Spark of the Day - Hot Chocolate
A groupof graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunionand decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. Duringtheir visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in theirwork and lives.. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor wentinto the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and anassortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, someexpensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hotchocolate.
When they all had a cup of hot chocolatein hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensivecups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normalfor you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of yourproblems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing tothe quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensiveand in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wantedwas 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 toolsto hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor changethe 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 hotchocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the bestof everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.
Live simply. Love generously.Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate
