I avoid lines. In Canada, we have a coffee franchise called ‘Tim Hortons’. It is somewhat of a cult that has average human beings standing in lines for the majority of their adult life praying to the double double.
As I sip my coffee and contemplate the message, I can’t help but think of service. When I think religion, I think service. My first thought is that Tim Horton’s is serving all of these people. My second thought is that Tim Hortons is taking from all of these people and serves industry. “It’s just another corporate whore dancing for its master”, he says as the creamy coffee flavored beverage cascades down the inner center of his body.
I can imaging people growing their own food and learning to share the produce with one another. I can envision local farmers supplying meat, wheat and greater quantities to their communities. I can see the end of a fossil fueled era. I just cannot see the bridge from A to B.
Coffee time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 16th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Chris, you just gave yourself the biggest gift by recognizing your greatest strength and shortcoming in this human conundrum. The last paragraph of this blog lays it out clear and simple in your words. It seems you see yourself as a visionary but fall short in your ability to endure the daily growing pains that must happen in order for the vision to come to fruition. There are those of us out there whom excel in maintaining their peace in the struggles of daily living and push forth slowly but surely (tortoise?). And there are those of us who can see the wider picture having ran up ahead to scope out the territory already (hare?). These blessed ones can best serve by holding sacred space, assured in their beautiful end vision, in order that the necessary work can take place. You don’t have to know how to get from A to B! Multiple souls are already all over that part as we speak! There’s your community!