Introducing Death + Revival + Coffee

Welcome to Death + Revival + Coffee where we help create space for the toughest parts of your story. This first episode is a quick intro to D+R+C & my heart behind it. It's time for some honest conversations about living life and finding hope in the shadow of death. 

Transcript

Hey friend, I'm so happy you've landed here. I'm Joanna, and this is Death + Revival + Coffee, where we help create space for the toughest parts of your story. 

They died. That is hard, and so, so heavy. 

Maybe you're left with questions. Questions like, “What do we deal with all of their stuff?” or “How do I manage the physical effects of grief and trauma?” or “How do I pray when I have felt completely ignored by God?”

I'll never claim to understand what you've been through; each experience with death is as unique as the person who died. My experience with death involves our first child dying at just five days old, my mother dying of cancer less than a year later, and then miscarrying our third child in the fall of 2020.

Death + Revival + Coffee is a conversation with a friend familiar with death who doesn't hide from your reality. 

Envision us at a coffee shop sitting across from each other with our favorite cozy drinks, having a conversation that would cause anybody eavesdropping to raise an eyebrow. 2020 left me longing for these meaningful conversations, so I decided to bring them to you. 

Death + Revival + Coffee offers tools for your grief survival kit. 

I pray that our conversations encourage you and point you to hope. 

I've been meditating on Ephesians 1:16–18 as I've been pulling this podcast together, and it so perfectly sums up my heart behind this: 

“I have not stopped to giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you."

Friend, I hope you'll join me right here, wherever you listen to podcasts, every two weeks for some griefy conversation. 

Death happens, but we're still here, and that is far from easy. 

So grab your favorite cozy, and likely caffeinated drink, settle in and let's help each other figure out how to live.