The Cup of 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 former 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!

~~Author Unknown~~

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Quit worrying about what the "Jones's" have and enjoy what
YOU have instead!

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