THIS IS A NICE SIMPLE STORY SHARED BY A FRIEND..SOMETHING TO PONDER..
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.
All the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the
professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensivecups
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.
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