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God's Coffee

God's Coffee
God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to 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 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 was 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 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, and not the cups. Now consider this : life is coffee, the jobs, money and position in society are 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 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.

God's Coffee
God's Coffee

God's Coffee
God's Coffee
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