Enjoy The Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together tovisit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned intocomplaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, theprofessor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and anassortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to thecoffee.When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "Ifyou noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leavingbehind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to wantonly the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems andstress. Be assured that the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee inmost cases, 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 consciouslywent for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position insociety are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and thetype 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 Godhas provided us."God brews the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee.