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.
After 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
unconsciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each others 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.
