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THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by UNEEK Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:14 am
I
have felt the immense heat and the pain of pruning or fine tuning-- I
have felt at times that a sharp scalpel was being used to carve away at
me - to greatly shape and define me -- Then I have felt the roughest
of sand paper (experiences) being used to again redefine who I was to
be --
Sometimes the experiences were ever so subtle like the finest of sand paper but yet did make an impact on my character.
May this story be enlightening - encouraging and inspiring to you --
may it ease your pain and discomfort from the molding and shaping of
your character -- knowing that you will be made most beautiful -- and
remember the years of extreme heat and pressure it takes to turn a
piece of coal into a beautiful brilliant diamond --
UNEEK
The Tea Cup
There was a couple who used to go England to shop in a
beautiful antique store. This trip was to celebrate
their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked
antiques and pottery, and especially tea-cups.
Spotting an exceptional cup, they asked "May we see
that? We've never seen a cup quite so beautiful."
As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the tea-cup
spoke. "You don't understand." it said, "I have not
always been a tea-cup. There was a time when I was
just a lump of red clay. My master took me and rolled
me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled
out, Don't do that. I don't like it! "Let me alone,"
but he only smiled, and gently said; "Not yet!!"
"Then. WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and
suddenly I was spun around and around and around.
'Stop it ! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be
sick!', I screamed. But the master only nodded and
said, quietly; 'Not yet.' He spun me and poked and
prodded and bent me out of shape to suit himself and
then......
Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I
yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. " Help!
Get me out of here!" I could see him through the
opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head
from side to side, 'Not yet'.
"When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the
door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on
the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good!
"Ah, this is much better," I thought.
But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and
painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I
thought I would gag. 'Oh, please; Stop it, Stop it!!'
I cried. He only shook his head and said. 'Not yet!'.
Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it
was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and
I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I
screamed. I cried. I was convinced I would never make
it. I was ready to give up. Just then the door opened
and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf,
where I cooled and waited ------- and waited,
wondering What's he going to do to me next?
An hour later he handed me a mirror and said 'Look at
yourself.' And I did.
I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's
beautiful. I'm beautiful!"'
Quietly he spoke: "I want you to remember, then,' he
said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and
patted, but had I just left you alone, you'd have
dried up.
I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel,
but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.
I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the
oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have
cracked.
I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted
you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never
would have hardened. You would not have had any color
in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that second
oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the
hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished
product. Now you are what I had in mind when I first
began with you."
The moral of this story is this:
God knows what He's doing [ for each of us ]. He is
the potter, and we are His clay. He will mold us and
make us, and expose us to just enough pressures of
just the right kinds that we may be made into a
flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing
and perfect will.
So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and
patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your
world seems to be spinning out of control; when you
feel like you are in a fiery furnace of trials; when
life seems to "stink", try this.... Brew a cup of your
favorite tea in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and
think on this story and then, have a little talk with
the Potter
have felt the immense heat and the pain of pruning or fine tuning-- I
have felt at times that a sharp scalpel was being used to carve away at
me - to greatly shape and define me -- Then I have felt the roughest
of sand paper (experiences) being used to again redefine who I was to
be --
Sometimes the experiences were ever so subtle like the finest of sand paper but yet did make an impact on my character.
May this story be enlightening - encouraging and inspiring to you --
may it ease your pain and discomfort from the molding and shaping of
your character -- knowing that you will be made most beautiful -- and
remember the years of extreme heat and pressure it takes to turn a
piece of coal into a beautiful brilliant diamond --
UNEEK
The Tea Cup
There was a couple who used to go England to shop in a
beautiful antique store. This trip was to celebrate
their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked
antiques and pottery, and especially tea-cups.
Spotting an exceptional cup, they asked "May we see
that? We've never seen a cup quite so beautiful."
As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the tea-cup
spoke. "You don't understand." it said, "I have not
always been a tea-cup. There was a time when I was
just a lump of red clay. My master took me and rolled
me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled
out, Don't do that. I don't like it! "Let me alone,"
but he only smiled, and gently said; "Not yet!!"
"Then. WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and
suddenly I was spun around and around and around.
'Stop it ! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be
sick!', I screamed. But the master only nodded and
said, quietly; 'Not yet.' He spun me and poked and
prodded and bent me out of shape to suit himself and
then......
Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I
yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. " Help!
Get me out of here!" I could see him through the
opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head
from side to side, 'Not yet'.
"When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the
door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on
the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good!
"Ah, this is much better," I thought.
But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and
painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I
thought I would gag. 'Oh, please; Stop it, Stop it!!'
I cried. He only shook his head and said. 'Not yet!'.
Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it
was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and
I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I
screamed. I cried. I was convinced I would never make
it. I was ready to give up. Just then the door opened
and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf,
where I cooled and waited ------- and waited,
wondering What's he going to do to me next?
An hour later he handed me a mirror and said 'Look at
yourself.' And I did.
I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's
beautiful. I'm beautiful!"'
Quietly he spoke: "I want you to remember, then,' he
said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and
patted, but had I just left you alone, you'd have
dried up.
I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel,
but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.
I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the
oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have
cracked.
I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted
you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never
would have hardened. You would not have had any color
in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that second
oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the
hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished
product. Now you are what I had in mind when I first
began with you."
The moral of this story is this:
God knows what He's doing [ for each of us ]. He is
the potter, and we are His clay. He will mold us and
make us, and expose us to just enough pressures of
just the right kinds that we may be made into a
flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing
and perfect will.
So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and
patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your
world seems to be spinning out of control; when you
feel like you are in a fiery furnace of trials; when
life seems to "stink", try this.... Brew a cup of your
favorite tea in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and
think on this story and then, have a little talk with
the Potter
*****************
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own -- Bryant
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
To be persuasive, one must be believable;
To be believable, one must be credible;
To be credible, one must be truthful.
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by Ponee Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:32 am
Thank you UNEEK - I know you created the post for Miske, But I personally received great joy and peace from it.
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by ADMIN Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:40 am
I am honored UNEEK that you thought of me... and took the time to post this... I thank the Lord for stragically placing you in my path... and at the right moments...
Think I will go have me a cup of tea now
BIG HUGS!!!
Think I will go have me a cup of tea now
BIG HUGS!!!
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by openmind Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:33 pm
Its all about strategy isn't it Miskebam?
Btw, interesting quote. Truman dropped the N-bomb on Japan when they were trying to surrender.
Btw, interesting quote. Truman dropped the N-bomb on Japan when they were trying to surrender.
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by dinarstar Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:51 pm
I am a tea person.
I have my favorite cup my step daughter gave to me,which I use every day,and I cherish it dearly.
I will remember this,I am sure as long,and even after,I am able to savor a good cup of tea..
but more now than the tea...this life's lesson that will sweeten the experience every time.
Thank you so much uneek.
I love your site too.
I have my favorite cup my step daughter gave to me,which I use every day,and I cherish it dearly.
I will remember this,I am sure as long,and even after,I am able to savor a good cup of tea..
but more now than the tea...this life's lesson that will sweeten the experience every time.
Thank you so much uneek.
I love your site too.
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by SEBtopdog Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:00 pm
This particular post was so very lovely, and meaningful to me, too. You see, one of my brothers is a potter, but he has muscular dystrophy and can now only work about an hour a day. I am going to send it to him and know he will see the special beauty in this parable. Thanks very much. 
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by UNEEK Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:37 pm
DinarStar & SEBtopdog --- I will do my best to contribute more encouraging and enlightening posts -- and thank you for sharing yours
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own -- Bryant
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
To be persuasive, one must be believable;
To be believable, one must be credible;
To be credible, one must be truthful.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by dinarstar Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:42 pm
You are very welcome,and I look forward to that. 
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Re: THE TEA CUP *FOR MISKEBAM*
by chevysteve Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:22 pm
Not much of a tea drinker but, that was very nice of Uneek to share....
In the mean time it's Friday night so instead of a tea cup lets sing...............
Red solo cup.........I fill you up, let's have a PARTY........ Let's have a PARTY.........
I love that song..
In the mean time it's Friday night so instead of a tea cup lets sing...............
Red solo cup.........I fill you up, let's have a PARTY........ Let's have a PARTY.........
I love that song..
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