Anime Lectio: BARTENDER Glass of God

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

I actually don't drink alcohol, but my mom used to be a bartender before she became a licensed school counselor.  When I was growing up, I remembered going to places where she worked as a bartender.  Besides knowing how to make drinks for people, she also knew how to help them with their problems when conversations would inevitably happen.  A bartender doesn't just help people feel better by making drinks for them, but also by talking with them.  This can also be seen in the series BARTENDER Glass of God. 

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

When the owner of a hotel wants to find a really good bartender to operate the special bar in his hotel, two of his employees end up searching for this bartender.  They end up finding this bartender working in a bar that's not easy to find.  After seeing what this bartender can do, which is seemingly make the right drink for his customers based on what he can see, what these customers tell him, and other things (several examples throughout the series), they try to convince him to work at the hotel they work in.  After enough prodding, even some from the hotel owner, he eventually decides to help out other people in the special bar in this hotel. 

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

I may not know much about alcohol (the kinds, how to make mixed drinks, etc.) from watching my mom work as a bartender growing up, but I do know that people need help based on what they are going through. Bars just happen to be places where people get this help sometimes. What helps with this is what is known as the Glass of God. The Glass of God isn't a particular drink, but it's the right drink for a particular person based on what they need due to what they are going through when they end up at a bar. As someone who sits in on the Alateen, or Alcoholics Anonymous for teenagers, group in the school where I work, the Glass of God, in a sense, can help people in this group too (I have a history of addiction in my family). The people in this group definitely don't need the right drink, or any drink for that matter, since we don't need that at all, but what we do need, which is true for everyone, is the right thing to hear.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can all hear what we need to hear, as well as experience what we need to experience, wherever we want and/or need to be.