Iced Carmel Macchiato

Sometimes when I think about coming home I get really excited about getting into my car for the first time, driving to Starbucks and ordering a venti iced carmel macchiato with an extra shot of espresso, light on the carmel drizzle. I will be alone in my car and this will be the first time I will have been alone in 11 months. A single soul will not know where I’m going. I will just be cruising in my car, windows down and music up loud. It may sound pathetic but it’s just something I sometimes think about.

Now just the other day I had the opportunity to go to Starbucks. It has been two months since I’ve been and back in Lesotho I started thinking about when I would go, what I would order. I thought about how desperate I sounded for a carmel macchiato so I began praying to the Lord that when I went to Starbucks He would give me someone to talk to or pray over.

Saturday Talya and I left after session and went. My only intentions in going was to order a drink, and process the last month of my life. Process PVT and spend time with the Lord.

As I sat facing the entrance I would sometimes blank stare while thinking or watch as people walked in.

Three teenage girls walk in. Beautiful young girls. Two with blonde hair, blue eyes.
Micheala with a scarf over her head covering the patches where her hair had fallen out from cancer. Beautiful and so strong.
I watched as they ordered and waited for their drinks. Trying to build up the courage to go talk to them. They start to exit and stop at the door.
I hear Micheala “let’s take a selfie in front of the sign”
I smile because it’s literally something I would do.
I tell Talya I’d be back and I go out to meet the girls. They apologize as they are finishing their picture and I just smile and wait.

I explain who I am. The girls explain that they do go to church and have a relationship with the Lord. I offer to pray for them and they accept. I hug her afterwards and go back inside.
My sister Micheala is living and loving the life the Lord has given her. She is a daughter and not fearful of what the future holds. She trusts in the Lord. This may or may not have been the person I prayed the Lord would have for me when I went to Starbucks but Micheala amazed me. To see her walk around so happily and boldly shed light into my life. As you go out for coffee, dinner or even grocery shopping ask God to interrupt you with someone. It’s worth it, I promise.