I said that I wanted to get an espresso machine (because there aren't a ton of cafes in Savan) and just because I love lattes. I also have lots of meetings with the girls and most of them also enjoy coffee - so I thought it would be easy to make coffee at home instead of always going to a cafe. I said I would get one if it was around $100, but I hadn't been to Thailand yet to check them out. (Little did I know that they are a bit more than $100!)
I forgot a few things up in Vientiane that I wanted Julia to send down on the bus to me. She sent them down Friday night, so early Saturday morning, I went to the bus station to pick up my 3 boxes.
When I opened them I was surprised with this beauty! Julia's so good with analogies and such. She had been having a hard time with me leaving and she said this espresso machine is like our friendship - our friendship will continue to be deep and rich but it will be in smaller doses now. How true!
She also left a sweet note! How love is costly and she wants to love extravagantly! We are so very different - we give and receive love in different ways, but this is definitely a way I feel loved - she knows of my love of coffee too.
I've been thinking of loving extravagantly - I'm so often so stingy with my love. Or it's easy to love certain people, but I want to love everyone extravagantly - even those who I don't like all too much. And when I think of the ultimate gift of love on the cross and how costly that was, it makes me want to love others freely and extravagantly too!
