What's inside your cup?

Here's a scenario that plays out countless times every day: Someone is walking down the street with a cup of coffee in their hands and someone else bumps into them abruptly. What happens? Well, most likely coffee gets spilled, right? Or perhaps you have a cup of milk on a table and the table gets agitated as someone else gets up. What happens? Milk gets spilled. The simple truth is that when things get agitated, what they have in them tends to spill out. Tea cups filled with tea spill tea when they get upended.

The same is true for people: when we get agitated or upset, we tend to spill out what we have inside. A bitter person is very likely to start cursing when they get upset. A prayerful person is likely to be more patient, kind and forgiving when things get upended. I think this is closely related to this weeks Gospel reading. The person that upsets us does not make us sinful; it's what comes out of us in response that matters most.

What is your cup filled with?

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