Angel,
Thanks for sharing this, there is a great lesson here to be learned!  I hope 
you are doing well.  Huggs and blessings!
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Angel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 12:05 PM
Subject: life's lessons


Now this is a keeper as well and deserves some thought.life's lessons


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 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, 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 began eyeing each
other's cups

Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and 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