You ever been so busy and so tired that you don’t really know what to do with yourself? I’m approaching that point right now. I drink tons of coffee to wake me up and my body is there, but my mind is stuck somewhere in last week. So I’m feeling pretty wired, tired, and fried.

I’ve never been so tired in all my life, but through it all, I keep going. I don’t really know how. My plate remains full, but things keep getting done. Not small thing, big ones. The marathon continues and I can only attribute it to the Lord. I have no bragging rights here. Though, for being so worn out, I keep leaning in and finding this odd job amongst the whirlwind of business.

Now, I’m not saying that God blesses the busy. I’m just saying that I don’t know how I would have made it though the past few weeks (and few more to come) without Him. Less of me and more of Him seems to be working. I’m reminded of this scripture:

“Starbucks, the company that popularized the $4 cup of coffee, is testing a $1 cup and free refills of some of its offerings.” (MSN)

Can it be true? The words “value” and “Starbucks” can now be used together? I’m sorry Virgil, you preterist, but this has got to be end times stuff, up there with the mark of the beast. Someone call Tim LaHaye.

Kevin Bussey starts a new job at a new church and Starbucks goes cheap. This is the winter of Bussey man. You are blessed.

I’m back in town. The trip was amazing. And I’ll fill all of you in on it in the coming days.

I just wanted to throw out an idea or maybe more of a mandate. I’m setting out (and it may take years in the process) to have coffee with all my regulars (and anyone else who wants to) here on my blog. I have such amazing, fascinating people on here and I know I’d be a better person for just having a conversation with them over coffee. Can a cup of coffee and a conversation change the world? We’ll have to see.

And Aussie Layguy? Don’t think you’re out of the running buddy…

Any one up for a cup?

There’s a new airline flying to limited destinations and through small airports where you can pay as low as $10 per leg of your trip. It’s called SkyBus.

So my real question is: Who lives near…

Columbus, OH - Boston, MA - Richmond VA - Greensboro, NC

Kansas City, MO -San Francisco, CA - Los Angeles, CA

Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Seattle, WA

… and wants to have coffee with me?

Check out SkyBus for more details (the only odd thing is - every flight has to go through Columbus).

Comment me to set up a time…

I meet every Tuesday morning at 6am with 3 other guys for breakfast and Bible study. We always sit in the same booth at Don’s diner. I’m always half awake till I dive into my bottomless cup of diner coffee. So, I drug in this morning and walked over to our regular booth and was about to sit down till I noticed that there was someone else in my booth. From behind (and through my bleary eyes) it looked just like one of my breakfast mates. But upon closer look, it sure wasn’t Alan. It was the wrong guy. Luckily, I stopped just before sliding into the booth with a chipper”Good morning!” I’m sure the guy would have appreciated the greeting, but he wasn’t who I was looking for. The other guys laughed at me from across the room as they watched this unfold.

How often do we get caught up in routines and regularity of life and miss where we are going? I was pointed in the right direction. I was walking towards what I though was my destination. And when I arrived there it wasn’t where I wanted to be. I was led more by routine than vision.

I find myself doing this more than I like to believe. I get on cruise control and take my eyes off the road. It says in Lamentations 3:40, “let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”

So is it just me? Or do you find yourself speeding though the day, simply trying to get to the end, but not looking where you are going? And at the end of the day, I look in the mirror and find myself not being the man I set out to be. My vision has been lost. I’ve become busy. I’ve become stressed. I’ve become tired. I’ve become the wrong guy.