A Good Cup O' Coffee!!!

How on earth have I gone from having great coffee every morning to utter CRAP!?!?

There isn’t any ‘spiritual’ lesson here this morning I’m afraid. Just voicing my frustration! I can do that – this is my blog after all! Besides, isn’t this about the roller coaster of life? Well for some reason since we moved into this new place I cannot seem to make a decent cup of coffee. So this morning I’m determined.

I woke early this morning with the idea that I’d do some writing, journaling and meditating too. And…..to have a good cup of coffee to go with it all. This is my fourth pot of coffee. Three have gone down the drain, not the hatch, this morning. I have now changed the beans, changed from tap water to filtered water and unplugged the coffee machine and reset it, because I can no longer tell if it is making it extra strong because the silly little light on the strong button no longer works. So let’s see how this one turns out. Oddly, I can do with or without coffee. Some days I don’t touch the stuff. But this morning I just want a decent cuppa!

It’s funny! I’m one of those people who will not eat or drink anything just for the sake of doing so. As I grew up I heard it all, “Better belly bust than good food wasted,” and, “Waste not, want not,” and, “Eat everything on that plate!” and the famous one that got me in huge trouble, “Just think of all those starving children in Africa!” to which I replied, “Well stick it in an envelope and mail it to them!” to which my mother replied with a quick slap upside my head!!!

Living with an alcoholic for the last decade was interesting too. I am not much of a boozer. In fact I’m a pretty cheap drunk! Two or top, three drinks and I’m done for. I don’t like the feeling of being drunk, or the after effects, so I don’t get drunk. Not that I haven’t been drunk. I just choose not to be now that I know what that feels like. When we would go out, especially, and try a bottle of wine or something new, I would simply not drink it if I didn’t like it. And no matter how much he’d had, he would drink mine too, just because I was being wasteful.

Somewhere along the line I learned that since God don’t make no junk (referring to us as humans), I don’t need to consume any either. My definition of junk varies of course, like most of us. I do enjoy chips, burgers, pizza and the like far too much. But to me at least I’m enjoying the calories. But if I don’t like the taste…nope…nada…no way Jose!

MY TRUTH: Perhaps that’s the lesson today, for me. I deserve to enjoy my food AND coffee. I may not have much in worldly possessions; or much in the bank. But I deserve the best I can have! So do you.

A Good Cup O' Coffee!!!