MY SECOND LOVE
Can I share a secret with you? Coffee isn’t my favorite hot drink.
I’ll allow a moment for that to sink in, while I concentrate on dodging the tomatoes and old fruit being tossed at me just now.
Okay, I enjoy coffee...A LOT!, but I have a second ‘love’ – Chai.
Now, I'm not talking about your typical USA style chai. I'm certainly not meaning that overly sweet stuff from Seattle. Yuk! Double Yuk! No. the chai I savor is original stock. It comes from East Africa—home of the finest highland teas in the world…and where I first sipped a steaming cup of milky-sweet chai.
As much as it may incense some of you purists and coffee-loyalists to learn that I have another favorite, in the grand scheme of life, it really isn’t an important matter—is it? We all have our favorites and our preferences. Some like one while others choose the another, and it is okay with us all. Our drink choices and preferences don't really amount to a hill of coffee beans do they?
But are there some things that aren’t up for grab?. Think about that.
Life. Is life up for grabs, or is it a matter of choice…like coffee or chai?
Marriage. What about marriage? Can I switch my commitments in mid-life for a more spicy drink when I grow weary of the tried-n-true?
Spirituality too. Is it for me alone to take it or leave it as when I choose my favorite hot drink?
Is there the possibility that some things aren’t up for grabs, aren’t totally up to my discretion, aren’t for me to decide? Are some things always true, or always good, or always best? Are there things that are fixed; they just are what they are, and to debate them is…well…sort of silly--like boxing your shadow or wishing upon a star--senseless, a waste of time?
I can debate coffee and chai with you and have a convincing argument, as well as a lot of fun, but I can’t debate some matters without taking on a more serious countenance.
This morning, sip you coffee. (I’ll be having chai.) Let’s both think about what’s up for grabs in life. Hope you’ll carefully ponder my thoughts, before you reach for more tomatoes and old fruit.
Thanks for your time. I do hope your day is a great one!
--Gourmet Thoughts for A Gourmet Day ** Fresh Brewed Here Every Monday-- Millions of us begin our day with coffee. For some its a necessity; for others a simple luxury. Which ever your case, I want to share it with you occasionally--not to intrude, but, hopefully to enhance by offering a thought, an idea, an insight, or a story. After all, what better way to begin a gourmet day than with a gourmet thought and hot coffee?
