Coffee Cups

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COFFE CUPS

Author Unknown

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. He told the group 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 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

the 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.

You are the miracle, my friend, your life either shines a light - or

casts a shadow