Tea, Tarot and Jesus

There is a wonderful tea room around the corner from where I work.  Every couple of weeks,  a friend and colleague of mine and I meet for afternoon tea and treats.  Each of us own a least one set of oracle cards.  His favourite is a Mother Peace tarot set.  My favorite is a Faery Card deck.
   Today as we sipped Moonlight Lavender tea and nibbled on pink iced chocolate cupcakes we decided to do a  tarot reading.  He just happened to have his tarot deck in his briefcase.  We began shuffling, drawing and laying our our cards on the lovely white lace tablecloth.  As each card was drawn my friend would read the description.  It is important to note, that we were being very discreet and quiet about what we were doing.  We didn't want to disturb other patrons who might not share our love of cards.  Also, we both happen to be mainline Protestant ministers who work in smaller size city.  Our parishioners might not understand the whole concept!   Though I laughingly suggested that maybe the owner would let us do tarot readings for folks a couple of afternoons a week, just to supplement our income. Tarot and tea rooms seem to go together.
   As we continued the reading I noticed a young couple with an infant on the other side of the room.  We couldn't hear their conversation, nor could they hear ours.  We were almost finished when the mother gathered up the baby to leave.  She left and the husband came over to our table.  We both thought that he was coming to ask us to do a reading or be inquisitive about it.  However, he said he had felt moved to share a word with us.  He quoted from the Gospel of John the passage about Jesus being the Way, the Truth, the Life.  He wanted us to know that Jesus was our hope and our way to life. We smiled and said thank you to the young man who was earnestly concerned about our spiritual well being. We did not mention what we do for a living.  The young man would have been embarrassed and really we don't need the news story of two ministers reading tarot cards at the local tea room story appearing the local paper.  It might be bad for business, or maybe not.  It might be just the thing we need to get us going in the right direction!
    From the young man's comment, it was evident, Jesus doesn't like tarot.  Though I myself would argue that.  I think God/Universe/ Spirit/ The Holy One or whatever you want to call a Higher Being chooses to speak in a variety of ways.  I would like to think Jesus would have enjoyed the tea, company and cards.  I think he would especially enjoyed the cupcakes!