Coffee

I recently received this in e-mail form and found it to be interesting.

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!

"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.