Life is busy- just look at your calendars leading up to the new year (if not your calendar then come take a look at mine). Life is full of stress- again look at your calendars with so many things to do and not enough time or funds to do them all. Life is full of choices- oh wait look at your calendars once again. Read this story that focuses on enjoying the coffee. (This from a guy who is not yet old enough to drink coffee--  Ha! So for me it's enjoy the tea...)
            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, being too busy to enjoy life and do all the things they would like to do, etc.. Offering his guests some 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.

After 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's normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that's the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that in most cases the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee, just more expense, and in some cases it 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 began eyeing each other's cups.

            "Now consider this: Life is the coffee: the jobs, the money and the position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life. 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."

            Here's a takeaway: God brews the coffee, not the cups. Slow down, take a deep breath, relax  and enjoy your coffee (or tea).

God is Good All The Time!

Jason Yarbrough

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