Coffee, Books-a-Million, This Year

Coffee. I love a good cup of coffee. Maybe I just love to love coffee in general.

This morning I wanted to find a Starbucks, sit in the corner with a cup of coffee, and think, write and pray about this year and my life in total. The morning I pictured ended up being me driving around for an hour trying to find any coffee shop that wasn’t either closed or just a coffee stand in a Piggly Wiggly (a grocery store for those of you not from the south)! I finally found a Books-a-Million. That works. A place for books and reading should work just fine for praying and writing. While driving around looking for that vision of the coffee shop morning I had in mind and not finding it, I wondered if God wasn’t trying to show me something. Maybe I have this vision and dream and plan for how I see my career in music and in woodworking, but along the way coffee shops (opportunities, plans, dreams, etc.) may be closed or in places not suited to His purpose for me. In the end I may find a Books-a-Million (which was quieter), instead of the “perfect” Starbucks I had in mind. I don’t know what that looks like for me this year, but I want to grow and be able to look back next year and know I walked the paths God laid out for me.

What’s been your Books-a-Million lately?