Clouds in your coffee...
A girl went to her mother and told her how
her life was going and that she was tired of
struggling and did not know how she was
going to make it and wanted to give up.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She
filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the
second she placed eggs and the last she
placed ground coffee beans.
She let them boil without saying a word.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me
what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel
the carrots. She did and noted that they
were soft. She then asked her to feel the
hard boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee.
The daughter then asked. "What's the
point?" Her mother explained that each of
these objects had faced the same
adversity--boiling water--but 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 was fragile, but its thin outer shell
protected the 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 changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "
When adversity knocks on your door, how do
you respond?
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity do you wilt and
become soft and lose strength?
Are you the egg that starts with a malleable
heart, but changes with the heat? Does the
shell look the same, but on the inside is it
bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a
hardened heart?
Or are you 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.
- John Mark
A girl went to her mother and told her how
her life was going and that she was tired of
struggling and did not know how she was
going to make it and wanted to give up.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She
filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the
second she placed eggs and the last she
placed ground coffee beans.
She let them boil without saying a word.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me
what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel
the carrots. She did and noted that they
were soft. She then asked her to feel the
hard boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee.
The daughter then asked. "What's the
point?" Her mother explained that each of
these objects had faced the same
adversity--boiling water--but 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 was fragile, but its thin outer shell
protected the 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 changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "
When adversity knocks on your door, how do
you respond?
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity do you wilt and
become soft and lose strength?
Are you the egg that starts with a malleable
heart, but changes with the heat? Does the
shell look the same, but on the inside is it
bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a
hardened heart?
Or are you 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.
- John Mark
Clouds in your coffee...
A girl went to her mother and told her how
her life was going and that she was tired of
struggling and did not know how she was
going to make it and wanted to give up.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She
filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the
second she placed eggs and the last she
placed ground coffee beans.
She let them boil without saying a word.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me
what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel
the carrots. She did and noted that they
were soft. She then asked her to feel the
hard boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee.
The daughter then asked. "What's the
point?" Her mother explained that each of
these objects had faced the same
adversity--boiling water--but 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 was fragile, but its thin outer shell
protected the 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 changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "
When adversity knocks on your door, how do
you respond?
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity do you wilt and
become soft and lose strength?
Are you the egg that starts with a malleable
heart, but changes with the heat? Does the
shell look the same, but on the inside is it
bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a
hardened heart?
Or are you 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.
- John Mark
A girl went to her mother and told her how
her life was going and that she was tired of
struggling and did not know how she was
going to make it and wanted to give up.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She
filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the
second she placed eggs and the last she
placed ground coffee beans.
She let them boil without saying a word.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me
what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel
the carrots. She did and noted that they
were soft. She then asked her to feel the
hard boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee.
The daughter then asked. "What's the
point?" Her mother explained that each of
these objects had faced the same
adversity--boiling water--but 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 was fragile, but its thin outer shell
protected the 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 changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "
When adversity knocks on your door, how do
you respond?
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity do you wilt and
become soft and lose strength?
Are you the egg that starts with a malleable
heart, but changes with the heat? Does the
shell look the same, but on the inside is it
bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a
hardened heart?
Or are you 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.
- John Mark
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