Hope & Easing In

The process matters most.

Hope Matters

Hey, Hope Buddies!

So, listen. I’m dropping in (I think briefly.) to say be easy with yourselves in 2025. My journey from the end of 2024 to the tippy top part of 2025 has been about personal ease. Part of it was forced, but I’ve learned something. Now, you might’ve heard something like it before, but welcome to my version. 😏

We (meaning me and some other people I know) often start the year with all kinds of intention setting, new resolutions, goal setting, etc. Well, for me, this new year has been a bit different. I began this year with the prospect of a medical procedure that I knew would drastically shift my daily morning routine. Initially, I was upset about all my hard work in 2024 (at least partially) going down the drain. Side note: When I tell y’all…the mindset shifts that took place last year…whew! Ya girl was busy and things were pulling together nicely. But, I digress.

After allowing it to sink in that there was absolutely nothing I could do differently than physically ease into this year, I began to think about some things I’d placed in my new planner that I’d like to accomplish in 2025. As I approached my procedure date, here’s what I decided. I was going to ease into my intentions and goals, as well.

Too often, we overwhelm ourselves trying to make things jump off so quickly at the beginning of the year that we lose momentum and get disgruntled easily. What this healing on the other side of the procedure has sunk even deeper in my spirit is that everything (including our goals and intentions) requires a process. And processes are typically not quick. They sometimes take years.

So, as I look at my goals and intentions for 2025, my prayer is: Process me, Lord. I pray this with the knowledge that some things will happen quickly and some things won’t. However long the process, I know I’ll be better for it. If you haven’t lived long enough to know that rushing processes yields terrible product, take my word for it and save yourselves some backtracking, headaches, and heartaches. Don’t give up; ease into it. Let the process happen. Allow the learnings to take root as you go through, as you make progress.

Hope Buddies, my prayer for you is that you be easy with yourselves and be processed but not get weary in the processing. Keep going, even if it takes longer than you thought or wanted. The process matters more than the result.

💜,

Parthenia

Coffee Matters

Surprise, Coffee Buddies, I haven’t been sipping coffee this week. I have been sipping tea. You probably expect that I would be sipping some spectacular, specially-blended, exotic tea from a tea shop. Well, here’s another surprise for you. My tea of choice this week has just been plain ol’ off-the-shelf mint tea. 😲

As a result, my body got the caffeine detox I didn’t know she needed. (I kinda did. 🤭) However, I feel better for it. Here’s one thing I always notice when I take at least a week’s leave of absence from my morning coffee: I sleep better. Even though I mostly only drink coffee first thing in the morning and drink plenty water throughout the day, the caffeine still somehow manages to impact my sleep.

Coffee Buddies, I don’t know if you’ve considered taking a break from coffee (not a coffee break 😏), but you might notice some things if you do. If you’ve ever done this let me know some changes you’ve noticed in the comments below.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this hopeletter about my life and coffee. Please share with a friend who could use a little hope or coffee recommendation.