A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things
were so hard for her. She did not 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 father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots
with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a
boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the
last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without
saying a word.

The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what
he was doing. In about twenty minutes he got up and turned off the
burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He
pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee
out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. He brought her closer and
asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the
shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip
the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.

She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?" He explained that each
of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted
differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But
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," he asked his daughter.

"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a
carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"

How about you?
Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do
you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?

Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a
fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff
have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but
are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?

Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the
thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212
degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes
better. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you
get better and make things better around you . When people talk about
you, do your praises to the Lord increase? When the hour is the
darkest and trials are their greatest, does your worship elevate to
another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg,
or a coffee bean?

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Good one, Kjyoti.

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thanks for that thought.... it made me think of life in a different light... thanks again

Wish to be coffee bean..that's a nice post

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Morale boosting story..........

However, what would have happened if the father had not removed the pots? The coffee beans pot would have continued to boil, and coffee beans fighting it out with the boiling water, and finally would have evaporated along with the water leaving the pot empty.

Is that what is happening to me? With almost everything going wrong in last three years, I have survived on hope and confidence like beans and my friends have come to appreciate me more looking at the way I have been facing adversity. However, time seems to have come when I am going to evaporate with the boiling water leaving beind the egg and carrots (wife and children) in a worse shape than what they were before they entered the pot!!!

Food for thought i suppose.

Chandresh

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Chandresh

Advice is free – lessons I charge for!!

An excellent story...

"Jub acche din nahien rahe, tau bure din bhi nahien rahenge..."

"Wo mard/aurat hi kya jo pareshaaniyo se dar kar ghabra jaye?"

"Himmate marda tau jannate khuda!!!"

"Roshni Gar Khuda ko ho manzoor, Aandhiyon mein chirag jalte hain "

Jindagi ka dusra naam ladai hien...ladte raho....bus dont forget to enjoy it while its lasts...Try and find ways to stay happy...
Always enter ur home with a smile...it helps...

Sometimes its fate, Sometimes its luck...
Eventually fate may have something else ...Luck should change...

Didnt say it is easy....just dont give up!!!

bison

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Is that what is happening to me? With almost everything going wrong in last three years, I have survived on hope and confidence like beans and my friends have come to appreciate me more looking at the way I have been facing adversity. However, time seems to have come when I am going to evaporate with the boiling water leaving beind the egg and carrots (wife and children) in a worse shape than what they were before they entered the pot!!!

Chandresh

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