"coffee and life"

In keeping with my reverie on coffee, especially in relation to spilling it being a metaphor for spilling grace and good favor, a new relationship with the wonderful stuff came before my eyes today via the forum where I have membership.

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 but normal for youto want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money, clothes, houses, cars, motorcycles and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided." So, don't let the cups drive you, enjoy the coffee instead

The moral of the story for us I think, my love, is that whatever we do, it mustn't be driven by the cup we hold, but by the substance the cup contains. And this is not as easy as it seems.
Now reaching to my left on the desk I see it is indeed time to go get a refill...

...As for my favorite cups to use: they are the ones you bring me as souvenirs from all over the country, the big ones that I use so that I don't have to go up and down the stairs so often, the ones I use unless the kids have beaten me to them, using them as substitute cereal bowls. (grin)