Hi there, thank you for stopping by and reading my very first blog! I’m so excited to welcome you and write words that will always encourage you. I know I may not get a chance to meet you in person, but I pray the words I share would reach you and touch you wherever you find yourself in this season.
So sit back, get cozy and imagine it’s me and you chatting over a cup of coffee.

It was in 2018 that I remember writing in my journal on a long car ride to my brother’s soccer tournament. I had all of these hopes and dreams, and this brewing excitement to discover more of what God was doing in me. I always had a special love for coffee and thought about opening my own café in the future, but on that day I felt led to journal about creating a virtual coffee shop, a website where I could write and spread God’s word! I prayed that it would be a space for everyone to visit, a place where doors were always open and the aroma of coffee could be imagined. I never stopped thinking about this online coffee house I would have, and the platform it would be to share my faith and my love for a good latte.

I don’t know if you’re like me but I can get filled with so many exciting ideas, but the thought of starting it just makes me want to forget it. I knew there was a part of me that wanted to step out and just begin, but there was a bigger part of me that felt there was still much work to be done, and challenges to overcome. So I kept that dream tucked away, and spent time writing and working on what was in front of me. Coffee shops became more of not just where I would write, but where I would discover all the beauty and talents God had stored within me. I would sit alone with my coffee every day and hold back tears because I knew God was sitting with me. I would worship, look out of the window and pray for people walking by and when He would lead me I would speak and encourage those sitting close by. My life has always been about pouring out what God has poured in me…every time the barista would pour my coffee, God would pour out His glory, that’s just how it went! Lol!

As I write this to you today, my eyes are filled with tears of joy because I am standing in the place I used to dream about. Once upon a time I thought I was going to just have a coffee blog, and now I  see all along God was using this little dream of mine to birth something so much greater, and answer the deep and hidden desires I would have never felt qualified for. Wow..to think my virtual coffee house is now an actual shop!!? A place where I can offer encouragement and my favorite thing in the world?! God is so faithful!!
I want you guys to know that this didn’t happen overnight, but everything it took to get me here is something I will always praise Him about.

Surely, God doesn’t forget His promises. I believe the dreams you have carried in your heart, He will carry out to completion. Even when you push those hopes away, remember He has a way, when those prayers seem to be going unanswered, He will respond and show you His favor! God is so intentional! He means it when He says He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or imagine, according to the power that is at work within us (Ephesians 3:20).
I hope this encourages you today to take that leap of faith, to start what God placed in your heart, and find comfort knowing that your part doesn’t have to be perfect, because He promises to perfect it.

God loves you a latte,
Zion Tesfaye