Spillled Coffee
I’d like to begin this post with a story that has been around for quite a while and that nobody seems to know where it came from. Here it is… Imagine that you are holding a cup of coffee when someone bumps into you and you spill your coffee everywhere. Someone asks you “Why did you spill coffee?” Maybe you answer by saying “Because someone bumped into me.” But this is wrong. You spilled coffee because there was coffee in your cup. If there were mint tea in your cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is in your cup is what will spill out. This is how your life operates, too. When life comes along and pokes or shakes you, and poking will happen, whatever is inside of you will come pouring out. It’s easy to pretend about ourselves, until we get rattled. So each of us has to ask ourselves, what is in my cup? When difficulties and frustrations come up, what spills out all over fro...
