what we have in order to bring us into the place He wanted us to be.

As I have shared often, if I had not gone through what I have, I would not be where I am now. The other day, in talking with Jodie, my former wife, giving her an update on our son Joshua in China, I shared with her, that I would not want to go through this again, but I would not be doing what I am doing now.

I have been amazed at how much as taken place over the last two years here in Kennesaw, Georgia. Who would have thought going to Starbucks, would be the birthing place of another aspect of Hill Country Thoughts called Coffee Cup Thoughts.

Going to the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference is something I will not forget for a very long time. An event that I look forward to returning to again. While there I met so many people, old friends, that I have only met online or on the phone.

I met so many authors, publishers, writers of all sort, net working together. The main thing that I came away with from this conference was the love that so many of them had for the things of the Lord and wanting to share it through their writings, wither fiction or non-fiction, romance or sci-fi, poetry, whatever, to share an aspect of life or insight or understand of the Lord, of life, of how people dealt with it and the results.

The new website will be writing related, about authors and books, reviews and hopefully interviews. It is all in the birthing process so please keep Coffee Cup Thoughts, as well as Hill Country Thoughts in your prayers as the Lord brings it forth. That both sites will be a source of encouragement to others. 

We all have a coffee cup ministry. We can sit down and share life and hope over a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and plant seeds of hope in others.

Indeed out of the ashes, life has sprung forth and as the Lord spoke to me a long time ago, it is the time of blossoming, of coming forth into the fullness of what we have been called to!

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