The Cup
I heard this story years ago, well actually it is not so much a story as parable or mythical allegory. However it has always stayed with me in the back of my head.
At his side, God has two basins from which his mixes the cup of man. In one there is the bitter liquor of pain, suffering, and despair. In the other, the sweet honeyed wine of joy. His mixes the two in different messures for each man. Yet some receive more of the bitter pain. For those who swollow down the bitter cup, God shall smile and seat him at his side. Then he shall mix him a cup of naught but joy, and the cup shall be neverending.
I believe that this is true, at least in general. All of us have to dirink this cup called life. And all of us have different messures of joy and pain. Yet it seams that some of us get a lot more pain in life than joy. That is not to say that it is all bad. I have had some good times too. It is just that they are few and far between. It is just the way life is, some people get the things others don't. Some are born into a financialy secure home, others are born into poverty. Some are accepted for who they are, others face prejudice. Some have the gift, they have many friends, opritunities, love, the things all men want. The others have to struggle to acheive those things, and may still never get them.
Dispite this seamingly unfair situation, there is hope. We all have to drink the cup, we all have to live life. Weather it is easyer or harder, it is what we must do. Even though some of our cups are filled to the brim with bitterness, we have a unique opritunity. A life of dificulty makes one strong, if you face it head on. Life has trained me, I have learned to live a simpiler life, I have learned there is more than me involved, there are chalenges to be answered and I, we all have a part in answereing them. This hard life has made me into a better man. Not to say it has been easy, or even enjoyable. I am not a masochist, I don't want pain, but I can deal with it if I have too.
The reason I can deal is because of what I hope is the end result. If I drink down this life, and ask for more, things will be diferent. I beleive God will reward me for my paitence and faith. I beleive God is love, and he will grant me peice when this is all done. He will give joy where there was pain. And I am sure he will do this in his due time, and for all of us. That is the hope that keeps me going day after day. That is what gives me my strength. I hope I am right, otherwise this is all just a cruel joke, and beleiving that would break me, and I am not ready to break.
At his side, God has two basins from which his mixes the cup of man. In one there is the bitter liquor of pain, suffering, and despair. In the other, the sweet honeyed wine of joy. His mixes the two in different messures for each man. Yet some receive more of the bitter pain. For those who swollow down the bitter cup, God shall smile and seat him at his side. Then he shall mix him a cup of naught but joy, and the cup shall be neverending.
I believe that this is true, at least in general. All of us have to dirink this cup called life. And all of us have different messures of joy and pain. Yet it seams that some of us get a lot more pain in life than joy. That is not to say that it is all bad. I have had some good times too. It is just that they are few and far between. It is just the way life is, some people get the things others don't. Some are born into a financialy secure home, others are born into poverty. Some are accepted for who they are, others face prejudice. Some have the gift, they have many friends, opritunities, love, the things all men want. The others have to struggle to acheive those things, and may still never get them.
Dispite this seamingly unfair situation, there is hope. We all have to drink the cup, we all have to live life. Weather it is easyer or harder, it is what we must do. Even though some of our cups are filled to the brim with bitterness, we have a unique opritunity. A life of dificulty makes one strong, if you face it head on. Life has trained me, I have learned to live a simpiler life, I have learned there is more than me involved, there are chalenges to be answered and I, we all have a part in answereing them. This hard life has made me into a better man. Not to say it has been easy, or even enjoyable. I am not a masochist, I don't want pain, but I can deal with it if I have too.
The reason I can deal is because of what I hope is the end result. If I drink down this life, and ask for more, things will be diferent. I beleive God will reward me for my paitence and faith. I beleive God is love, and he will grant me peice when this is all done. He will give joy where there was pain. And I am sure he will do this in his due time, and for all of us. That is the hope that keeps me going day after day. That is what gives me my strength. I hope I am right, otherwise this is all just a cruel joke, and beleiving that would break me, and I am not ready to break.
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