Does your cup overfloweth
Encouragement

Do Your Cups Overfloweth?

 

Do your cups overfloweth?   Mine do.  I walked into the kitchen this afternoon and there they were–overflowing on the counter—fast food cups, Solo cups, juice cups and coffee cups—over a dozen of them. My eyes tried to count as my hands went to work, and the voice in my head vented with questions like, “Why can’t anyone seem to find the dishwasher?” “How many more nano seconds does it take to drop a cup in the trash rather than on the counter?” and “Why, why, why can’t I seem to train my kids to put stuff away?”

Within five minutes the venting voice relented as I surveyed the now cleared counter. I was still slightly annoyed but much, much calmer. And then I saw it—my coffee cup from this morning, empty and alone next to the stove. Somehow I had missed it.

As I focused on that lonely cup a foreboding thought formed in my mind. One day that might be all I find on the counter—one or two empty coffee cups. One day my kids will be grown and gone.  But, today I am not alone.The cups in my house overfloweth because my cup is over-flowing with life. I have been given a houseful–five kids and one awesome husband. This is what I wanted–a big family! Those cups aren’t a symbol of how I have failed as a parent.  Those cups are a symbol of the  overflowing gift of life I have been given.  A gift that I am going to miss one day!

Unless, of course, I learn to train the kids now, to put their cups away…then I won’t miss the cups, just the kids.

 

 

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