I read an article this morning about coffee. Since I enjoy good coffee, I often judge what I wish for in my morning experience, and when someone offers a differing view, I take notice.
Many variables are constantly at play regardless of what someone says about control. Such as best beans, roasting time, age of beans, grinding, equipment, temperature, and the amount of time to brew a perfect cup.
Endless articles describe the best way to brew to get the best cup experience. If you have the time, the most perfected routine, and can control the environment, you “may” get the best results.
Control the environment,
and you’ll get the best results.
When I brew a pot, I know that the heart of the coffee comes early. Skip the first half-cup and put your cup under the next little bit, and you’ll have the best-tasting, strong-flavored taste and aroma. You’ve just challenged the remainder of the pot to taste something like the coffee others are looking for. Thief! Yep! You bet!
Through my years of wandering the generic coffee scene, I realized that most of what is offered is seldom the best. It’s made for the masses. The connoisseur is probably in a little back room enjoying their special conjured-up taste.
I regularly read books talking about a time when food sources were scarce. Voila! Someone finds a package of coffee. Careful brewing and tasting something they thought was gone forever… Ahha… I’d almost forgotten what coffee tastes like.
From a “spice road” to the “silk road,” the coffee trail begins in faraway mountains. Soil, temperature, sunshine, and a host of other perfect conditions can create the magic bean I’m sure Jack found in the folklore of olden times.
My mind pauses, and I realize, I’m not enjoying the perfected cup because I don’t have the time, money, or inclination to spend my hours to control the experience.
Hence, my thought this morning.
Control is an illusion.
From a perfect drive to a perfect church service, or from a perfect shopping experience to a perfect day of working at our job, most of what we encounter challenges us to control the moment.
We are often our own worst enemy.
What? The problem is with me. Sure. Consider the daily variables that challenge us to live a controlled life. You cannot dictate the parameters. You “go with the flow, roll with the punches.” That’s when you realize that you take ownership of control for yourself. Let everything else and all others be what they think is best, but don’t let yourself react to them.
It takes practice and a variety of experiences to learn from, but controlling oneself is often the best way to have a perfect day.
The Illusion of Control: It's a lesson learned from a perfect cup of coffee and about oneself. Control conquerors illusion. Share on XBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
(Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV)
