yesterday evening i attended a bible study for the first time in litteraly months. it was a small group meeting at the newest starbucks in town, led by my older brother. the lesson lasted about 15 minutes, talking a little bit about Jacob. then the rest of the time was spent in fellowship, listening to peoples conversations and being entertained by my neice, haley.
lots of thouhgts were flying through my mind during that bible study...
first of all, it was really good to be hearing the word of God taught, even if it was just for a few minutes. it was good for my heart and soul and i might just force myself to go to the assembly of god service tonight... that might be good too...
second of all, i wasd struggling with the fact that i was sitting in the newest starbucks. the FOURTH starbucks to go into our little town of 98,775 people. four starbucks, three quizznos, four subways, two malls, wal mart, target greatland, an empty building where the regular target used to be, k-mart supercenter... the list gos on and on and on and on... not to mention the brand new shopping center they are building out there over useful farmland to suit the needs of our affluenzic society.
i want to scream sometimes... everyone should participate in this...
something funny about last night is that during the bible study my brother brought up the part from the movie "whats eating gilbert grape" when gilberts boss, the owner of a small town grocery store comented on how the newly built, corpratly owned Food Land was probably taking away all the customers. he asked gilbert if he had even been there and gilbert (played by johnny depp) looks up from pricing some canned food with a small pricing gun and solemnly says "no sir. i would rather die." later on in the movie, gilbert had to go to the food land to buy a birthday cake for his little brother who had destroyed the homemade one (watch the movie). as gilbert was walking out of the store, his boss was driving by in the parking lot, just checking out the competition. his boos stopped and there was gilbert, standing there in front of the food land, holding food land products... ironic...
the ironic thing is that i work for a small locally owned coffee shop here in town that probably doesnt make nearly as much money as starbucks. and there i was, sitting in the monster, starbucks.
sometimes i try to justify starbucks by telling myself that they are good becuase they do provide jobs for people who live here. if starbucks wasnt here, were would those people work? but something inside of me feels like a cheap sell-out when i tell myself that...
ugh. sigh.
im going to go create something now...
lots of thouhgts were flying through my mind during that bible study...
first of all, it was really good to be hearing the word of God taught, even if it was just for a few minutes. it was good for my heart and soul and i might just force myself to go to the assembly of god service tonight... that might be good too...
second of all, i wasd struggling with the fact that i was sitting in the newest starbucks. the FOURTH starbucks to go into our little town of 98,775 people. four starbucks, three quizznos, four subways, two malls, wal mart, target greatland, an empty building where the regular target used to be, k-mart supercenter... the list gos on and on and on and on... not to mention the brand new shopping center they are building out there over useful farmland to suit the needs of our affluenzic society.
i want to scream sometimes... everyone should participate in this...
something funny about last night is that during the bible study my brother brought up the part from the movie "whats eating gilbert grape" when gilberts boss, the owner of a small town grocery store comented on how the newly built, corpratly owned Food Land was probably taking away all the customers. he asked gilbert if he had even been there and gilbert (played by johnny depp) looks up from pricing some canned food with a small pricing gun and solemnly says "no sir. i would rather die." later on in the movie, gilbert had to go to the food land to buy a birthday cake for his little brother who had destroyed the homemade one (watch the movie). as gilbert was walking out of the store, his boss was driving by in the parking lot, just checking out the competition. his boos stopped and there was gilbert, standing there in front of the food land, holding food land products... ironic...
the ironic thing is that i work for a small locally owned coffee shop here in town that probably doesnt make nearly as much money as starbucks. and there i was, sitting in the monster, starbucks.
sometimes i try to justify starbucks by telling myself that they are good becuase they do provide jobs for people who live here. if starbucks wasnt here, were would those people work? but something inside of me feels like a cheap sell-out when i tell myself that...
ugh. sigh.
im going to go create something now...
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