A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. The 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 and 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, it’s 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, houses, cars, things,
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.
Now, enjoy your coffee.
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Dr Bob, www.grif.net
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