Venti blessings

Have you ever stopped to think about the names of coffee sizes at Starbucks? No?

They are "tall," which is paradoxically, the smallest size; "grande," which is actually a medium, but sounds really big, and "venti," which seems to be a made up word, and means in Starbucks lingo, "great big coffee." Does anyone besides me feel silly using these words? Part of my problem is that I can't usually remember which one means small, which one means medium, and which one means large. To me they all sound like large. Do I want a large, a large, or a large drink?

Could it be that Starbucks uses these size names to avoid sounding as if any of their cup sizes are skimpy?

I wish we would do the same thing. God's blessings are large, large, or large, and yet sometimes we insist of calling them "short."

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Luke 6:38)
Brad Smart said on Friday night at the Emmaus Gathering that God is everything we need. We so seldom believe that.

If a church has a mission -- something that God has planned specifically for our congregation to do in our particular point on the map -- then what tool for that mission could we possibly be missing? What talent could we be lacking when we combine forces?

Our blessings are venti (or is it grande?). What do we miss the signs of abundance and insist on recognizing scarcity?