Enjoy your coffee!

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » July 29, 2006 9:44 am

Enjoy 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.

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 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, 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

Life is God's gift to us. The way we live it, is our gift to God.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » July 29, 2006 10:01 am

thanks!! great point..

Crazy Navy Flyer · Post by **Crazy Navy Flyer** » July 29, 2006 10:03 am

Great thought for the day.

PHAW Webmistress · Post by **PHAW Webmistress** » July 29, 2006 10:07 am

Crazy Navy Flyer wrote:Great thought for the day.

wSs!!!! I likey

BahamaBreeze · Post by **BahamaBreeze** » July 29, 2006 10:16 am

Wow...thanks!
Makes you refocus on what is important.

cocotel · Post by **cocotel** » July 29, 2006 10:17 am

Excellent!!

El mojito · Post by **El mojito** » July 29, 2006 10:56 am

Some days you feel like the coffee and some days you feel like the grounds.

but is it the cup that holds life together

AdamBomb8 · Post by **AdamBomb8** » July 29, 2006 11:02 am

I can only drink decaf. I have a pretty cheap cup.

Prthd119 · Post by **Prthd119** » July 29, 2006 11:15 am

Thanks Bonnie..
Nice way to start the day....!

(and as long as I get my coffee?? I don't care what it's in...!

)

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » July 29, 2006 12:54 pm

last coffee I got was in a paper cup..

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » July 29, 2006 7:28 pm

Prthd119 wrote:Thanks Bonnie..
Nice way to start the day....!

(and as long as I get my coffee?? I don't care what it's in...! )

I thought you'd like it, Java Queen!

Midnight Flyer · Post by **Midnight Flyer** » July 29, 2006 7:40 pm

I just pick whatever cup fits in the cup holder

scubamyk · Post by **scubamyk** » July 30, 2006 11:22 am

"with a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine"