Monday, June 7, 2010

God's Coffee


I recently Graduated High school and am currently embarking in a new adventure. Even though it has only been days, i still talk to all my best friends and have even spoken to one or two teachers. I wonder if years from now i will be able to get together with them and discuss life.


I came across a story of a group of alumni getting together to talk about their lives, this is how it went:

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 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 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 is 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 you began eyeing each other's cups.


Now consider this: Life is the coffee; 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!


Maybe today you find yourself in an overwelming situation. Maybe you are reflecting on your life and for some reason your not satisfied with what you have. Maybe you thought your life would be different. Maybe you are seeing other peoples lives and wishing it was your life.

God brews the coffee, and he has made sure it is EXACTLY what you need, perhaps you are paying too much attention to the cup. Think about it, without the cup is it still not coffee? Be grateful because God has given you life, something more than 500 people did not have today alone.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want." ~Oscar Wilde