The Hot Chocolate Lesson
I have an email correspondent I don’t really know, but he found me through this blog. His name is Frank, and he often sends me clever teaching stories. Here’s one of them.
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.
“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.”
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March 24, 2008 8:21 am | 
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