Hi there. I’m Jennifer, a Christ-following minister’s wife and empty-nesting mom of two adult children (one who married and gave us our first grandchild, Sam!) and a small white Bea-tzu who has her own hashtag (#ZoeMyDoggy). We make our home in Olive Branch, MS where my husband serves as the Discipleship Pastor at Longview Heights Baptist Church.
I enjoy coffee, family, friends, studying scripture, writing, teaching, event speaking, crafting, and hunting {for bargains on clearance and consignment}. 😉
This is my sixteenth year of blogging (as of Spring 2023) and I’m so thankful for this platform. (Wonder why it’s called “Smelling Coffee and what that means? Click here.) This blog belongs to the Lord for His use and glory, and I pray that He blesses and encourages you through it.
If you and I could share a cup of coffee together and visit face to face, there are some things I’d really love for us to talk about. I’d want both of us to leave our visit encouraged in our walks with Jesus and emboldened in our trust in Him and His purposes for our lives.
First of all, if it was a cool/low humidity day, we would sip our coffee (I’d drink hazelnut and you’d drink ___?) on the porch under the fan, or at my turquoise table in the front yard. If it was in the Spring or Summer, I’d offer you a Lemon Cookie. If it was in the Fall or Winter, I’d offer you either a chocolate chip pumpkin muffin or a yummy “6-week muffin.” As we would eat, I’d show you these dumb pictures I drew for my blog and we’d laugh at this reminder: Attitude is EVERYTHING!
Then, we’d commiserate a bit about all we have to do, and toast our coffee mugs to women everywhere while talking about this. 😉
If I could, I would look straight into your eyes and ask you this question: Are you weary today? Then I’d encourage you to Soak in these words of Jesus ~
I’d share with you these amazing principles gleaned from The Red Sea Rules.
Then hopefully you would share a bit of what’s going on in your life. I’m wondering:
Are you sick and seeking God’s healing, or praying desperately for a loved one to be healed? God is still healing! This is my story.
Are you in a place of waiting on or trusting in the Lord? I would humbly want to share with you the biggest “trust journey” of my life, and some of the lessons learned in our Journey of Trusting the Lord.
Are you so busy that you hardly have time to catch your breath? Me too! Want to know a tested secret to survival?
Are you feeling super stressed about everything right now? I gained a valuable bit of freedom when I learned to ask, “What Does It Matter?”
Do you need some wisdom in how to pray or advise someone? This is what the Lord has shared with me.
Do you need a miracle in your marriage? Getting to know the type of Man you have can really help you cope and pray.
If you’re sending your precious child off to Kindergarten or College – or anywhere in between, this may be a blessing to you as you pray for your babies: Kindergarten and Baby Moses and An Open Letter to Moms of Graduating Seniors.
If you want to know Jesus, this post gives you a simple explanation of how this can happen.
If you are needing encouragement from the Word of God, check out these verses.
If you would like to grow closer in your walk with Jesus, I would share with you some of the things I do in my Quiet Time and how you could start your own.
And, if you would like to learn a simple method of studying the Scriptures, I would share this.
As our visit continued, I would gently remind us both that One Day, We’ll be Thankful for our Difficulties in this life.
And as we wrapped up our visit, we would pray for each other, then leave our time together in laughter – as we imagined and plotted some of these pranks from Fifteen Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity.
If you had joined me on my porch in this “conversation,” it would have been an honor to share a cup of coffee and a little encouragement with you. I’m always encouraged by these reminders and by spending time with friends and Jesus.
God is faithful, my friends, and He won’t let you down. You can pour it out and lean it all on Him. He’s got you!
Much love to you~ Come back and visit anytime! 😉 You’ll find posts in all categories from my tagline: Faith, Family, Food, Fun, Life, Love, and Living in the aroma of the knowledge of Jesus Christ in every place. You’ll also see a link to a cable talkshow I hosted when we lived in the Deltal: SmellingCoffee TV. (You can find out more about SCTV here.)
Jennifer
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PS: Sometimes I’ll share free or reduced priced resources that I love. And occasionally I’ll receive a benefit for sharing those products. I’ll always be upfront and let you know if what I’m sharing is an affiliate link. Otherwise, I’m just sharing the love.
Also a few other important things that must be said/read/published:
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When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.
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Information We Collect About You
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Information You Provide To Us. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
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The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
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Third Party Use Of Cookies
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We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
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How And Why We Collect Information
The Company collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register to download a book or resources, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.
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How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.
Disclosure Of Your Information
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.
We may provide your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s asserts and/or business.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
How Do We Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions?
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.
The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Policy Changes
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Visitors’ GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, this website is not intended for your use. However, should you continue to use this site you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
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