Summertime. Good, Ol' summertime. It is a good time to get in some summer reading. My grandchildren from Ohio sent me the book, "If Tea Cups Could Talk" by Emily Barnes. I have enjoyed reading the many warm thoughts in this book over a cup of tea. I have also had many special moments with the grandchildren as we have our tea party.

I have learned some interesting lessons about tea cups. China dishes, recovered from shipwrecks, are often good as new long after the ship itself has dissolved in the saltwater. Porcelain is fragile but it is also remarkably durable - like us, like life. Humans are beautiful and breakable like china cups. Humans can heal and grow and move beyond disaster. We can reach out to one another and encouragement and comfort. Nancy Reagan has stated that, "A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is." Tea Time offers so many wonderful possibilities for nurturing friendships.

And if tea cups could talk, they would say so much about the past and also about the future. For hundreds of years, "come for tea" has been another way of saying, "Come, let's share a little bit of our lives together." If tea cups could talk, their message no doubt would be, "use me."

Warm Thoughts over the tea cup: If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are exhausted, it will calm you. William Gladstone. She was passionately interested in everything I did. She spoke with candor and good grace. Then, define the reality of crutches and straightened knee on wings of hospitality, she flew to brew the tea. Tom Hegg from "A Cup of Christmas Tea." Have many warm thoughts over a cup of tea.

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record August 8th, 1996.
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