Yesterday, I was introduced to a great new coffee shop here in Rockford. Katie’s Cup has a friendly, downtown atmosphere, free wifi, and a very knowledgeable barista staff. The reason I bring up that last point is because Katie’s passed “the Starbucks test.” I entered a similar upstart coffee shop in Rockford, and tried to order the same way I would at StarBucks, and they had no idea what I was talking about. That was not the case with Katie’s. I ordered, and they knew exactly what I wanted. Katie’s Cup is located in downtown Rockford at 502 Seventh St., right across from the Amcore Bank.

Here is another poem written the day before I entered Rockford and began my pilgrimage that brought me to where I am today. Titled “Nothing in Me.”

Nothing in me that He would love,
Yet Loved He anyway,
So great His love! He sent His Son,
To take my sin away!
Dieing a death that was my own!
Suffering for my sin!
Taking upon Himself MY CROSS!
His loss is all my gain.