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Be Wiser and Trust

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-     Ernest Hemingway  

It is often difficult to tell the difference between right and wrong. Most judgments are complicated, and as reasoning beings, we have the ability to build a case in support of anything we want. No collection of facts or logical arguments will ever really prove if something is right or wrong.

Don’t try and push your mind for an answer it doesn’t have. Rely on your intuition. How does something make you feel? Our subconscious mind processes much more than our conscious mind, but instead of producing logical thoughts, it creates emotions. Learn to trust these emotions and they’ll prove you to be wiser than you believe.

God's Coffee

    

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 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 it is 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 you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; 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, but he doesn’t supply the cups , 

Enjoy your coffee! 

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.

They just make the best of everything."

"Live simply.

Love generously.

Care deeply.

Speak kindly.

Leave the rest to God."

--- unknown author

The Lord is My Shepherd

"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

–  Psalm 23: 1-6