Saved for Each other - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Now working at a coffee shop can teach you a lot about humans. The one I worked at called itself People's Third Place. You have your work, you have home, and you have your third place. A place where you feel like you belong. Where you know that people are looking for you to be there. Where you're loved and you can show up in pajama pants and a messy bun and people are just glad to see you. Some people though come into a third place and they take their cup and they leave, telling themselves that they know coffee. But what I've seen is that the people who stay, get comfortable, and settle in, and share their lives together, and tell stories together, and try Sam's weird smoothie concoction he came up with that has espresso in it for some reason, the people who hold the alley door open for you on trash day, those were not just coffee people, but coffee shop people. What I found is that Jesus is a lot more like a French press than a Keurig cup.