I didn't write this, but found it a few years ago and wanted to share.
A group of alumni, highly established
in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the
professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,
some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When
all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you
noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the
plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for
yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the
cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more
expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really
wanted was the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best
cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is
the coffee. The jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just
tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define,
nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the
cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
"The happiest people
don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the
rest to God.
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