For those of you who don’t know, a Kuerig is supposed to be
the best thing since sliced bread and pockets on jeans. It’s an instantaneous coffee
cup maker that was designed to give you a single, perfectly brewed cup almost
seconds after you press the brew button. But, today, my Kuerig taught me some
valuable life lessons.
1. Not Ready
Recently, someone near and dear to me spoke
about clocks; about how everyone is on their own; about how all anyone can do
is plant seeds and wait for those seeds to take root and grow or wait for them
to die before they ever reach their potential. How relevant is that to us as
human beings?
Funny thing is, I don’t even remember turning
it on (maybe my house is haunted), but when I walked in and out of the kitchen,
I saw the “Not Ready” light blinking on my coffee pot. And it got me to
thinking…The most glorious and wonderful things can happen to us when we are “Not
Ready”, as can the most horrendous. It’s what we do with the ingredients that
counts. Because if we wait until we are ready, we will wait for the rest of our
lives. Why not just jump in and swim against the current? Why not do
everything, say everything when we are not ready? Because we never really know
when we are ready…until we do exactly what we think we aren’t ready to do.
2. Brewing Now
My coffee pot also always tells me that it is
“brewing now”, but it is rarely often the “now” that I think it should be. Good
things take the right amount of time, the right amount of nurturing, and (most
importantly) more than just one right element. Several elements have to blend
(quite seamlessly) for you to attain perfection. I must remember this. So must
we all.
3. Descale
The descale feature on my coffee pot
demands that the things of yesterday be cleansed to make way for the things of
today. How poignant. How relevant. Yesterday has got to move aside if the future
is ever going to take her proper place.
So, I guess you could say, everything I
have ever learned in life, I learned from my coffee pot. Who knew?
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