Comments on: From my Starbucks cup http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/ Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds... this blog has moved to www.TheRieslands.com Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Zack http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-469 Zack Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:55:15 +0000 http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-469 Hi Karen, Thanks for your visit to my little space on the web. So it sounds like you may be the very person written about on the cup! What a small stinkin' world! I'm with you about the 'pay it forward' idea, except that I call it 'love'. And that's why I can't wait for the teaching of Jesus to be understood and applied around the world! Imagine if everyone always loved their neighbor.... Hi Karen,

Thanks for your visit to my little space on the web.

So it sounds like you may be the very person written about on the cup! What a small stinkin’ world!

I’m with you about the ‘pay it forward’ idea, except that I call it ‘love’. And that’s why I can’t wait for the teaching of Jesus to be understood and applied around the world! Imagine if everyone always loved their neighbor….

]]> By: Karen http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-442 Karen Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:46:00 +0000 http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-442 There was a movement a few years ago about Random Acts of Kindness. I was teaching at a high school in Colorado Springs when teachers were encouraged to get their students to participate. As a result of that movement I ended up meeting Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary, who was active with the movement and wrote a song called "Don't Laugh at Me." Anyway... even though it has been years and I run a language company now and don't teach high school anymore, I occasionally perform acts of random kindness just for fun. I was on a business trip in southern California and driving from San Fernando where I visited my grandparents for a couple of days and stopped in Riverside to go through a Starbucks drive-through. When I went to pay, it tickled me to think how cool it would be to pay for the car behind me and then drive away as quickly as I could. In my rear view mirror I could see a couple. I paid for my drink and asked to pay for theirs. They had ordered not just drinks but pumpkin bread and yadda yadda and I thought... oh well... just my luck. =D I paid and drove quickly back to the highway in my rental car. It wasn't until I got a Chai this morning and read my cup that I knew that there was a possiblity that the couple behind me paid for the car behind them.... and that it caused a chain reaction. It's a Pay it Forward kind of thing... and today.... small as the world is... that random act of kindness from more than a year ago came back to me on a Starbucks cup. I was absolutely overwhelmed and drove to the Starbucks drive-through near Old Colorado City and did it again. There was a movement a few years ago about Random Acts of Kindness. I was teaching at a high school in Colorado Springs when teachers were encouraged to get their students to participate. As a result of that movement I ended up meeting Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary, who was active with the movement and wrote a song called “Don’t Laugh at Me.”

Anyway… even though it has been years and I run a language company now and don’t teach high school anymore, I occasionally perform acts of random kindness just for fun.

I was on a business trip in southern California and driving from San Fernando where I visited my grandparents for a couple of days and stopped in Riverside to go through a Starbucks drive-through. When I went to pay, it tickled me to think how cool it would be to pay for the car behind me and then drive away as quickly as I could. In my rear view mirror I could see a couple. I paid for my drink and asked to pay for theirs. They had ordered not just drinks but pumpkin bread and yadda yadda and I thought… oh well… just my luck. =D I paid and drove quickly back to the highway in my rental car.

It wasn’t until I got a Chai this morning and read my cup that I knew that there was a possiblity that the couple behind me paid for the car behind them…. and that it caused a chain reaction.

It’s a Pay it Forward kind of thing… and today…. small as the world is… that random act of kindness from more than a year ago came back to me on a Starbucks cup. I was absolutely overwhelmed and drove to the Starbucks drive-through near Old Colorado City and did it again.

]]> By: stephen http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-170 stephen Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:34:30 +0000 http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-170 that's a really cool thing to see happen... it happened four or five times when I worked at a drive through store. a three dollar gift of spontaneity and anonymity can go a really long way to uplift a person... that’s a really cool thing to see happen… it happened four or five times when I worked at a drive through store. a three dollar gift of spontaneity and anonymity can go a really long way to uplift a person…

]]> By: Josh R http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-168 Josh R Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:49:41 +0000 http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-168 Funny, I have the same cup in front of me. I wouldn't have noticed If I hadn't read your blog post. Funny, I have the same cup in front of me. I wouldn’t have noticed If I hadn’t read your blog post.

]]> By: Los http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-167 Los Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:28:44 +0000 http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/#comment-167 HA. Yea. That is rad HA. Yea. That is rad

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