Drink the Coffee

[Rhonda]

Drink the coffee...

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. He offered 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, and told them to help themselves to the coffee. All the students had a cup of coffee in hand.

The professor said, "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but 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.  The cup 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 began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and 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.

[Janet Harrington]

I love that, Rhonda.  I have seen it somewhere before and am glad you shared it here.

[Teresa]

That is so right.. and I had read that a long time ago.. so I was glad to have seen it again.