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📆 Daily Issue 18 | ⏱️ Read time: 2 min

Blessings in the Cubicle: A Divine Encounter at the Coffee Machine

I was sitting in an office cubicle, stressed out of my mind. The terror of squandering opportunities fueled a cortisol-infused meltdown.

I went to grab a coffee and clear my head. And blocking my path to the coffee machine was a man who said to me, with zero context,

“Do you know how blessed we are to just wake up every morning?”

It took me a moment to register what he was saying. I was very preoccupied by the fact that was blocking my path to the mother ship.

Despite my obvious annoyance, he didn’t move an inch. I took a deep breath and surrendered to this 9 am caffeine-free philosophy lecture.

“An old friend of mine used to tell me that every single day. Towards the end of his life, all he cared about was appreciating the moment.”

Then, he smiled at me and stopped talking. He took a few steps away from the coffee machine (thank goodness), and acted like he had not said anything at all.

I stood there for a few moments waiting for him to say something profound or for some miracle to happen. But after 60 more awkward seconds, I realized the conversation was done. I quickly poured myself some coffee and shuffled away, pondering the conversation.

Why did he share that with me?

Why didn’t he want to continue the conversation?

And why did I stand there for a full 60 seconds waiting for him to say something miraculous?

As I pondered these questions, the Biblical story came to mind about the man caught in a flood who died waiting for God to save him. I’m sure you know the parable…

He prayed for God to save him and he refused 3 rescue attempts because he was “waiting for a miracle”. In Heaven, he asks God why he wasn’t saved, and God responds, “I gave you three opportunities to be saved.”

This story reminded me of my interaction with this man because him telling me every day is a blessing WAS the miracle.

The miracle was bringing me back to gratitude, to this moment, and to everything I already have.

The miracle was taking my focus off my impending future and back to the beauty of today.

Everyday God is sending all of us small messages through people around us, what we stumble across online, and through nature. God is CONSTANTLY performing miracles for us.

So often we can get so caught up pursuing something extraordinary, in the present or in or future, that we forget that everything is already extraordinary.

God wants us to have everything we desire and embrace the knowing that we already have everything. Walking a path of faith requires us to hold both these truths at once.

The blessings are in the climb itself.

Keep inspiring,

Nicole