Every tree is known by its own fruit

There are nuggets of wisdom being passed around social media. Here is one from an anonymous author whose gem of a piece is worth documenting on paper since it throws light on today’s Gospel passage.

- 

“You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee?

‘Because someone bumped into me.’ Wrong answer! You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out. Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you, whatever is inside you will come out. It is easy to fake it until you get rattled.

So, we have to ask ourselves, what’s in my cup? When life gets tough, what spills over? Will it be joy? Will it be gratitude? Will it be peace? Will it be humility? Or anger, bitterness, victim mentality, and quitting tendencies?