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I am taking my own advice and craving out this time to spend with myself and with you. My priority is a little different now. I am going to sit back and “Enjoy the Coffee.” Let me share a little story that I once heard. “A group of alumni, highly established in their careers got together to visit their old university professor. They begin to talk and soon their conversation turned toward many of the stresses and problems in their lives. The professor just looked at all the nicely dressed women, who seemed like they didn’t have a problem in the world, and quietly turned from her invited guest and went into the kitchen.

The professor returned shortly with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups- porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, and some just plain looking. Some cups were expensive, some exquisite, some just chipped, and old…The Professor invited her guest to help themselves to a cup and have a cup of coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hand, the professor said. “ you notice , all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind, the plain and cheap ones. while it is normal for us to want the very best for ourselves, that is the source of many of our problems and stresses. Let me assure you that cup itself added no quality to the coffee. It was just more expensive and in most cases it even hid the coffee. The whole idea for getting the cup was to hold the coffee. But consciously many of you went for the best cups, and then began eyeing each others cups. Now consider this; if the coffee was symbolically “Life.” And the “CUP” is the job, money and position in society. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of the life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee that God has brewed for us. God brews the coffee, not the cups…

Enjoy your Coffee.