WOF conference

I just finished attending the Women of Faith Conference in Washington, DC and it was amazing.  One thought that popped up in my mind was, "is God leading me toward becoming a speaker for events of this magnitude?  It would certainly be a lot more faces looking back at me."  A bit of a chuckle started to stir inside and I said, "Okay, so much for my social anxiety.  You will do what you will with my life, Lord!  I am excited about whatever you have in store for my life.  Be it on a small scale or large, I am going to tell as many people as I can about all that you have done for me and I will honor you and give you all the glory.  Now if that is the kind of person that they need on that stage... then God - I'm your gal!!!"

Please lift me up in prayer as I continue to make moves toward more and greater speaking opportunities.  Please pray with me that I will always remember that my qualifications are simply what God has done for and through me... not anything that I've done for myself.  Please pray that I continue to be humble, that I keep my heart and mind open to growth opportunities, that I use my mouth to bless and uplift people, to challenge and grow people... and that the words that come from my mouth are from Him.  I don't know where this journey is taking me... all I know is that if Jesus is in the boat... I'm getting in!!!!

But You See Three Poem

But You See Three
By: Stephanie Josiah
8/3/2013 @ 11:35pm

Social anxiety takes on
New meaning
Three children swinging
From my arms but

Strangers
... Always ask

How many...

"How many children do you have?"

Instantly the walls tumble
Like drying linen
The fresh flesh wound about
My breast uncovered

Spotlights glare down on
broken sternum and
Busted arteries
Every hero has a weakness

The cape on my back
Now a flag of surrender
I am no champion
I lost my gooey-cheeked toddler

How do I start to explain
When I answer "four"
But you see
Three?

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Christmas tree is up, and Ishypoo's stuffed POOH BEAR got to do the star tree topper. If it wasn't so funny to make a stuffed toy do that... I would have fallen apart. Instead my eyes ached and filled up. Our 3yr old son's first Christmas in Heaven...

Tree is up, now what? What makes this Christmas feel "right"? The couples in Connecticut... I know what the rest of their week had in store, the ar...

rangements... The shopping for their child's burial dress, suit, tie, and shoes (instead of Christmas party outfits)... Flowers, child-sized casket, burial plot, cards that speak to feelings that can't be expressed fully enough. The gulp caught in the throat and the hole where the heart was beating. The scratch to the scalp, can't make sense of the fact that the order of things is reversed. "I raised this child, prayed for this child, nurtured, fed, clothed, ran to the rescue of this dear child... Now gone too soon!! Too soon!!!"

I'm counting on God to birth a miracle once more, inside of all of us. True peace, hope, and joy... At a time when the words seem far more than foreign.

Come to our rescue, Father, we are lost and we are hurting.

I just started working on Ink Baby #3!!


I'm really excited to do a second part of my very first book, BITTER. I don't want to reveal too much too soon, but this book gives an update on where my first book left off, with just as much... if not more... Stephanie humor in it :0) I will start my illustrations and cover design soon. I absolutely love this, I was made to do this!!!


Love,

Steph