How Do You Drink Your Coffee?

I received this in an email from one of my friends. I thought that everyone would enjoy it. It really hit home for me. I think that I waste a lot of emotional energy comparing myself and my life to others. From now on, I am going to purpose to enjoy the life that God has given me.


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 but 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, 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 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 (so-to-speak), brews the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee!

I'M BAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!

Hello everyone!

I haven't posted in a long time, so there a few changes to report. The biggest change is that I have resigned from my job at Wells Fargo and returned home. The long hours (with the commute) took a bigger toll on my health than I had anticipated. It was affecting our family in many different areas. The amount of money that I was bringing home wasn't worth the stress and issues that it was creating. I am very happy to be at home. David and I are enjoying the summer. We are heading to the beach today to hang out with some friends from church. I am really excited about that!!

The other significant change is that without my pay we couldn't afford to send David to the private preschool at our church, Maranatha Christian Academy. However, we will still be having school because David loves to learn and enjoys school activities. I will be homeschooling him this fall so if anyone has any ideas they would like to share or good websites to refer me to please either post them on the blog or email me at gullandfamily@netzero.net. I know that a lot of the things that he has learned so far have come from life experiences and me taking cues from him about what he is interested in. I will continue to do that and don't plan on having too much structure as far as preschool is concerned. I am also thinking about joining the homeschool
co-op at our church, so David can get much needed interaction with other children. He also gets a lot of this from his class when we attend church. Plus, I have a friend whose son, Joshua, is one of David's favorite friends. She homeschools, so I plan on organizing some things with her as well so the boys can get together.

I hope to post more frequently now that I am at home. I look forward to hearing from all of you.