Coffee and Communion

I was met with kindness and grace upon arriving late to my connection through coffee making session last Sunday.  I learned how to make coffee with the industrial Binford 2ooo coffee machine and where it all goes and how people talk to and connect with the "coffee man", and I learned about the dangers of saving a few cents by adding a few fresh grounds to the base of grounds from the last batch and running it again.  (High risk, reward- this can lead to the machine backing up and overflowing).  After a great time of visiting with and helping out my coffee making partner, I headed into 9:00 a.m. Worship.  I was supposed to help serve Communion, so I sought a seat up front.  Wouldn't you know it, there was my coffee making partner, so I sat next to him.  When the minister called for those helping with Communion to come forward: coincidence, my coffee making partner got up also, and we served Communion together.  For the second time that day.

I remember a quote I took to heart from Mother Teresa.  "As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved.  By this we make Jesus present in the world today."

Here's to Communion.  And to coffee.