Coffee doesn't taste good does it? Lets be honest, that's why they need to fancy it up with lots of chocolate, cream, caramel or something equally sweet. While you're working through this you believe coffee's good for a while but once you reach the brown liquid you're reminded once again how bad it really does taste. It's bearable and these additions make it more bearable and we need to make it bearable, because we don't drink it for the taste. There's the caffeine obviously and that's a definite positive coffee (why drink decaf? What's the point?) but I think it's more about image, atmosphere, feel. A journal in a coffee shop just fits so well in a neo psuedo life, late night chats over coffee denote a meaningful friendship, taking a coffee on the train is the best way to travel. It just all fits, it feels right, it looks right, it is right, it just doesn't taste right? Am I right?
I sat in a coffee shop today, precisely for the reasons listed above, and I watched people, something I love to do in coffee shops. There was a man who came in holding an umburella, an elderly man but he walked as if he was younger, he had a limp and his legs were clearly tiring, but there was still a youthful skip in his step. He looked so confident, he believed in himself. I thought to myself, he must of been something special when he was younger, look how confident he is. Then I thought, was he confident because he was special or was he something special because he was confident. Old age hadn't taken that confidence from him, was it really based on anything other than self belief. We are free, we are brilliant, not because of us but because of Jesus, belive you are brilliant because of this and you will be brilliant, trust me.
As I left I chatted briefly to the happiest frenchman you will ever meet, I want to visit france now.
That is all.
Shalom
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