My Creator is my mentor.........

I yelled !!! 'Help! Get me out of here!' 

A man who had just lost his job went over to a shop and with the last of his money decided to buy a beautiful teacup for his wife. On the display shelf, he saw the perfect cup and told the sales person to take it down, "I've never seen a cup so beautiful!" he said as she handed it to him and he paid the money.

The man had tears as he handled the lovely cup but felt sad as he looked at his empty wallet. Suddenly the cup spoke: "I have not always been a tea-cup," it said, "there was a time when I was just a lump of red clay. My master took me and rolled me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "don't do that. I don't like it!  Let me alone", but he only smiled, and gently said; 'Not yet!!'

"Then. WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun
around and around and around. 'Stop it! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be sick!', I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, quietly; 'Not yet' He spun me and poked and prodded and bent me out  of shape to suit himself and then he put me in the oven."

" I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the  door. 'Help! Get me out of here!' I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side, 'Not yet'. "When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on the shelf,  and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! 'Ah, this is much better,' I thought.

"But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Oh, please  stop it, Stop it!!' I cried. He only shook his head and said. 'Not yet!'. 

"Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed I cried. I was convinced I  would never make it, was ready to give up. Just then the door opened  and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf, where I cooled  and waited and waited, wondering what's he going to do to me next?  "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!"' 

"Quietly he spoke: I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just 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 hurt 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 color in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that  second oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. Now you are what  I had in mind when I first began with you."

The beautiful cup looked up at the man who had just lost his job, "So don't cry my friend. You are going through the shaping and heat and  painting I went through. But when the potter stops you will be lovely  to behold..!

So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning  out of control; when you feel like you are in a fiery furnace of  trials; when life seems awful and terrible, try this: Brew a cup of   your favorite tea in your prettiest teacup, sit down and think on  this story and then, have a little talk with the Potter ..(creator).

He knows what He is doing and may just tell you: "Not yet..!"

(source article courtesy: Story credit goes to her entirely sukanya .blogspot.)

if we are not facing enough troubles, if you are not facing heat of the time, if you are not yet tested of your patience than think some thing is wrong in you, why the creator has not yet picked  you up yet to bake  you..to pound you ...to heat  to paint ?..........(My  Creator is my mentor).