Giving

Haiti. Before last week, I’m sure many people hadn’t heard of that small country in the Caribbean. But last week changed it all.

The devastation that has happened to this small poor country, is unbelievable. Today hearing about Haiti is almost unavoidable. It is all over the news, on my main page when I pull up my email, I heard about it at work, and I see updates on my twitter page.

I know that many organizations in the United States have contributed to bring relief in Haiti. I hear about one of those organizations at work, The Red Cross. If you didn’t know, you can give to the Red Cross at Starbucks. You can give cash or credit donations. Starbucks is also collecting coffee, toiletries, and other packets to send to the relief workers in Haiti.

Today while I was working, one of my regular customers came up to me and said that she wanted to give whatever was in this envelope that she had to the Red Cross. She said that she didn’t know how much was in the envelope. She said that last night at work, they had taken up a love offering specifically to give to the Red Cross because they wanted to help the people in Haiti. You might think, oh that is very nice but what is so significant about that….

She works at a homeless shelter.

These homeless men and women gave whatever they had to help those out who are also in need. They feel like they’ve been blessed with this shelter and feel as if they have a lot more than the people in Haiti have now.

WOW.

I ask that if you haven’t given to an organization to help bring relief to Haiti, please do. Like I mentioned before, you can give to the Red Cross at Starbucks, you can give money to World Vision, Compassion International and there are a lot more organizations that are bringing relief efforts to Haiti.

Just think about what you would want people to do if this earthquake were to happen to you.

taken off guard

Jesus loves you.

This was said to me this morning while I was workin at the bux. I handed the lady at the counter her coffee and commented on how cute her purse was and gave her the left over change. She then replied with “Thanks, have a great day and Jesus loves you.”

If you were the next person in line or a small fly on the wall you would have thought that I was spacing out. I was trying to remember if I really had heard someone tell me that Jesus loves me.

But WHY is this something that takes me off guard? Shouldn’t I be excited that someone wanted to bless me this morning? Yes, it did touch my heart and made me smile, after I realized what was said, but it is not the norm nowadays.

People usually don’t even say anything to me. Even after I tell them to have a great day or thanks for coming in.

hmmmm….

What is something that has taken you off guard?

Wcommendation Wednesday

Here recently, I have realized that there are a lot of things that I need to share with people. Things that I have been discovering and that they are sometimes overlooked or not even thought of. I have decided that every Wednesday from here on out (please don’t get mad if I don’t make it for EVERY Wednesday) I will be recommending or Wcommending two things that people need to try or look at.

Ok so here it goes….

For the first item that people need to be exposed to is:

mylifeisaverage.com

This site is HILARIOUS and it will put you in a good mood throughout your day and/or make your day. It will also get you thinking about things that you could possibly post on the site.

Number 2:

Ok so I work at Starbucks and if you have been hiding in a shell or under a rock, we now have INSTANT coffee. Ok there is NO need for people to get all snooty until you try it. It is called VIA. We have Italian Roast and Columbia. You can have them in hot water or cold water, BUT what you REALLY need to try is putting one of these in some chocolate milk and BAM you have yourself an iced mocha.

SOOOOOOOO

If you would like to purchase some lovely VIA you should come to the Starbucks store on 39th Street and purchase some.

I sound like a snooty coffee snob, ok well I am, but I know that sometimes I really want some coffee but I don’t want to make an entire pot, this is EXCELLENT for this.

I hope that you take the time over this next week and let me know what you think about these two wcommendations!!

Adventuring…

Today Kaleigh and I decided to adventure out into the world of Kansas City.

She wanted to go to Half Price Books and I had never been there so I thought that it would be fun to find it. Well we got lost about 15 thousand times. I thought that it would be fun. And it was.

UNTIL….

Little Red, my car, decided that she wasn’t going to turn on. AHHHHH. I was not a happy camper. I have never had any problems with her. This is the first time that she has acted up and of course, she is deciding to do this right when I have to start paying for her. MRRRRR

Well we wait around and go into the Dollar Store. What a lovely little interesting store. We found a fun book. Fark. Fark.com is a fun site that everyone should check out. It is about news that really isn’t news but needs to be filled in for the media.

We also went to a coffee shop and I have discovered that I am a coffee snob. I had the WORST Carmel Macchiato in my LIFE. First off, there was no vanilla in it. Second off, there was no Carmel drizzle. WHAT!!! It tasted like I was eating dirt. Thank you Starbucks for showing me what real coffee tastes like.

Well Little Red was jumped and then she started shaking on the way home on 70. AHHH. I couldn’t go above 50. Mrrr this is not good.

Prayers for Little Red would be appreciated as well as my bank account so that I can afford to fix her.

Diabetes?

Yesterday at work, an elderly young man came into the lovely Starbucks.

He went on and on and on and on about how he couldn’t have any sugar in his drink. He finally decided on a venti iced sugar free vanilla latte.

THENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

He decided he wanted a piece of lemon loaf. If you have ever had a lemon loaf from Starbucks, you know that there is AT LEAST an inch of icing on top of it.

And what is icing made of…. sugar.

I don’t understand people sometimes.

What is something that you don’t understand about people?

Working…

Yes. I am working!

I got a job at Starbucks and it is amazing. I am so excited that I am getting this opportunity to work at such an amazing company.

I love the environment and it is so much fun! I love all of the people that come in and my coworkers already know what they want because they come in everyday. I hope that I am able to know what people want to drink soon!

Right now I would really like a Grande Carmel Cinnamon Dolce with 4 shots.

But when I was leaving work the other day, and walking to my car, there was a lady that was getting yelled at by a man. It connected in my head that she was his “lady” and that he apparently didn’t like what she did. My heart instantly broke because this lady was NOT being treated how she should. I wish I had the guts to stick up and tell that guy to shut up and treat her properly but I don’t think he knows how to do that.

Here lately, my heart has been breaking for people. I have been wanting to share Jesus more and more. I want people to know what true LOVE is and what it feels like. How it feels when no one will ever leave you and will always love you through no matter what.

What are you doing to share the love of Christ?