Coffee With Jesus…Second Cup
WORDS FROM W.W. July 10, 2014
I stare at the coffee that has been altered with a dose of cream and two sugars. I admit to myself that I prefer my cup of coffee to be this color rather than the original pouring of brew.
“You’re right!” I whisper across the table to Jesus. “When it comes to coffee I don’t think of it in any other way than with the add-ins…the disguises, as you say.”
“How easy it is for that to be interpreted as the norm. Likewise it is easy…perhaps inevitable, for things of the soul to get mixed in with the distractions of life to the point where a person can’t distinguish between the two.”
“Help me understand!”
“For instance, on the sleeve of your coffee cup there is an advertisement for a kind of tea. The woman who is promoting the tea, it says, is inviting people to take a few moments to pause and reflect each day. Notice that there is even a web site to go to. Do you see the name of the web site?”
“SteepYourSoul.com!”
“So suddenly drinking a cup of tea gets equated with the caring of your soul.”
“Perhaps it’s some powerful tea.”
“And many people will believe it. As they sip it they will assume that it is satisfying their souls.”
“I sometimes feel that way about church on Sunday.”
“Say a little more.”
“Don’t get me wrong! It’s not bad, but sometimes…many times…my soul doesn’t get touched, poked, or breathed into.”
“Aren’t you the pastor?”
“Yes! Sad, isn’t it?”
“Why do you think that is?”
“Back to the interrogation questions again, are we?”
“Just helping you discover again.”
“I think…I think it’s perhaps because we confuse the cream for the coffee. It’s getting back to that idea of knowing what the essence of something is and what are the disguises.”
“Keep going.”
“Come on! You’re Jesus! I’m just telling you what you already know.”
“And I appreciate it.”
“So most of the things that I lead the congregation in doing in worship dance around the King…without ever dancing with the King. I don’t know if that makes sense or not.”
“I love your use of images to explain what is hard to verbalize. Staying with that image, perhaps dancing with the King is too intimidating because the dancer is afraid she will step on the King’s toes.”
“Dancing from a distance.”
“Dancing around the purpose, without dancing with the purpose.”
“I often feel guilty because…I’m leading the dancing around the purpose.”
“That’s quite a burden to shoulder.”
“And you know about carrying burdens.”
“Let me suggest that you let me carry that one, also.”
“I’m not very good about surrendering.”
“Not many people are.”
TO BE CONTINUED
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