An interesting story about filling up a glass

A teacher was lecturing in front of his his students.

On the desk in front of him he had a glass, a little heap of middlesized stones, a little heap of gravel, a little heap of pebbles and a little heap of sand.

Without saying anything, he placed two middlesized stones in the glass. There was not any place left for a third one.

"Is the glass filled up now?" he asked the students.
"Yes," the students said.
The teacher looked at them for a while, then dropped some gravel into the glass.
Again he asked the students if the glass was filled up, and again they answered yes. Then he dropped some of the pepples into the glass, asked again, and at last the sand filled up every empty space in the glass.

"Is it filled up now?" he asked.
They all agreed.

Without saying a word, the teacher lifted a jug of water from the floor, which he had hidden, and poured the content into the glass.

The glass was now full.


Make sure you've filled up your glass, your life, in right order.

The most important things first.
The foundation.
Then the important things, then the less important things, and then the small, but still, important things.


My foundation is Jesus Christ, and I've experienced that when letting him be The Middlesized Stone in my life, I don't feel that anything is missing.

There's still plenty of room for the rest - the things that are important for us. Family, friends, job, education, - when prioritating in the right order.