Coffee
I have a friend who is very particular. He wants things just so. If something doesn’t meet his standards, he will complain about it. Endlessly.
He has yet to have a decent cup of coffee.
I learned this going to all of the big-name coffee places with him. Then, when none of those measured up, going to all of the most micro-batch, one-off, exclusive coffee roasters you could think of.
It was an amazing tour of the coffee of Chicago. And it was that tour, accompanied by his endless soundtrack of complaints, that showed me what was wrong with the coffee.
Him. He was what was wrong with the coffee.
It wasn’t that he had exquisite taste. It was that he was exquisitely skilled at finding fault.
Because he was busy finding fault, he missed out on some of the best coffee I’ve ever had.
I know this, because I went back to some of those places without him. When I didn’t have someone telling me how awful they were, it turns out they were great.
It easy to laugh at someone who does this to themselves. Piling up preconceived notions and finding fault, until they keep themselves from enjoying…pretty much anything.
But it’s not just the dynamic that we see playing out in today’s Gospel, with its violent rejection of Jesus.
It’s a trap that all too many of us fall into with our relationship with God.
We miss out on God’s best for our lives, because it doesn’t meet our preconceived notions. We keep ourselves from being able to enjoy all that God has given us, because we’re too busy finding fault.
It’s not that God isn’t pouring out His grace upon us. It’s that we are so wrapped up in our ideas about God, about how things have to be, that we aren’t able to receive what God is giving.
When we get stuck like that, it’s easy to blame God.
Even though we’re what’s wrong with the coffee.
When we get stuck like that, the only cure is God’s grace. To ask God to take away our love of fault-finding.
To ask God to give us a desire for Him, not our ideas about Him.
Today’s Readings
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Why can’t I find any posts on here tagged “figure skating” from actual figure skaters? It’s all people simping over Asian guys who skate and anime guys who skate :/
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