Dreams Realized!

Dreams Realized!

This morning I had a cool conversation with one of our regulars. He talked about how little real information that you actually get in a newspaper. We talked about how newspapers typically have at the very least a political commentary running through the news. Then what´s more, they love to show calamity and destruction because these are the things that cause readers to buy more papers. He said that we unfortunately have not change much since the times when the Romans would feed Christians to the lions. We still have an insatiable thirst for blood shed. He also said that he thought a lot of it came down to greed and selfishness. We are more concerned with getting more stuff than helping others. On top of this he said he thought we tend to value people based on what they have instead of based on who they are.

So he said that in spite of thousands of years of technological, scientific, and political evolution the human condition has hardly advanced if at all. He said we are still just as selfish as we have ever been. I agreed with him and said it sounded a lot like what Jesus said. Jesus said we had to do one thing. Love. Love God and love man. Selfishness would be the exact opposite of love. And so it seems that the same message that was relevant in Jesus´ day is relevant today.

I absolutely loved this conversation. Just yesterday I was reading the first grant proposal that we wrote up for the cafe two years ago. At that time the cafe was a far off dream that was only real on paper. This morning I had a philosophical conversation with a client over coffee about important things in life. How cool to see dreams realized!