A Good Cup Of Coffee
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I feel a bit better and can breath without pain today, yay! I am at that stage of recovery that makes you think you have more umph that you really do. I decided to vacuum and mop. Our house is tiny, so it's not a real big chore... Today it was! I had to stop and rest four times. Now I am just lazily tired and will do some decadent thing like watching TV instead of writing a decent blog. But I have a treat sent by the above friend, Kat. Read it with care, then spend a few minutes looking inward. I hope it impacts you as much as it did me.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to 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, of porcelain, plastic, glass, and crystal - some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When each of the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up first, 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 'nicer' cup is just more expensive, and the more impressive cup may come to appear more important than what it contains. 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 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. If we concentrate on the cup, we may fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God, not the cups, brews the coffee... enjoy your coffee.
I feel a bit better and can breath without pain today, yay! I am at that stage of recovery that makes you think you have more umph that you really do. I decided to vacuum and mop. Our house is tiny, so it's not a real big chore... Today it was! I had to stop and rest four times. Now I am just lazily tired and will do some decadent thing like watching TV instead of writing a decent blog. But I have a treat sent by the above friend, Kat. Read it with care, then spend a few minutes looking inward. I hope it impacts you as much as it did me.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to 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, of porcelain, plastic, glass, and crystal - some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When each of the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up first, 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 'nicer' cup is just more expensive, and the more impressive cup may come to appear more important than what it contains. 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 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. If we concentrate on the cup, we may fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God, not the cups, brews the coffee... enjoy your coffee.
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