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What's in the cup?

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes and bumps you, making you spill your coffee everywhere.

Why did you spill your coffee?

“Well, because someone bumped into me, of course!”

Wrong answer. You spilled the coffee because coffee was in the cup. If tea had been in it, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will come out. “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45.)

When life comes along and shakes you (which will happen) whatever is inside of you will come out.

It’s easy to fake it until you get rattled. We have to ask ourselves: What is in my cup? When we’re startled, or hurt, or wronged, what spills over? Joy, gratefulness, peace, humility? Or anger, bitterness, harsh words and actions?

Fr Silouan Thompson