Have A Cup Of Coffee
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, 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
GOOD MORNING !
I am enjoying my coffee this morning. I usually use one of those plastic kind of cups that has a lid on it, so I don’t knock it over on the keyboard.
The last few days has been heavenly weather wise. We were blessed with cool nights and very pleasant days. I got the windows open and let in some fresh air for a change.
Today we’ll begin to heat up again, but that’s ok, I’m not ready for fall quite yet. I’m going to be off to church as always and will be saying some prayers for all of you. Please say a little prayer for our Troops and for peace in the middle east .
God Bless You !
Hope you all are enjoy your good cup of coffee this morning too !
Thought for Today
The more you give,
The more you get—
The more you laugh,
The less you fret!
Helen Steiner Rice
May your day be blessed with a few SMILES and lots of SUNSHINE to warm your heart.
MA
4 comments:
Well I hope you enjoyed your cup of coffee. Hope your weekend is going great and have a great day on Monday. Back to work. I go back on Friday.
Happy Birthdays, Anniversarys and Back to School to everyone!
Oh too bad about the hair cut.... :)
Enjoyed the pics of everyone!
Hope the washer is good as new...
Have a great week at work!
Linda :)
seems like yesterday tey got married time sure had flown by
Hi there. Feeel like I've not been over in what....a week now? I think of you daily though.
Send some of that cool weather here. Well, I guess it was a bit cooler today. Nice breeze and plenty of cloud cover kept it in the low 80's I think.
Take care and have a good week. I can' t wait til the next weekend.
Sonya
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