Coffee and the Word with Faith started after we tragically lost our sweet baby sister. This is the one way I (Hope) feel like I can connect with my sister every day, as I learn to live without Faith and work through the grief I feel over losing her.
Faith loved coffee. Her love for coffee started when she was just a little girl. Our Maw-Maw would fix Faith “coffee milk” when we visited her house. Faith would sip her coffee milk out of a little plastic Tupperware cup and pretend that she was drinking coffee with the big people.
As adults, we three sisters shared a love of coffee. Any time we got together, there was always a pot of coffee brewing right along with our silliness. Sometimes we’d have a little something sweet to eat with our hot coffee. Most of the time, though, just a hot cup of coffee and conversation was all we really needed.
Faith was faithful in getting up early every morning and reading her Bible before she started her day. This was her top priority every day, and all of us knew it. If we called or texted too early, Faith either would have a delayed response, or respond back with a quick, “I’m reading my Bible. I’ll call/text you when I’m done.”
We knew this was important time for her, because it was Faith’s quiet time with the Lord. Every morning she could be found sitting in her chair in the living room, wrapped in a soft blanket, with a cup of coffee in her hand and her Bible sitting on the arm of the chair while she read from it.
Coffee and the Word with Faith is my way of keeping connected to Faith. But it’s also, in some ways, a reminder to all of us that we each need to spend that quiet time with the Lord each day. We need that connection to the One who holds our lives in His hands. My hope is that these simple thoughts every day will encourage us all to be more diligent in carving out this special time with the Lord.