Doing Life in a Coffee Shop
The coffee shop.
This establishment has been successful, well loved and a staple hang out in the United States.
Pretty much anywhere you go you will be able to find a coffee shop. Meeting a friend to catch up? You grab coffee. Need to find a comfortable place to plug in your ear buds and study? The library might do, but nothing beats the aromatic delight of espresso, caramel and frothy milk while you are studying.
Whether it is Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Caribou, or a local independently owned community staple, you don't need to love coffee to make use of a coffee shop.
The next time you go to one, take a moment to look around you and listen. You will see people interviewing for a job, or sitting on their own in a corner engrossed in a telephone conversation or a good book. You will see two friends laughing together, but more often than not you will find two friends listening to each other, their hands cupped over their mug or to-go cup, taking in what they are hearing and listening empathetically.
You may also see an awkward first date. In my single years, I always preferred to meet guys that I met online for coffee for a first date, that way I could make an easier exit if one of us wasn't "feeling" it. :) And if it did go well, we could go else where for dinner or just enjoy chatting with each other over another cup of coffee.
You may also see a nursing student poured over her text books, depending on caffeine and the time on her side to ace her final exams. Or maybe you will see someone who is completely zoned out, staring into space and enjoying the space to just think and drink her java.
The point is, we do life in coffee shops.
We comfort each other, celebrate each other, listen to each other. We better ourselves, motivate ourselves, restore ourselves.
Those painful moments of life.... sharing with a friend that he served divorce papers, realizing that yet another month has gone by and the pregnancy test is still negative, taking in a rejection letter for an interview that you thought went really well.
Hot coffee is comforting to me, and helps me to "be well with my soul" in accompaniment with the Holy Spirit. I simply don't know what we would do without the coffee shop.
This establishment has been successful, well loved and a staple hang out in the United States.
Pretty much anywhere you go you will be able to find a coffee shop. Meeting a friend to catch up? You grab coffee. Need to find a comfortable place to plug in your ear buds and study? The library might do, but nothing beats the aromatic delight of espresso, caramel and frothy milk while you are studying.
Whether it is Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Caribou, or a local independently owned community staple, you don't need to love coffee to make use of a coffee shop.
The next time you go to one, take a moment to look around you and listen. You will see people interviewing for a job, or sitting on their own in a corner engrossed in a telephone conversation or a good book. You will see two friends laughing together, but more often than not you will find two friends listening to each other, their hands cupped over their mug or to-go cup, taking in what they are hearing and listening empathetically.
You may also see an awkward first date. In my single years, I always preferred to meet guys that I met online for coffee for a first date, that way I could make an easier exit if one of us wasn't "feeling" it. :) And if it did go well, we could go else where for dinner or just enjoy chatting with each other over another cup of coffee.
You may also see a nursing student poured over her text books, depending on caffeine and the time on her side to ace her final exams. Or maybe you will see someone who is completely zoned out, staring into space and enjoying the space to just think and drink her java.
The point is, we do life in coffee shops.
We comfort each other, celebrate each other, listen to each other. We better ourselves, motivate ourselves, restore ourselves.
Those painful moments of life.... sharing with a friend that he served divorce papers, realizing that yet another month has gone by and the pregnancy test is still negative, taking in a rejection letter for an interview that you thought went really well.
Hot coffee is comforting to me, and helps me to "be well with my soul" in accompaniment with the Holy Spirit. I simply don't know what we would do without the coffee shop.
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