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My cup overflows

"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.  You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows" Psalm 23 v 5 Have you ever thought about the type of blessing an 'overflowing cup' is? It was one day that I was thinking how full on life was, so busy, so hectic, so many things to manage; thinking about how I seemed to have more in life than I could handle... And the verse came to mind...'my cup overflows'.  REFRAME.  I was thinking about having 'too much' being a negative thing but the imagery of an overflowing cup suddenly made me realize God's generous blessing will look like that at times... Messy More than we can contain Inconvenient Can you imagine being at a restaurant and the waiter is pouring your wine (or grape juice if you prefer!) and he just keeps on pouring and pouring into your glass.  It is overflowing.  You are looking at him saying stop!  stop!  What are you doing?!  He just keeps smiling