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SURFING WITH JESUS #469032607
Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr.
gene@SurfingwithJesus.com.

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 in life. Offering his guests coffee,the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot ofcoffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal,some plain-looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them tohelp themselves to the coffee, and cream and sugar.

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 towant only the best for yourselves, THAT is the source of your problemsand stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to thecoffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive, and in some cases evenhides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not thecup, but you consciously went for the best cups . . . And then, youbegan eyeing each other's cups."

"Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position insociety are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, andthe type of cup we have does not define, nor change, the quality of Lifewe live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoythe coffee God has provided us."

"God brews the coffee, not the cups . . . Enjoy your coffee! Thehappiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make thebest of everything they have."

Thanks for sharing with us Marilyn. Since I don’t like coffee I’ll enjoy my tea.

1John 1: 9 “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr., 2355 Parkway Dr SE, Cleveland, TN 37323
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