Why’d you spill coffee? · The Emotionally Whole Family

Why’d you spill coffee?

A teacher asked his students a question based on this scenario:

If you’re walking down the hall, carrying a cup of coffee, someone bumps into you, and you spill the coffee…all over them and yourself, why’d you spill coffee?

Every one of the students responded with, “because I got bumped into”.

The teacher told them they were all wrong, that the reason they spilled the coffee was because that’s what they had in their cup.

If they had water in their cup, they would’ve spilled water.

If they had tea in their cup, they would’ve spilled tea.

The point of the story is…we are going to get bumped into, especially in our marriages and families! And whatever we’re carrying inside will be what we spill, all over them and ourselves.

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