ENJOY THE COFFEE

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit an old university professor.

Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and in 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. Since it is only normal for you to want the very best for yourselves, that becomes the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that, in most cases, the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; jobs, money, and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life.

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 is providing for us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups........ ..enjoy your coffee.

Enjoy what GOD gives you -- it's the only thing of REAL value.


"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."


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