Comments on: Starbucks Log: Post Valentine http://growmercy.org/2007/02/16/starbucks-log-after-valentines/ Mercifully gumming up the scapegoating mechanism Fri, 18 May 2012 16:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Connie http://growmercy.org/2007/02/16/starbucks-log-after-valentines/comment-page-1/#comment-1821 Connie Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:15:49 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/02/16/starbucks-log-after-valentines/#comment-1821 Your melancholy is palpable—I’m sorry about your friend’s sister-in-law, and about your friend. And yes, I think worry is a form of prayer—because worry implies hope (if there were no hope, we would not worry), and hope is clearly a form of prayer. And I’m even sorry about the couple leaving Starbucks…we’ve all been there, and conflict is part of love, and always just around a corner, but frightening and sad anyhow. Because, besides longing for the abandonment and optimism of the young, isn’t that what we all want most—someone to help us ride the waves of sorrow life brings, someone that “gets us” and adores us, and who hasn’t allowed their heart to become brittle or scabbed over yet? Your melancholy is palpable—I’m sorry about your friend’s sister-in-law, and about your friend. And yes, I think worry is a form of prayer—because worry implies hope (if there were no hope, we would not worry), and hope is clearly a form of prayer.

And I’m even sorry about the couple leaving Starbucks…we’ve all been there, and conflict is part of love, and always just around a corner, but frightening and sad anyhow. Because, besides longing for the abandonment and optimism of the young, isn’t that what we all want most—someone to help us ride the waves of sorrow life brings, someone that “gets us” and adores us, and who hasn’t allowed their heart to become brittle or scabbed over yet?

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