"TEA CUP" A CUTE LITTLE STORY.

 There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and the shop they visited had a beautiful teacup.
 They said to the shop assistant, " May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful."  As the lady handed it over, the teacup spoke suddenly.
 " You don't understand," it said. " I haven't always been a teacup.
There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My Master rolled me, patted over and over and I yelled out, 'Let me alone' but he only smiled, 'Not yet."

 " Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said,and suddenly I was spun around. " Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. but the Master only nodded and said,'Not yet.'
  Then he put me in a oven, I never felt the heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the cup, I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips:" Not yet."
 Finally the door opened, he put me on a shelf, and I began to cool. "There, that's  better, I said. 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 into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot. and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. and pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, Not yet!
 Then I knew their wasn't any hope. I would  never make it.I was ready to give up. But the door open and he took me and placed me on the shelf.  One hour later he handed me an mirror. and I could't believe it was me.
  'Its beautiful.   I'm beautiful.'
I' want you to remember, then,' he said, I know it hurts to be rolled and pattered, but if I left you alone, you would have dried up.
 I knew it made you dizzy to spin you around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.
  I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked.
 I knew the fumes where bad when I Brushed and painted you over, but if I had't done that, you never wouldn't have hardened you would not have had any color in your life.
 And if I hadn't put you back in that second, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness
 would not have taken!
 Now you are a finished product.
 You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.
 Moral: God knows what he's doing for all of us. He is the potter and we are the clay. He will mold us so that we may be made  into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good.
 Let this story remind you that God has a perfect plan for your life. He may need to place some obstacles in your life, to strengthen you!
 Beware lest you forget God has a purpose for your life.