I try to be like Jesus and love and respect everybody but it is hard. Some folks are hard for me to put up with. Sure I love them as my fellow brothers and sisters but certain folks rub me the wrong way with Coffee Snobs being right there at the top of the list. Do you know a coffee snob? Are you a coffee snob? Scoffing at Folgers for Jamaican Blue Mountain french pressed with spring water in a specially designed cup or stainless steel travel tumbler. Do you drink your coffee black meanwhile ridiculing others who put in sugar, cream or flavors? Coffee is a beverage enjoyed by parts of this world yet I have dear friends that I love who treat their allegiance to "good coffee" as a lifestyle like some speak about adhering to their faith.You might have guessed by now I am not a coffee drinker and you would be right. I am surrounded by coffee drinkers, I work in a place that coffee is readily available at any time, I live by no fewer than 4 coffee joints all of which have no empty tables most of the day, and yet rarely do I drink the stuff but like most people I own a coffee cup. In fact a quick glance around the room tells me I have 3 coffee cups in my office. I am prepared to drink coffee. I have the cup (the grainy photo taken with my Blackberry is of my go-to Detroit Tigers cup), I know where to get it and I know what to do when I have it yet I hardly imbibe. Surely I am not alone. Surely there are those who have everything ready at their disposal but do not/choose not to drink the very same nectar that others seem to have devoted much of their free time and income to obtaining.
This is starting to sound like a spiritual thing to me. Like those of us who have Coffee Cups but do not drink the stuff that the cups were designed for, we have everything that we need to experience community and a relationship with God yet for whatever reason we do not have an experience of God in community. Furthermore the folks that we run into who are zealously devoted to God and make no attempt to tone it down further compel us not to seek out a relationship with the same God that makes those guys annoying. Could it be that "God Snobs" are keeping folks from exploring a relationship with God just as Coffee Snobs are keeping others from experiencing the joy of coffee?
1 comment:
I am impressed that you know of Jamaican Blue. I am somewhat of a coffee snob(one of the limited ingestable pleasures I am allowed diet wise). However, Folgers is good too and I have no problem with folks adding cream or sugar to the mix. Your analogy to the God Snob makes the topic ponderable. An added thought, some of us just find it difficult to know where to begin. (My first blog!!)
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