KEEP THE CUP EMPTY

I conversed with one supervisor this morning and he shared with his experience being young in the position and learning new things everyday ( I can see the drive and the passion in his eyes). From it I simply uttered, "yes it is always good to keep the cup empty so that we would continue to learn everyday"... And wow, this one perked me to write. I hopped excitedly in the computer hahahahaha...here goes.

Of course you know what i mean with emptying the cup. It is just simply pouring out its content so that you will have available space for the next round of ...coffee, tea, or me ( hahahhah joke lang). I would like to associate the cup's "space" to our capacity to absorb things. Let's start with coffee ..

1. Coffee

Coffee is basically bitter. Others find it delicious to have at that, while others want it mixed with creamer and sugar or they use other ways of doing it to come up with other flavors such as cappuccino, latte and the like (hahahaha "the like" na lang ako gamiton kay wala nko kabalo sa uban). And so the cup of life may contain such bitter experiences that can be managed by putting in some life's "creamer and sugar" such as the decision to make things lighter despite the pains and struggles. Taken at that, the pain may have its way of consuming us like if we fully drink it in its entirety. But my SD finds brewed coffee really delicious. Wow...it may be that life can be taken in full even without the creamer or sugar. Pain has its way of creating miracles such that best learnings can come from it, if not, life's greatest wisdom.

2. Tea

Tea varies in flavor - green, mint, etc. and the like (na naman hahahahaha). These are the different flavors of experiences that may be poured in the "cup" of our life. Some we find delicious and others not really pleasing or delicious. I am not really such expert in associating things but this thing i see...life offers varieties of experiences and opportunities. We are free to pick according to our taste and flavor. Sometimes, we tend to experiment. Forest Gump's film played by Tom Hanks, associate life to "a box of chocolate and so you never know what you get". Well call that surprises, since life does not always give us what we expect or as simple as choosing what flavor of tea to drink.

Also, there are always first times with tea, right? Sso with life. But are we going to taste everything for us to be fully knowledgeable with life? Experience teaches lessons and the best teachers are those that have fully engaged themselves with life. Though I don't really agree full well that we engage with things that may harm us such as drugs to be a credible counselor of drug dependents or to get pregnant at a young age to be more effective in dealing with teen pregnancy. But that is how it is. If we fully engage...we extract the best of lessons that we may be able to give. Those that have experienced the most of pain are able to relate well with those that are really struggling (Emotional intelligence can support more on this).

3. ME

Actually, this one started as a joke which just came out as I nibbled my thoughts (remember the running old joke with service in the restaurant "coffee, tea or me?" ...that's just it ...hahahaha) but well I thought of me as the "ME" - GOD Himself. The Me being poured in our cup. Fully emptying the cup allows everything coming from our God to flow in. Imagine drinking from the cup of God. If you can recall the "cup" that Jesus went through...Yah right , the sufferings that He went through. Can you do the same? (hahhaha i see you face...I have 6th sense...i can see dead people walking like real people joke lang hahahhahahahahah...)...

Well everything is a choice though. We can either put in coffee, tea, or / and ultimately ...and one day choose to empty our cup for the ME. I bet ...we will definitely shine when resurrection comes. We may think that learning will just be limited to the size of our cup...There is more than "magic" with God's cup...And yes, there is nothing more to learning about God's cup that contains His unlimited supply of wisdom...just like what He has continually poured on me...try nato:-) go.. go.. nata... hehehe...