Only When It's Convenient

I really like being by myself. I don't really know why, but I like to get away and let my thoughts and my moleskin talk to me. Maybe its because I am sending emails and talking on the phone all day, maybe its because I am crazy busy and I just like my times to chill. I always take my moleskin with me, and here's what I wrote last night.

We have a hospital right across from our church. In the hospital we have a coffee shop that sells Starbucks (its not a Starbucks its a shop that brews and sells Starbucks, don't get me started because I don't understand it).

Now I also have to tell you that I really don't like hospitals. I have never been admitted to a hospital so its not because I have had a bad experience. I just don't like them, maybe its the smell of them. I always get a little freaked out when I walk through those doors. Just thinking about it I am started to get a little freaked. Its bad because going to the hospital is part of my job.

So anyways, I have the idea to go and grab a coffee before rehearsal last night. I really like a little down quiet time before rehearsal. So anyways I walk over there and grab a iced latte. If you don't know go and get one today. Wow. So I grab my coffee and then try to go and find somewhere to sit and chill. I find a waiting room and take a seat. I am a visual learner so let me set the scene for you:

Heres my view of the people in the waiting room.



Heres my coffee after 5 minutes.



As you see in the first picture there was a group of women sitting in the room. I really didn't know why they were there but only a few reasons come to mind. Waiting to hear how someone is doing, or they wanted a place to chill and drink some coffee. Now as they wait they are talking about everything you could think of, but they talk the most about 2 subjects. How bad their husbands are, and how fun it is to get drunk. Really, that's what they talked about. In the midst of using strong language, they each shared the last time they got wasted and how they felt the next morning. I was blown away by soccer moms sharing stories.

After 10 or 15 minutes of this, a doctor walked in and asked for the wife. I find out her husband just had triple bypass surgery. When he walked in, the room changed from cursing and stories to complete quiet. He came through the surgery fine. The wife was relieved and then makes this comment: "we have been so worried, we have been praying while we have been waiting that he would be fine". I am amazing at this. Now I'm not one here to judge, but I just wanted to tell her off. That happens to me alot. She said the thank you Jesus line about 6 times in 2 minutes. Right after the doc left the conversation went right back down the toilet.

Now I'm not saying that God didn't hear her prayers, and I'm not saying you can't drink and love Jesus. The Bible is very clear about drunkenness. Read it you might be surprised.

To each is his/her own, but lets not only think about the Lord when it's convenient. When we are facing hard times or when we don't have answers. Let's choose to live a life of fully depending on the Lord. In good times and bad. Let our faith become stronger in those times of challenge instead of us using the faith card during those times.

Let our hearts confirm what our lips are saying.

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."
Jesus from Matthew 15:8