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Love Works
A philosophy for the Love Coffee Model

Observations from Dave McGee and Pat McMurry

Love works.

Not as sentimentality or naïve idealism, but as lived reality.

At Love Coffee, we believe love is practical - it is effective.

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It’s said that the ways of love are too soft for a world shaped by efficiency, power, and fear.

But history tells a different story.

 

The rules of the marketplace can produce compliance. They struggle to produce healing, to produce dignity, to produce transformation or to restore a human life.

 

Love works because it meets people where they are and invites them into who they can become.

Every day at Love Coffee, we see this truth take shape:

  • In meaningful work that restores confidence and purpose

  • In patient training that honors ability - rather than highlighting limitation

  • In relationships that say, “You belong here",  before anything is earned.

 

This is not charity rooted in pity.  It is Love rooted in belief:

  • Love of Created Reality, a Benevolent Universe, which many call God

  • Love of Others

  • Love of Self.

 

These are not separate ideas or optional virtues. They are inseparable realities. When one is missing, the others unravel.

 

At Love Coffee:

  • Believing in Love - means honoring the Humanity in every person.

  • Loving others - means creating space where dignity, contribution, and growth are real.

  • Loving oneself - means discovering—often for the first time—that your work matters and your presence is valued.

 

This is not one strategy among many.  We believe It is the only strategy that actually works.

The Marketplace often confuses strength with control and success with speed. But people do not flourish under pressure alone. They flourish where patience, consistency, and belief are practiced over time. Transformation does not happen through fear of failure—it happens through trust.  

 

This is why Love Coffee exists.

  • We are not trying to “fix” people. We are refusing to write them off.

  • True justice is not dismissal or marginalization - it is restoration.

  • True leadership does not dominate - it serves.

  • And real change does not come from exclusion, but from invitation.

 

The measure of love is always how it treats the most vulnerable—those who are overlooked, underestimated, or misunderstood. If Love does not move us toward them, then something essential is lost.

  • Love of others is inseparable from one's love of themself.

  • Love of yourself is inseparable from Love Itself.

 

Understanding Love matters, Love - not as theory - but as practice.

 

If our understanding of Reality is truly humanitarian, then everything bends toward restoration. Toward patience. Toward hope. Toward the belief that No One is disposable.

  • Love works.

  • Not because it’s easy—

  • but because it’s True.

 

At Love Coffee, we are building a place where this belief in Love becomes visible.

 

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