Living Like A Cup of Tea

Living Like A Cup of Tea

Enjoying a cup of hot tea in the morning or late afternoon, while relaxing for a moment, is simply a fun activity. The tradition of drinking tea, in some countries become a meaningful activity, associated with the values of life that they trust. Tea leaves, hot water, and gather together to drink tea, no longer simply enjoy the time or eat a meal, the procession contains more value than just an activity.
Another value that I found interesting about the tea is, how it can also be used to describe the circumstances of our lives. Tea bags, can remove the core of tea, brewed only when hot water. The essence of tea stored in a dry tea leaves were forced out when it meets with hot water and continue to issue the proper color and flavor when repeatedly dipped in hot water. You know, there will be no tea produced with cold water.
Similar to us, when life takes us in difficult and challenging circumstances, the core of our potential "forced" out and produce something. We will change the color and flavor on the container in which we live life after undergoing a process of "brewing" 'with hot water, stirred, rotated many times, and dipped repeatedly. Our being surrounded by "steeping hot water" challenge, just so that we produce something better, change the situation, find a privilege in us, and useful for many people.

The Hard Working Ants

The Hard Working Ants

My brother, would never buy sweetened condensed milk in cans is not it? I am too. Each time you buy canned milk, after the can is punctured I usually keep in a bowl that has been filled with water, with intent to avoid ants.
One morning, before leaving for work, I prepare your favorite hot beverage, a glass of warm water mixed with milk tea in a can. Before pouring milk into a glass, I saw the water in the bowl where the milk was some ants that have been lifeless.
Brother, indeed a view that perhaps we usually see, a bunch of dead ants in the middle of a pool of water. But have we ever think about how wonderful mentality of the ant, although smallish but has a very large spirit. Ants know in the tin is a delicious milk, but there is a pool of water that way. Then he was swimming, although lives are at stake. And what will explain, among them there are successful enjoy milk cans, although some of them were dying.
Among the valuable lessons of God's creatures named 'ant' is the meaning of hard work. Did not we do not often get excited when a new challenge, felt herself incapable, but then we know that there is a pleasure we can get it if we get through with a good challenge. We finally surrender themselves, accept the current state without leaving the situation and living conditions better.

Rescuers Fear Worst for 11 Trapped Chinese Miners

YUZHOU, China -- Frantically working rescuers feared the 11 Chinese miners trapped by a deadly gas blast may have suffocated or been buried by coal dust, as loved ones kept a vigil Sunday and the death toll rose to 26 with five more bodies recovered.

The Chinese mine drama unfolded as the world still was celebrating Chile's successful rescue of 33 miners trapped for more than two months. Chinese media had detailed coverage as the Chilean men emerged to cheers.

Du Bo, deputy chief of the rescue headquarters, told the state-run Xinhua News Agency that hopes that the others were still alive after Saturday's early morning blast were slim.

 "Based on past experience, the remaining 11 miners could be buried in coal dust, so the survival chances are frail," Du said. Rescuers had to clear tons of coal dust from the mine shaft to reach the trapped workers, and they faced dangerous gas levels and the risk of falling rocks as they worked their way into the mine pit.

An initial investigation showed that 6 million cubic feet (173,500 cubic meters) of gas rushed out, Xinhua said, citing rescuers. The outburst generated enough force to throw 2,500 tons of coal dust into the mine pit, it said.

The gas wasn't specified, but methane is a common cause of mine blasts, and coal dust is explosive.

Saturday's blast at the Pingyu Coal & Electric Co. Ltd. mine occurred as workers were drilling a hole to release pressure from a gas buildup to decrease the risk of explosions, the state work safety administration said.

Efforts to lower the density of the gas in the pit by increasing ventilation have been hampered by coal that is blocking a 550-foot- (170-meter-) long shaft, which rescuers say will take them until Wednesday to clear, state media said.

Two dozen police officers were stationed outside the mine's main gate Sunday, preventing anyone from entering the site without authorization. About 50 of the trapped miners' friends and relatives quietly waited outside, some of them tearful. Murmured discussion of the mine's poor safety record could be heard.