God's coffee

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.

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paid for in full for a glass of milk

One day a poor boy went begging from door to door to feed his hungry stomach. He knocked on a door & a lovely lady opened, instead of asking for food he asked for a glass of water. The woman thought he looked hungry so she brought him a glass of milk, after drinking he said “thank you, I owe you” She replied “you owe nothing, no payment needed for act of kindness” he said “then i thank you from my heart”.

Years later that woman became critically ill that the doctors baffled as they couldn’t cure her, so specialists were called to study the rare illness. Dr Haward Kelly who was called for consultation immediately recognized the woman. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life & after a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr Kelly requested the bill be passed to him for approval, he looked at the huge bill & wrote something on it, and then the bill was sent to the lady’s room. 

The lady feared opening it as she knew the bill could take a life time to pay off. When she eventually opened it, she noticed something written on the edge of the note “PAID FOR IN FULL FOR A GLASS OF MILK”. Tears filled her as she immediately remembered the rugged dirty skinny boy who knocked on her door. My dear friends, family &my loved ones always remember that every act of kindness you sow doesn’t bounce back, it reproduces itself, not necessarily before your eyes but it always does even to your next generation. “THE HEART YOU SAVE TODAY CAN BE YOURS TOMORROW THROUGH KINDNESS.

by: anonymous