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Last Post 03/20/2020 10:47 AM by  Dee Stewart
Inspirational Stories from Beliefnet-Wisdom in a Cup
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03/20/2020 10:47 AM
    A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit an old university professor. Conversation soon turned in 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 andan 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 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 you drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup. But you went for the best cups, and then began eyeing each other's cups."

    The professor continued, "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 appearance of the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.
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