what is the parable about what's truly important in life and uses golf balls, marbles, sand , coffee etc .

Answer 1

Priorities

A philosophy professor sat at his desk.
On the desk before him
sat a quart jar,
a box of golf balls
a box of gravel
a box of sand
and two glasses of water

As his students came in,
they took their seats,
gazing quizzically at his desk.

When the class began,
the professor rose
to place golf balls into the jar.
Upon filling the jar,
he asked, “Is the jar full?”

His students assured him,
“Yes, the jar was full.”

He poured the gravel into the jar
Shaking it
until all the spaces
between the balls was full.
“Is the jar full?” he asked.

With some hesitation,
the class concluded,
“Yes, the jar was full.”

He poured the sand into the jar
Shaking it
Until every little space
was filled .
“Now, is the jar full?”

The class laughed nervously.
“Yes,” they assured him,
“the jar was definitely full”

The professor poured the two glasses of water
into the jar.
“I want you realize,” he said.
“That the jar is your life
And the golf balls
are those big, important things
in your life.
Your family,
your health,
your children,
the passions of your life.
The gravel is your possessions
Your house,
your car,
your job.
The sand is everything else,
the small stuff

If you put the sand in first,
there will be no room
for the golf balls.

Take time to play
with your children.
Get a medical checkup.
Do those big important things.
There will always be time
to sweep the house,
or fix the disposal
Look after the golf balls.
Set your priorities.
All the rest is sand.”

One student raised a hand
“What does the water represent?”

The professor smiled and said,
“There is always time to have
a couple of drinks with a friend.”

Answer 2

It involves an audience with you being the one asking the questions.. It goes like this. You get a large clear cannister. Stating that is life. You first fill it with golf balls. And ask your audience is the container full. They answer. Yes it is full. Then you take marbles and put them in the same container and shake it all down and ask the same question to the audience. Is the container now full. Again they will reply yes. Then you take sand and pour it in the container and shake it down again and ask the same question is it full, Again they will say yes. Then you take the coffee and pour it in till it fills all the nooks and crannys of that which is left.

Then you tell them:

the golf balls represent what is major in your life and it may seem full. job, carrer, money materialistic things. They are big because to the world they seem really important.

the marbles represent the minor things in life and are the small things in life, like recreation, talents, things that are necessary but not important enough to be stressed as the biggest.

the sand represents the things that seem insignificant but are the important things the things that settle your life, that make it really full, family, wife, husband, children friends. these should be many, like the number of the sands on the sea, the more you have of them the more they fill in all the small areas and you see what really is important.

The coffee is that which seeps into all of life and makes life its fullest meaning, that is God. God fills all things and moves in the spaces where we tried to crowd him out but he is still there. He has the abiltiy to fit in every space every nook and cranny to make your life its fullest that it can be. God wants to be the golf balls but there is room left over, the same with the marbles, the sand - only as God is allowed to fill you with His fullness will life be truly full and meaningful.

Answer 3

Captain Kangaroo.