its a Venti Day!

My pen just died when I was journaling, but I still gotta get out my thoughts! Haha! So here it is!

I was always a little against Starbucks because of it being a big corporation and what not, but I have slowly been falling in love! The funny thing about it all is that I do not even like coffee that much...I only take it when it looks a pale brown color instead of black!

The thing I like about Starbucks (or any sort of coffee shop) is the enviornment. I am sitting in an insanely comfortable chair on top of a fun looking rug. There are three antique looking mirrors hanging next to one another and paintings all over the walls. This place is a place where friends come together and get to have fellowship in a quiet place. I love the idea of getting some real quality time with friends over a steaming hot drink, even if it leaves a bitter aftertaste!

I am so excited about this book I'm reading, "The Kingdom of Couches", because it is all about community and the need for fellowship. This has been a topic that has been at the forefront of my mind this summer. Mostly because I had such amazing community for the first part of this summer and I am worried about the second part. Home is sometimes a dark place for me to be, specifically because this is where my past is and it is even more tempting to slip into those past sins when I am here...and especially when I do not have that Christian fellowship.

Praise the Lord that I get to hang out with a great friend from the first half of the summer in San Diego (he is in Wisco for the summer) and Praise the Lord that I have two friends from school that are also in the area for the summer. One is interning at his church and the other just got back from East Asia. I got to spend the afternoon and night with them yesterday.

It has been so good for my heart to come back home and have these three men here in my life. It is definitely not going to be the same as San Diego; waking up, eating breakfast, and just doing life with some outstanding men of Christ, but I know this is where I need to be and I know it is going to be amazing.

God really reminded me today how much we need fellowship and how life-giving these three men have been to me in the past two days alone. He reminded me how He usually reminds me of things...through His word!


Psalm 133

How good and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in unity!

It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron's beard,
down upon the collar of his robes.

It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the LORD bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.


So, even though sometimes I am angry about spending the money on overpriced bitter water, it is well with my soul if it means community with men whom I am growing in relationship through Christ alone!