Why I called my Mom at 5:33 this morning……

So here is the thing, running this coffeehouse takes an enormous amount of time. It’s not uncommon to look at my hours at the end of the week and see between 70-80 hrs clocked in. And this does not include the time spend before and after work at the store. I mention this not as a way to get your sympathy (yeah right!!) but to provide context. I tell people all the time that context is vital in everything, from understanding the Bible, to understanding how the person standing in front of you espousing their set of beliefs arrived at them.

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As you guys know we are located very close to the Rockdale hospital and in the past 7 months (yeah!!) that we have been open I have encountered more people hurting because of actual or anticipated loss than I have ever in my life.

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Many of our other guests have shared their personal stories of love and loss. It was after the retelling of one such story late one night after closing that it occurred to me that I needed to call my Mom. There is an expectation that when we get through with the busyness of our lives which include work, school, kids, Church or a combination of these, that the person we love will be available for our call. Not always.

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Now I know that many of you reading this are puffing up your chest and patting yourself on the back in your mind’s eye, but for the rest of us honest, busy folks with a life and goals, this is a little coffeehouse reminder that it takes 5-7 seconds to dial a familiar number and 5min to get comfortable with the idea that your Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Aunt, Nephew, Niece, or Friend is ok.

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5-7 seconds, 5min talk, 52 times a year, all add up to a small number of life hours but a lifetime of satisfaction when the opportunity has past and cannot be replaced.

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And now you can hold me accountable for practicing what I preach.

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Moose-

Comments

[Denise]

Moose you are so right!!! sometimes I wish I had the chance to make just one more phone call to Lynn ( my sis ) But hey the one thing I can say is she and my mom and I use to talk on 3-way calls atleast once a week if not more and to one or the other everyday.

For everyone who has a brother or sister, call them up and tell them that you love them, and go over some fun memories, laugh and have a sleep over if you want... Lynn and I did for the last 3 weeks of her life living at Emory just she and I, everyday and everynight, and our mom was there for 1 of the weeks just the 3 of us at Emory laughing so loud in her room sometimes they had to tell us to SSHHH!! even those are good memories.

Denise

[Jennifer]

Friends,
This is so true. I'm not going to make any profound statement about how very true this post is because I don't want to waste any more time........Calling my mom right now.