Hot Chocolate

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said, "Notice that all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... and then you began eyeing each other's cups.

"Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate!" - Lovingly, Rev. John

Bytes of Wisdom. . .

Healing in its fullest sense requires looking into your heart and expanding your awareness of who you are. - Michelle Gaynor

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. - Roger Staubach

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen; guides the bird in flight is in us all. Anzia Yesierska

No matter what language we speak, we all live under the same moon and stars. - John Denver

A little Holy humor. . .

Sin comes from a roman term meaning "to miss the mark." That should take a load of guilt from many people's minds.

Flattery is telling others exactly what they think of themselves.

A friend of mine, who had been in an auto accident, had to wear an elaborate metal neck brace that encircled her head. One day, while sitting in a doctor's waiting room, she noticed a young boy staring at her. To put him at ease, she explained that she had been in a car wreck. In wide-eyed wonder, he pointed to her neck braced and said, "Is that part of the car?" - Robin Morgan

In the mail. . .

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