Theology begins with Tea

 Decemebr 15 was Drink Tea Day, and at that point, I was drinking about a billion cups of tea and working frantically for my class, so I wasn’t able to tell you about it.

So this post is in honor of tea, my favorite hot drink.

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis
 

Why I love tea (an abridged list):

• It places pleasure and beauty over efficiency. It slows us down.  We kick back on the porch with it in the summertime, and we have to wait for it to cool in the wintertime. 
• It is healthful.  Chamomile helps my headaches or a sore throat, ginger tea takes away stomach aches, and green, red, and white teas are  full of anti-oxidants. 
• It brings people together. The best conversations happen over tea.
• It taste so good and so varied. Rooibos with milk, mint, chai, green, red, raspberry, rose petal, or plain old English Black tea. The taste options are endless here.
• It is a key ingredient of hospitality. I learned this in Ireland.
• It is cheery and comforting, like an old friend.
• I don’t know if it is the beauty, the taste, the steam, or that it slows me down, but resting with a cup of tea helps me to think bigger, greater thoughts- about life, God, or friends, and it even helps me to think little good thoughts, like how grateful I am for socks.

you gotta see this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1l93DJpnXs

Thanks James for the Tea Day update and the video!

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