A Cup of Coffee :)

A friend sent me this, it was so awesome, had 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 into 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 have been 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.”
The professor continued, “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 begin eyeing each other’s cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position 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. Savor the coffee, NOT the cups! 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.”

My thoughts and prayers are that you do NOT get burdened down with things of the world. That you seek first the Kingdom of God – surrender ALL to your Father in heaven. That your coffee IS Love and Peace, that only our Lord can give. That you thank the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for moments granted on earth – to be used wisely and to His Glory and Honor. In Jesus’ Name. Thy Will be done. Amen.”