The Carrot The Egg And The Coffee Bean Recipe

How to make it

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• A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how thingswere so hard for her.
• She did not know how she was going to make it andwanted to give up.
• She was tired of fighting and struggling.
• It seemed assoon 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 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 doesit mean, mother?"
• Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water.
• Each reacted differently.
• The carrot went instrong, 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 stiffspirit 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?
• 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.