The Tea-cup

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Posted by: " Kriya baba " Kriyababa1 kriyababa

Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:43 pm (PST)

 

*The Tea-cup

 

*There was a couple who used to go England to shop in the beautiful

store. This was their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked

antiques and pottery and especially tea-cups. They said, " May we see

that? We've never seen one 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 red clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted

me over and over and I yelled out, " Let me alone, " but he only

smiled, " Not yet!! "

 

" Then I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun

around and around and around. 'Stop it!! I'm getting dizzy!! I

screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.'

 

Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and

knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could

read his lips as he shook hid head, 'Not yet'.

 

" Finally, the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to

cool. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were

horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Stop it, Stop it!!' I cried. He

only nodded, 'Not yet!'.

 

Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven, not like the first one.

This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I

pleaded. I screamed. I cried. I would never make it. I was ready to

give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the

shelf.

 

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.'

 

" I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be

rolled and patted, but if I just had 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 hurts 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 colour in your life, and

if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive

for long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a

finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with

you. " God knows what He's doing [for all of us]. He is the potter,

and we are His clay. He will mould us and make us, so that we may be

made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing and

perfect will.