What Spills Out Of You?

I read this analogy and it certainly hit home for me.

So, you’re holding a cup of coffee and someone accidentally bumps into you, causing it to spill 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. If there had been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

So, when life shakes you up, whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to pretend everything’s fine until you’re shook.

So, we need to ask ourselves, “What’s in my cup?”

When life gets tough, what spills over? Joy? Gratitude? Peace? Humility? Anger? Bitterness? Avoidance? A tendency to quit?

Remember, LIFE gives you the cup;

YOU choose what to fill it with.

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