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Coffee Beans
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee ...You will never look at a cup of
coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things
were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted
to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem
was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and
placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed
carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee
beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes
she turned off the burners.. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a
bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the
coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?" "Carrots,
eggs, and coffee," she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to
feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked
the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she
observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the
coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then
asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity
... boiling water each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and
unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened
and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected
its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside
became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were
in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door,
how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?" Think of this:
Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I
wilt and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a
malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after
a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become
hardened and stiff . Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter
and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the
very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the
fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst,
you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate
yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an
egg, or a coffee bean?
Count your blessings, not your problems...... Putting others first makes
relationships last
Moments in Life :There are moments in life when you miss someone so much
that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look
so long at the closed door that we don't see the one, which has been opened for
us. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades
away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make
a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. Dream what you
want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have
only one life and one chance to do all the things you want
to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make
you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just
make the most of everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't
go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When
you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your
life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is
crying.
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