The ART of Losing Myself

As the coffee pours through the filter, the filter does nothing but simply allows it to pass; the filter if pure will add nothing to the flavour of the beans and also take nothing away. Simple flow. Up to down. From within to out.

The typewriter thinks not of the next word or sentence, it decides not the next paragraph. The typewriter is simply there, allowing its buttons to be pushed, allowing its ink to flow, allowing a mark to be left.

During my time working with coffee one day I was cleaning out the back, and I seen on a shelf high above me, a box.

‘100% pure filter’

And I knew that God was talking to me about what I needed to be. 100 percent pure filter, add nothing and take away nothing.

That is my prayer that I may be used to the full, that his outpour will always be HIS outpour.

Come my friend, let me wrap my arm around you.


Take a seat.


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A coffee that should not be an occasion

I write this, from a place that is not my home. I write this from a coffee shop.

Not that it’s unusual for me to do so, not at all. But today, I debated over whether or not to spend the money buying coffee outside of my home which boasts its own machine.

I relented. I wanted to be able to sit down somewhere other than the familiar space of reality, I wanted to have a coffee made by someone else. I wanted to enjoy the coffee, but as an occasion.

So I made the car journey, and it rained from the Heavens. I stood, waiting longer than the preferred time to be served and I was patient.

However as soon as I sat down in a cosy corner and gazed upon my not so desirable looking coffee, I debated whether it was truly worth it.

An overpriced coffee ☕️ that didn’t look too impressive, time and energy all spent just to enjoy the occasion of a coffee.

And let’s be honest, God, isn’t really just talking to be about the coffee. Metaphoric coffee, of his word, of his presence.

What he is saying though to me right now is that maybe you, maybe I, maybe we.

Need to stop trying to make an occasion out of God. Maybe we need to stop waiting for the occasion of church, the occasion of a gathering, the occasion of something in order to experience him when really, he is right at home with us.

Really he is right in the mess of reality. Actually we don’t need to travel too far to experience all that he has to offer.

Really the coffee at home is top notch.

Let’s keep it real, having the occasion of God is beautiful, it’s wonderful to be in church and in his presence, its incredible to be with other Christian’s and know he is in the mist.

But first and foremost he wants you to experience him right at home, in that daily brew. In the mess of your reality, in between the struggles and hardships that life brings.

He is right at home, your home, and he desires to be poured right there.

No longer do we need to make him an occasion.

But our every daily, freshly brewed.

Leviticus 16:11-14

11 “Aaron will present his own bull as a sin offering to purify himself and his family, making them right with the Lord. After he has slaughtered the bull as a sin offering, 12 he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the Lord. Then he will take two handfuls of fragrant powdered incense and will carry the burner and the incense behind the inner curtain. 13 There in the Lord’s presence he will put the incense on the burning coals so that a cloud of incense will rise over the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.[d] If he follows these instructions, he will not die. 

Hebrews 10:19-23

19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

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