My Coffee My Way

I used to be like most of you and stopped at local coffee shop a.k.a. Coffee Toffee or Mayasari or Starbucks regularly. Even at work, I would be the first to grab my cup of crappy coffee. Yes, it was horrible, but it was pretty cheap.

Then I became intrigued at the prospect brewing my own coffee at home, in lieu of stopping to buy it, or drinking the free concoction at work. One day, one of my church friends briefed me how to simply froth milk for cappucinos and I was kinda surprise to see if what you really like about a cappuccino is the frothy topping, you can easily whip up milk without a device designed for just that purpose but use the shaker instead haha, and voila.

I haven’t actually worked the numbers yet but I’m definitely saving money by brewing my own coffee and frothing the milk each day. I feel like I’m doing something special for myself and look forward to trying out the new brands of coffee. To be honest, it secretly bothered me that I was stopping at the coffee shop each day, shelling out good money for an inferior product. I did it out of convenience, but I’m finding that brewing my own coffee is more convenient and better for me.

If you enjoy drinking good coffee, I suggest that you follow my lead and buy a personal coffeemaker and some great coffees. Subscribe to Cikopi and explore the world of great coffees. I guarantee you that this experience will add a little spice and variety to your life.

Wasting time

A few weeks ago, Rick Warren tweeted ”IF you focus on becoming EMPLOYABLE, you’ll be hired eventually. USE unemployed time to LEARN new skills. Dont waste time.” which nudged me and made me think about my own unemployed time being wasted everyday.

How much time do you waste, every day? You probably don’t try to, or mean to. But if you work for a typical company, you’re probably losing hours of productive time every single day. What does your typical day look like? Maybe a typical day looks something like this:

• You get into the office, make a coffee, hang out in the office kitchen and chat with the people there.
• You check your emails, and end up getting distracted by a comment on facebook or twitter or a link to an interesting new gadgets.
• You get back on task for a bit, working on that important report.
• Phone calls come in, and colleagues stop by to ask questions.
• You make another coffee.
• You need to print out some documents, but the printer’s acting up again. It takes you the best part of half an hour to sort it out.
• During the mid-day, you’re in a two hour meeting. It starts late, then overruns. You don’t really have anything to contribute – you just nod along at the appropriate points.

Hmm…welcome aboard, mine too ahahaha…

How much of your unemployed time being wasted everyday?

Christ-centered Life

We are born self-centered; the goal of the Christian life is to become Christ-centered. Early on, it seems so simple. In every situation, just put Christ first and ask yourself what would Jesus do. It’s easy to say but it’s hard to do.

Have you ever had any experience that every moment that you seek to do something for the Lord, something keeps getting in the way?  And it’s YOU! Welcome aboard. Me too

To give over control of our lives to Christ is completely against our own sinful self-centered nature. It’s hard to do. Trying to make Christ the center of our lives is like trying to train a pet pig not to root in the yard. It might not be impossible, but it is sure difficult to train an animal not to do something that is ingrained in its nature.

Why God Doesn’t Explain

I pretty much feel like all I do lately is sleep and work. Which is pretty much true. But hey, it’s a job, right? It’s always so amazing to me how the Lord works on so many different levels at the same time.

One day last month, we marveled at how much He’s been telling/showing us. The very next month we were in despair because He was so silent. It just didn’t click sometime that week…