Word of the Post
Today's word is: ubiquitous
/yu*bik"wi*tous/ adjective
Being present everywhere at once; omnipresent. God's Love for You is ubiquitous.
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God's 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 students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said the following.
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 the coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. Then you began eying 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. 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 that God has provided us.
God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
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Thank you for letting me put random stuff out there. I have been thinking a lot about my coffee cups, and forgetting the coffee is burning. Bad analogy for me... I don't like coffee. It matters little. I need to focus more on the brewing.
6 comments:
I'll take coffee in a paper cup. No matter. Well I know that wasn't the point of your post. Just saying.
Can I have chai instead. And I know it shouldn't matter, but I think aesthetically and psychologically speaking, the cup does sometimes make the chai/tea/coffee/whatever taste better. Perhaps this is the metaphorical equivalent of really finding your niche in life....for example, having a career that uses your God given talents and makes you appreciate all that God has given you.
I agree with Tawnya... I prefer Chai, or a mocha. Or Hot Chocolate, or my own special spiced tea. I am not so great with Tea by itself or coffee.
How'd that country song go?.."I do my drinkin' from a dixie cup."
I'll take the coffee in whatever it comes. I actually prefer anything but plastic. Most plastic has an offensive flavor profile to me.
Good thought, though. It is what is in the cup that matters, not the vessel. Now wasn't there a passage in Romans about that?..
"I'm a Member of the Country Club" by Travis Tritt. That was it! (How "Dr. Seussian" of me)
I'll drink the coffee from anything that won't transfer the warmth onto my delicate fingers. :-)
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