FOR WEDNESDAY MAY 16TH...COFFEE

 EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE WEEKS  (not just mornings or days... actually weeks?) WHEN YOU JUST FELT LIKE YOU COULDN'T CONCENTRATE OR GET ANYTHING DONE WITHOUT A GOOD OLE CUP OF COFFEE??

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WELL, THIS MUST BE MY WEEK... LOL

Life is Like a Cup of 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 have been 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. Savor the coffee, not the cups! 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.
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I HOPE MY HUSBAND IS IN A GOOD MOOD AND FEELING REALLY GOOD THIS EVENING.. I AM WANTING HIM TO HELP ME PLANT THE MANY FLOWERS I ORDERED... (TRUE ENOUGH AT THIS POINT, THEY JUST LOOK LIKE "STICKS" BUT WITH GOD'S HELP, AND YOUR PRAYERS... MAYBE THEY WILL HELP THE LOOKS OF OUR WOODED YARD... "I HOPE SO" (THANKS FOR THE PRAYERS)
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I AM GLAD THAT I TRULY BELIEVE THAT NOTHING IS TO BIG OR TWO SMALL FOR OUR LORD TO CARE ABOUT WHEN WE ASK HIS HELP!
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============================== THIS WAS FROM FRANCES.. I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST TOOO CUTE TO NOT SHARE WITH YOU ALL.. SORT OF REMINDS ME OF MY MOM'S PLACE  (SHE ALWAYS HAD A YARD STOCKED FULL OF BLOOMING FLOWERS AND DAD ENJOYED THEM ALONG WITH HER.... but only as far as looking at them.. he didn't work in the yard.. but he did work in the garden) HIS FAVORITE WAS A YELLOW ROSE, HERS WAS A RED ROSE.. (but she liked all flowers)  ANYWAY, THANKS FRANCES FOR SHARING.. AND BY THE WAY, YOU ALL ARE STILL IN OUR PRAYERS.. BUT THEN, YOU KNOW THAT! LOVE AND DAILY PRAYERS FOR BOTH OF YOU.

ALL THIS TALK ABOUT COFFEE MAKES ME WONDER
"WHERE'S MY COFFEE?"

"GUESS I HAD BETTER GO IN AND PUT A POT ON"

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PRAYING FOR JAKE AND HIS HEALTH ISSUES.. PRAYING FOR A TOTAL HEALING! LOVE TO BOTH OF YOU!

PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOURS TONIGHT AND NIGHTLY.. PRAYING FOR EVAN AND ALL THE CHILDREN WITH EB, CANCER AND EVERY OTHER DREADFUL DISEASES.. AND THEIR FAMILIES...PRAYING FOR EVERYONE WITH NASTY OLE CANCER.. SUCH A DREADFUL THING.. GOD COMFORT, HEAL AND BLESS EACH AND GRANT INNER PEACE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CAREGIVERS.. PRAYING FOR EVERYONE NEEDING A JOB AND (OR) THE WANT AND WILL TO WORK! PRAYING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND GOD'S GUIDANCE UPON IT.. PRAYING FOR ALL OF OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR SAFE AND QUICK RETURN HOME AND THEIR PEACE OF MINDS AND SOULS AND THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES.. PRAYING FOR CHRIS AND ALL THE TRAVELING HE HAS TO DO FOR WORK.. THANKING GOD FOR JEFF AND NORMAN JR'S JOBS, AS WELL AS FOR MINE, AND EVERY ONES THAT HAS A JOB.. PRAYING FOR ALL THE "UNSPOKEN REQUEST, AND NEEDS" .. (and asking that you'll pray with us about ours) AND THANKING GOD FOR ALL HIS GOODNESS, HIS LOVE, GRACE, MERCIES, GUIDANCE, AND BLESSINGS.. THANK YOU GOD IN ALL THINGS IN JESUS HOLY NAME, AMEN..