I’m not really sure about Mochas. I don’t know if they’re for coffee drinkers who like chocolate or chocolate lovers who want a little coffee boost. I like coffee and I don’t really like any flavors in it, except coffee. I really like chocolate, but I don’t like coffee in my chocolate.
The other day I was at an office where they were giving out free chocolate bars to Dads in honor of Father’s Day. A friend of mine owns this business and asked me if I preferred chocolate with almonds or without. I said, “Without, please.” Immediately she and her coworker started to laugh. They had a friendly bet about my answer. My friend thought I would like with nuts and her coworker thought I would prefer plain. In fact, my friend wanted to purchase only chocolate bars with almonds, because she was convinced that everyone would prefer to have the added nuts. She even asked me, “What’s the matter? Don’t you like nuts?”
I explained that I truly liked chocolate and that I really liked nuts. I just don’t like them together. Obviously, they make many kinds of chocolate bars with nuts, so there must be many people who do like the added nuts. I just prefer to enjoy one thing at a time.
Sometimes the simplicity of things seems best to me. Life is often complicated and complex. Simple is good. We don’t always get to choose simple, because complicated just happens. Also, the reason that I know that I prefer my chocolate and coffee plain is because I’ve tried the chocolate with nuts, as well as a mocha or two. So sometimes we choose more complex things. Sometimes we cannot avoid the complexities of life and sometimes we get a great deal out of life from that very same nature of complexity. We learn, we grow and because of it, we can come to appreciate the simple things a little more.
Our lives are often busy and full of complex situations. We would do well to remain mindful of this and remember to stop and find the simple things, the easy things and the beautiful things in life and take time to dwell on them.
So, whether you’re a mocha and chocolate with almonds kind of person or a plain chocolate and coffee-no flavor type, take time this week to let your mind wander away from the complicated things in life. While you’re sipping that drink or munching that bar, let you heart and mind wander to the simple and beautiful things in life. Blessings!

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