Someone sent me the following quote today. Believing it to be of good value and its message worthwhile, I wanted to pass it forward here at Untoalltheworld.
Despite the references to coffee and tea, the message is powerful and has caused me serious reflection for personal improvement.
“You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee? ‘Because someone bumped into me!’
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which will happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves: ‘What’s in my cup?’
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace, and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality, and quitting tendencies?
Life provides the cup.
You choose how to fill it.
Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity, kindnesss, gentleness, and love for others.”
Holy writ speaks of this, too, in these words:
“…That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.” (Mark 7:20)
“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.” (Matthew 15:11)
Truly, out is a reflection of within.
Unto all the world: What spills out is reflective of what is inside.
2 responses to “What Spills Out is Refletive of What is Inside”
YOUR cup is so full of goodness, of service, of Jesus. And that is why I Love you so much!!!
You are so kind. I love the journey towards a better filled cup. You spill over everything glorious. I love you, too.
Katrina