Hey thanks for visiting my blog. Often times when I am preparing a sermon an idea comes to me that I want to unpack a little more. Hopefully, this blog will allow me the place to do that. Then again, maybe I’ll just talk about my kids. I’ll try to update it once a month..

Today is Sunday. Most pastors are probably real calm on Sunday morning. This particular Sunday morning they most likely had a 4 hour quiet time and led 3 morning joggers to Christ on the way to church. Not so much with me. I’m usually kind of amped on Sunday. Not stressed. Not irritable. It’s just that everything is kicked up a notch. I’m excited get to church. Maybe I’m a little nervous but I’ve never really figured it out.

This morning I got to my neighborhood Starbucks in kind of a rush. I act like there’s only one Starbucks in the neighborhood when really there are six. Anyway, you have to understand that even when I’m early on Sunday morning I’m still in a rush. (See paragraph 1)

My order is the same every morning. It hasn’t changed for years. A large coffee, half regular, half decaf, with more regular than decaf. I know the math doesn’t make sense but it’s never an issue with them so unless you have a Starbucks apron on just leave it alone.

So I place my order and the dude at the counter says, “We don’t have any coffee right now. You’ll have to wait till we brew some”

I looked at him in disbelief. Then I looked around for the hidden camera. This had to be a setup for some new TV show “Could You Imagine If The World Was Run By Knuckleheads?” It would be a show where you go to someplace like a Starbucks and they don’t have any coffee brewed and they film your reaction. After like 5 seconds the guy would say, “Just kidding…could you imagine if the world was run by knuckleheads?” Just then everyone would come out of the back and show you all the cameras in the half and half containers and coffee bags. 

So while I was looking for the camera, I noticed the word “coffee” everywhere. In the five seconds I counted down (just before the people came out of the back) I saw the word “coffee” seven times. That’s 84 “coffees” per minute.  The word “coffee” is used as a noun, a verb and a dangling participle.  There are bags of coffee, tubs of coffee, chocolate covered coffee, yogurt covered coffee and even cans of cold coffee. So can someone tell me why in the name of coffee gods they don’t have any coffee?

How is that even possible? How do you NOT have coffee ready? Shouldn’t there be a checklist? 1. MAKE COFFEE 2. UNLOCK DOOR FOR CUSTOMERS. 3. MAKE MORE COFFEE 4. CHECK COFFEE. 5. IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT THE COFFEE IS GETTING LOW, MAKE SOME MORE JUST IN CASE.

As is my pattern, I began to think up ways this could be avoided in the future. You could have another friggin coffee pot. Did anyone ever think of that? There’s a line out the door and there is only one coffee pot? Or, you could actually check to see how much is left when you pour a cup. It’s like the guy who puts the empty milk carton back. I hate that guy whoever he is.

Then I started thinking about some examples. It would be like the news running out of Paris Hilton stories.  It would be like Arrowhead running out of drinking water. It would be like Nike running out of overpriced sporting apparel. It would be like a pastor on his way to church on Sunday running out of patience. It just doesn’t make any sense.