Conversation Cafe

02/13/2024

📣 Hey everyone!!

We are doing a fundraiser yard sale in a couple of weeks. And I'm reaching out to all of you to ask two things:

1️⃣ Look around your home or garage to see if there is anything you need to purge and that you would be willing to donate to our sale. You can drop off at the church on Tue/Thur/Fri or you can call/text me and we will figure out a pick up. 😁

2️⃣ COME OUT AND SHOP!! There will be lots of treasures for you AND you will get a sneak peak at our newly renovated Cafe. (More on that later 😉)

Hugs 🤗 and lots of love ❤️
Cristina 😘

01/12/2024

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It seems as if I blinked and the entire year passed me by. I remember starting this page and YouTube channel with high hopes and even higher expectations. Life threw me some curve balls. Some of them took me out for an inning or two (that's baseball analogy ⚾️😉). But I'm still in the game!!

Throughout the past year, as I walked through some trials, I would hear myself say: 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙚, 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙢.

Man, it's hard to remember "it's not about me" when I'm struggling with sickness and chronic health conditions that leave me imbolized at times 🙄. I want to shove that saying down someone's throat in that moment. Especially when it comes out of my mouth 🥴. Because saying it does not make me feel better in the moment. 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨. And I do feel better after that. 🙏🏼😊

However, there are those moments when I'm empty and I need to be filled and just saying "it's not about me, it's about Him" doesn't make it better. Honestly, in that moment it just sounds and feels hollow.

There is a beautiful upside to it all. God understands. He loves us in our emptiness. He REALLY loves us in our emptiness. Why? Because in those moments, if we allow Him, He can fill us with all of Himself because He now has an empty container.

I am beginning to embrace, although not gracefully at times, the beauty of emptiness. There is purpose behind the withdrawals. God cannot fill an already overflowing vessel. He can only use one that has been emptied. Jesus wants to empty us of all the burdens we carry. Empty us of the resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness, frustration, unresolved anger and unmet expectations we placed on others. Sometimes the weariness we feel is because we are carrying "stuff" that we were never meant to carry, all because we want to control the outcome. When we should be running 🏃🏻‍♀️ to give it all to Him so we can be free. 🙌🏼

Is there any "stuff" from 2023 you need to give to Jesus so you can be emptied, then ready to be filled with His love, forgiveness, compassion, mercy and joy?

Let's make 2024 the year of emptiness. Who's with me?? 🩷

01/27/2023

A day late but NOT a dollar short. 😉 Please show your girl some love ❤️ and go subscribe 👉🏼📱. When I hit 50 subscribers I can go live on YouTube. Yippee!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Not sure what an intro video is supposed to look like. Hopefully you will hear my heart and join me on this journey. We are gonna laugh, cry and learn some t...

01/24/2023

Heyyyyy!!! 👋🏼 I am so excited that you are here! 🥳

Welcome to 𝐂𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚!!

Can I just be transparent here? God put the desire to do a YouTube channel or something like that on my heart about three years ago. I pushed that nudge from Him away. Probably my 😍/😡relationship with social media but we’ll talk about later. 🫤

He would send SEVERAL people over the next three years confirming the word He spoke to my heart. 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤.

Do you know the real reason why I ignored God’s prompting?

𝙄. 𝙒𝘼𝙎. 𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙍𝙀𝘿.

More than that “I” felt I nothing to offer. Everyone and their mama has a YouTube channel and a podcast. Who am I? That’s what I kept telling God. This was His response.

𝙄. 𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙎𝙀. 𝙔𝙊𝙐.

We all have something to offer. A gift 🎁, or many, that needs to be shared with world 🌎. God is teaching me how to share my gifts. I am still scared but I’m doing this thing scared. 🫣

So if you want to know what to expect on this page and the channel keep reading. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This is the place where we have real, raw and relatable conversations about life, faith and our favorite flavor of coffee ☕️. There will be laughter 😂, tears 😢, “real talk” honesty 🤨 and a WHOLE lot of love ❤️ shared. And there may be a few wisdom nuggets thrown in that I’ve picked up along the way 🤷🏼‍♀️.

So pour yourself a cup of coffee, get comfy in your favorite chair or sofa……and enjoy the conversation!