so last time I spent some time sharing some thoughts on marriage and all that was going on with that. I HIGHLY recommend you to read the statement I put in block quotes in the middle of that post… It has really been a great launching point of discussion among friends and has allowed myself in particular to try and understand the mere nature of relationships with those of the opposite sex.

However tonight, I have some more thoughts I want to share. This time we’ll tackle the God factor that i think each and every person in my generation deals with… Who is he supposed to be in our lives, where do we fit his principles, and how can we relate to him?

So i am currently sitting in an apartment in boston, on the couch with the lights off and I can’t seem to go to bed because of the incredible thought I just had, so i immediately got out my computer and decided to write this down. I was thinking about the weekend I have just had, and started to understand in a deeper form the incredible truth God presented me with this weekend.

You see, for me, one of my closest friends of nearly 6 years moved up to boston about 18 months ago. I have visited once before to hang out, celebrate 4th of July and check out the town but ever since she moved away, I had always missed the rich conversation we seem to get lost in as we share in life together.

Many of these conversations happened to be over a cup of coffee.

It also just so happened that for christmas she gave me a copy of Donald Miller’s most recent book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years.

And in this book he challenges readers to create and live-out meaningful stories.

So when I got the call from my friend in boston that informed me of the rough few weeks she had been through, I realized it was in those moments that our coffee conversations were most needed. So I decided it was time for a good cup of coffee! Three hours after leaving nashville, I had landed in the Boston airport about to embark on an incredible weekend.

All I wanted to do was live out a meaningful story.

I wanted to be able to say that I cared for my friend so much that I flew up to boston to have a cup of coffee.

As I think about it, God did a similar thing didn’t he? He did something incredibly memorable for us just to allow us an opportunity to drink coffee with us.

You see, when He sent his one and only son to die in the most painful, agonizing death, he was doing it so that He could enter into a relationship with us! His deeply loved children. But you see, this was only possible if His son could pay for all the mistakes, lies and other horrible things we as humans are inevitably going to do in life…..

ALL SO WE COULD SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE WITH HIM.

So as I sit here in Boston, I wonder about the last time you had an opportunity to drink a cup of coffee with your Heavenly Father? Maybe today is your opportunity?

You see, in the great story of God… in HIStory, (which happens to have gone on for a LONG time) we forget that God wanted to burn in our minds an image that we would never forget… the image that God would let his own son die, so he could have rich conversation and relationship with you and with me.

So, I guess i come to this idea tonight… why do we avoid being apart of an incredible story? I mean what is it in us that thinks that we can fabricate some better story without a meaningful relationship with Jesus?

Why does our generation want to leave this beautiful hot cup of coffee on the table when the most merciful and forgiving creator of the universe is sitting right across the table? I wonder why won’t you and I don’t just accept his invitation to be a part of that GREAT story that has been going on for much longer than we could have hoped to experience.

Maybe God is wanting us to trust that his story has a purpose, and that He knows more about what the ending looks like than we get to choose. Trust. Hope. Live. and be a part of some great stories!!

more soon. - L.

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