Coffee Conversations!!
Sure seems like an appropriate title since I spend a fair amount of time at Starbucks. Actually my son-in-law, Sheridan, gave me the title for this post.
The time that I spend at Starbucks is a very important aspect of my life. It is a place where I have met a lot of awesome people. People who have all ready had an impact in my life. Who have encouraged me in my walk with the Lord.
Coffee conversations are very important. They are the times that we can sit back, relax and be ourselves. A time that we can be real with one another. To be open, to share, to give out of what has been given us!
There is something about sitting around a table with friends and just sharing and talking, laughing and that is what often happens at Starbucks. I never know who I am going to run into each day. Each day is an adventure.
I am thankful for my coffee friends. For the Saturday morning fellowship at 06:30, when six to eight men get together for fellowship and coffee and encourage one another in the faith. Building each other up. That is really awesome.
It is a blessing when I run into my fellow ministers, Ron, Richard and Todd. They each are a blessing and I am blessed that I can lift them and their ministries to the Lord. I have had coffee with fellow writers and bloggers such as Sally, Vicki, and Paula.
Another awesome thing is that Dave and Lisa, my friends from Ohio, will be moving to Douglasville, Georgia, about thirty-eight miles from Kennesaw. Dave will be pastoring a church. Lisa is the Moderator and list mom of the Christian Writers Group that I Co-Moderate. Is that not awesome. I just met Dave a few weeks back and will be meeting Lisa and family sometime this week. We have been friends for nearly eight years and I am looking forward to this meeting.
The one friend that I really enjoy having coffee conversations with is the Lord. That I can be sitting here in Starbucks in the midst of so many people and yet enjoy the presence of the Lord. That I can pick up the pen and begin to express the things that He puts on my heart.
Let us enjoy coffee conversations. Let the Lord reveal Himself to us in the midst of the day, in the midst of life. Sit down my friends, pull up a chair and relax. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, a glass of tea, or a cool glass of water and enjoy some time with the Lord to get to know Him.
Till later,
Paul