| The Story of the coffee cup.I remember in collage one of my professors told use a story about a cup of Coffee. he told us how one day he was standing down front with a cup in his hand. as he stood there talking to a student, someone walked by and bumped his hand. his cup got tipped and some of the coffee ended up on the floor. my professor then ask us a strange question. he said, "Why was there coffee on the floor."
As a class we batted many ideas back and forth. some said because the person who bumped him was careless. some said it was the teacher who was careless. there were probably as many ideas about why the coffee was on the floor as there were students in the class. after a lively discussion, my professor held up his hand and stopped us. he said, while many of our idea were true and contributed to the coffee spill, we had missed the most basic reason. there was coffee on the floor because there was coffee in the cup.
So you are probably wondering why I am telling you a story about coffee. well this story is an illustration about our lives and how we respond to trials in our circumstances. the cup represents different aspects of our character. in reality we don't have just one cup but many cups. through out our lives we have filled the different cups with different things. some have water, some have coffee, some have grape juice, and some have bitter Gaul. when these cups get bumped then the contence come out and can ruin the carpet. if our cup that gets bumped has coffee or juice, then the carpet is stained and clothes could be ruined. if the cup only has water then no harm done.
here is the point. we can't always prevent the bumps that will come. sometimes we just have to work damage control. since we can't prevent the bumps then we need to work to change what is in our cups so when we get bumped, people around us are not stained by our coffee. also when we do get bumped and we find the coffee spilling out, we need to be all the more diligent to replace that cup with water
I hope this has made sense. I have seeing some areas in my life where when I have gotten bumped, the out came coffee. I am striving to change these to the Glory of God.
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| a disturbing thoughtyesterday I had the chance to talk to a good friend of mine. she has been struggling with her spiritual walk. she told me that it had been some time since she had read the bible. we talked about how important it is to read the word and why peoples opinions don't matter but God's opinion does. I was trying to think of a way to get her to see how bad it was that she is being a spiritual anorexic. that's when the thought occurred to me. we are always so concerned about girls who don't eat and get dangerously thin. yet so often we see people who are not reading the word and are spiritually starved as simply apathetic. we don't have nearly the concern for people's spiritual walk that we should. those we care about need to know that when we are not eating the bread of life then we are in much worse shape than Nicole Ritchie ever could be.
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| Thanksgiving and other fun thingswell thanksgiving has come and gone. another oppertunity to feast and gorge ourselves has passed for another year. as usual, I ate way to much yet I can't say I regret anything. my family really has never had any "traditions" to speak of. so I have tried to start a few (With out much luck). I keep changing how and where I spent thanksgiving. anyhow enough fiddling around.
Today was the first real snow fall of the year. we got a dusting this morning and then a little snow all day. this is so different that what I am used to. growing up in OH and spending 4 years in NY I am used to lots of snow and ice yet here if you get even a dusting then people start wigging out. for three days the weather men have been warning of the imanent "disaster" of snow. and then it turns out to be a little of nothing. there was snow ad ice but not anything that even really effected me.
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| Yet another opportunity to see God at workOn Sunday night, I was driving to church and I felt my car "chug" really hard and now it does not want to drive forward (or Backward for that matter). I think I have a major problem with my transmission. I called around and all the mechanics are telling my that it will cost about $3000. I have no idea where I am going to get that kind of money to repair my car. But you know what? I have a God who can take care of it. I am excited to see how God is going to help me through this. HE already has a plan and all I have to do is be patient and wait. This is really hard because I am not a patient person. My heart says I want things fixed now but God is saying wait.
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