Sunday Breakfast
May 25, 2008
I was having coffee with a couple of friends the other day, one who faithfully attends a church she doesn’t like and the other who, having recently left a church, doesn’t attend anywhere.
The faithful attender asked me whether some mutual friends of ours had found a church yet.
While my mental response was, “hell no, they’re not even looking,” my actual response was, “they are enjoying their Sunday morning breakfasts.”
The non-attender friend said, “Yes we are too. Maybe we should start a breakfast club.”
“Next thing you know someone would call it a church.”
“Then there would be disagreements about syrup.”
“And sausage versus bacon.”
“Eventually someone would split off to have their own non-pork breakfast.”
Breakfast. It’s complicated.
May 25, 2008 at 5:02 am
And that’s before you even get into the arguments over the true nature of an omelet.
May 25, 2008 at 6:49 am
Don’t be silly. That isn’t complicated. Anyone with any sense knows that sausages are the only choice. While we can love the bacon-eaters, we must hate the bacon.
Peace,
Jamie
May 25, 2008 at 8:03 am
It is only complicated when we think everyone has to eat and drink the same thing for breakfast. When we can have a breakfast where each one may choose it becomes less complicated but the kitchen is a lot messier. Clean up takes a long time……but most of the fun conversation happens during cleaning time.
May 25, 2008 at 8:15 am
Don’t forget the coffee.
-Alan
May 25, 2008 at 9:23 am
Hell, man cannot live on coffee alone!
He must imbibe fine Mimosas or top shelf vodka Bloody Mary’s!
Now that will do wonders for reducing the schisms around the table…
May 25, 2008 at 12:19 pm
too funny
too sad though too because of the reality in it
May 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm
LOL!
jim,
Omelettes? I thought we were having waffles!
jamie,
I’ll try to remember that.
Must hate the bacon. Must hate the bacon. Must hate the bacon.
traveller,
Maybe it would just be easier to go to Perkins and have our breakfast cooked and served.
alan,
Oh, not Perkins! I meant Starbucks.
joseph,
I have noticed that alcohol has a tendency to diminish sectarianism.
May 25, 2008 at 1:00 pm
There will eventually be someone come in who wants to meet later and call it “brunch”
May 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm
make sure the coffee is fair trade or I’m not commin’!!!
May 25, 2008 at 2:40 pm
LOL …
Especially since I just got back from Sunday Morning Brunch (with coffee, juices and Mimosas) with our Tuesday Night Missional Group … where we realized that we had become church together.
In all the good ways, of course. 
We bring food potluck — each person contributing something (I brought the juices), and for the past 15 weeks, no one has complained about the food.
…LOVE bacon….
May 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Too funny and too true. I love going out with people for breakfast or coffee we have some great conversations…I gave up all meetings 5 years ago and I can’t say I miss them either. You’re on a roll…
May 25, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Grace,
If we go to Starbucks or Perkins we will miss the clean up where all the good conversation occurs…..unless we bless the Perkins and Starbucks folks by doing the clean up for them.
May 25, 2008 at 7:20 pm
jeff,
I rescued you from the spam bin. I don’t understand why your comments often go there. I’m sorry if I’ve missed any. I try to check it routinely.
fred,
Brunch isn’t really breakfast, is it?
lori,
You sound like one of those emerging breakfast people.
peggy and kim,
I’m happy that you each have found a satisfying breakfast situation.
traveller,
That’s true, but the cooks at the restaurant have more experience at cooking, there is a greater variety of menu items, we don’t have to get to know the people at the table next to us, and we can just walk away from the mess without getting our hands dirty.
May 25, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Dang!! I’m poorer for having missed the breakfast here this morning… ;o)
btw, either bacon or sausage is fine by me.
T
May 25, 2008 at 10:20 pm
What – no ham?!?!?
May 25, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Breakfast Club ay?
hmmm….
what was it?
-the basket-case
-the rebel
-the jock
-the brain and …
-the princess
I don’t think I could pull off the Molly Ringwald thing…so I’ll probably just have to go for the basket-case role
We could meet once a week and call our church
St. Arbucks!
May 26, 2008 at 8:53 am
Grace:
I think a few have not been rescued. They (my comments) never show up immediately.
I assumed that I got banned and was getting admin moderated
May 26, 2008 at 11:30 am
Ham ‘n St. Arbucks…!!
May 26, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Will we be having omlets, omeletes, or omelettes? What is the etymology of the word? And what kind of omelettes did Jesus eat? Surely not ham and cheese.
Oh no! This is scary. I did a google on breakfast in the bible and found this: a recipe for Holy Raspberries! (prep and cooking time 45 minutes)
http://www.biblicalcooking.com/breakfast.html
May 27, 2008 at 8:01 am
tom, katherine, 7catz, and gary.
Glad you could join us.
Jeff,
I’m sorry that I have missed some of your comments. I’ve started checking the spam more often now. Your comments should show up immediately, and I can’t understand why they don’t. Sometimes when people include links, their posts get flagged, but it seems like all of yours are getting held up.
May 28, 2008 at 6:27 am
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May 31, 2008 at 2:32 pm
LOL to funny but the sad thing is how much there is in it. Its so much easier to focus on what divides us than what unites up