Pour-over What is Real

So there's this new coffee shop in my area of Nashville called Roast on 8th. It's got pretty bangin' coffee I have to say. They apparently travel themselves  to far away lands to hand pick their coffee (so the man told me) and have a fun "do it yourself" pour-over bar. (that is if you want to do it yourself... I usually would rather someone else do it... since i'm paying them and all :) In any case they've just done a great job with this old building and turned it into a nice place to get great coffee. Though coffee at a place like this can get a little pricey these days... perhaps for something of such quality, taste, and values to top... it's worth it. Maybe coffee should be more of something special rather than something that is 97 cents at the Circle K...

Isn't if funny though? Funny that we call both the fair-trade Brazilian pour-over for $4 and the large cup of "The World's Best" from 7-Eleven for $1.19 ... Coffee?
How can both of these things be called by the same name? If you taste tested them there would be an unreal difference! Yet supposedly both are of the same bean.

Our American culture is notorious for this sort of thing. For literally, watering down, a product that should normally be so good! All in the name of trade. Only the trade isn't fair.

Sometimes I wonder what is more appalling... That we are ok with the fact of getting ripped off deep within our pockets on what isn't even real coffee!? And we just go along with it...
Or... That we are getting ripped off our health and taste-buds by eating and drinking what is fake! Over and over again...

This week at Kaleo we've been discussing fasting.
If there is a spiritual discipline i'd rather just avoid.. its fasting. :)

But there really is something about fasting that separates the Real from the Fake. Fasting essentially pulls back the curtain and blows away the clouds to help us see what really sustains us...

Out of all the things we consume on a daily basis... What is it that really keeps us going? That fills us? That is sustaining?

Jesus said, "I'm the real stuff."

(see John 6)
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If your in the Nashville Area definitely check out Humphreys Street Coffee Company for some local goodness with a rockin' cause!