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A Piece of Heaven & Precious Embrace

A Piece of Heaven

First we have Trina's story...

Trina Wembly dreamt of owning a Christian coffee house for years –a Godly place where people could enjoy a good meal, and entertainment that wasn’t offensive. A Piece of Heaven is 10916218899?profile=originalthat dream.

Jared Larou, the construction foreman who helps design and build the coffee house, is a wounded soul with a soft heart. 

Once the coffee house opens, Trina and her partner, Laura, work day and night. From coffee in th
e morning, to gourmet dinners in the evenings, it’s a heavy load. Plus Trina performs most nights as the entertainer at the coffee house.

 

After working together and building her dream, Trina longs to be more than just friends with Jared, she just hopes that’s what God wants for her too.

...and now there's Laura's story...

Precious Embrace
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Laura Senton has found peace and happiness, knowing she’s right where she belongs, running her own kitchen at A Piece of Heaven, a Christian coffee house in Pingree, MD. Being partners with her dear friend, Trina, she has carved out a niche and counts her blessings daily for being able to do something she loves doing. When the sins of her past are brought to mind by the appearance of Sean Laylor, her teenage crush, Laura tries to hide from Sean, as well as her own feelings.
At first not recognizing Laura because she changed so much, Sean is at a loss as to why she tries to avoid him. He has no idea of what Laura went through years ago, or how she felt toward him, but he still feels a share of the guilt for her past once he learns  some of the choices she made.
Both covet the memories of their time together, but sins of the past can be a tough hurdle to get over.
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Nothing Experienced Is Ever Lost

 I lost the roots of my homeland to gain the wings of the world. Nothing experienced is ever lost because our greatest pain is always lighting the path towards our highest aspirations.

An essential aspect of life is to experience joy. Just as it is essential to have contrast. Contrast is often experienced as pain. Especially if we are resisting the situation. Pain is obviously unpleasant, but the underlying messages are actually our greatest guides and teachers.

Take a look back on your lessons learned, you might discover that many of them were birthed through our buddy-in-disguise, 'pain'.

For me, life seems to have been all about learning that I was clutching and far too physically attached. Attached to my idea of how a loving home ought to be. Attached to people like my dad who was no longer around after the divorce. Attached to my baby brother, my-heart-life-raft, who was so rudely yanked out of my life during the crumbling of our family home. Too-attached-to-the-physical lessons became bigger and more painful as I emotionally shut down after each occurrence. I refused to even consider accepting the gifts concealed and wrapped within each painful package.

Ultimately I lost my homeland, the country that I loved so dearly, Rhodesia. I also lost my horses, my Siamese cat, my police-trained dog, my home and my lifestyle when I became a refugee from Mozambique after it became Communist. I was one of Africa's broke, broken, walking wounded. But as Nietzsche so aptly put it, "That which does not kill me serves to make me stronger".

I've been given many gifts from my painful life lessons. Gifts of understanding and compassion. Gifts of awareness and intuition. Most of all, I have come to realize that nothing in life is permanent so best enjoy the experience to the fullest while you can. One day at a time.

Finally the most liberating gift of all is the discovery that we are all Infinite Beings with the ability to experience life as a brilliant Soul Adventure.

"To believe that you are only the body, is like being lost in a foreign land. Our true homeland is Infinity, Omnipresence. Here on Planet Earth we are only visitors - Soul Adventurers on a brief excursion."  - LuxmiH Eve-Lyn Forbes

 

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