Another Cup....

I prepare my coffee by the cup now, made with a one cup French press. Gotta love the French even if they hate us. It is Christmas Eve and I am making my second cup of coffee. Still better than the whole pot I used to drink. I prefer to drink, not from the press, but out of coffee cups. I just like it better that way. So I am in my kitchen my coffee is ready. Without thinking or stopping to consider anything other than I need a cup I open the cabinet reaching for a cup and it is then that I am struck by just how many and I mean many cups I have. Now let me back up to recall the first cup I used. It still sits on my desk a whole room away, empty now and cold. I don’t now walk to get it. Why would I? When with out having to move from the spot I am in I can reach another cup. It doesn’t matter that I will set this new cup right next to it’s predecessor and by days end there will probably be two more cluttering up the left side of my desk. Why do I do this? I have known others who search diligently for there favorite cup and in fact are at unrest until their desired of cups is found. I speculate those persons can’t even enjoy coffee if it isn’t out of their favorite cup. I am not that way. Red cup, blue cup, tall cup, fat cup it is all the same to me. But this isn’t really about the kind of cups. It is about how many I have. Who am I that I could have so many cups? I could probably go weeks with out washing or reusing a cup. I even have cups that aren’t mine, but have been brought to my home by the hand of others. So, I pause in front of my many cups and give thanks the Lord. A smile wrinkles my face (yep wrinkles I am 33 ya know) and warms my heart. Oh how blessed I am and how wondrous it is that it would be something so small and insignificant as cups that would bring gratitude pouring into my heart Not the gifts under the tree or the food in the fridge not the family not even their health but at this moment gratitude came with coffee in many cups…… How I love my God and his ways. Only he would know that what was near and dear to my heart on this particular morning would be coffee in another cup!!