Today is: Friday Dec 30, 2005
Good Morning
I Have Been Thinking
I guess this will be the last time I write to you this year. I want to take a minute and wish you and yours a very fruitful 2006. I don’t know what the New Year will bring but I know that we each have inside the ability to make it a very profitable, enjoyable and healthy year as long as we keep our attitude on straight.
I received a story from a very dear friend and thought that I would pass it along to you.
Success!
MizC
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Carrots, Eggs and Coffee
–Author Unknown
You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother, 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
though every time 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 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. 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?” 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, 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?
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 or most 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 that, at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and
everyone around you is crying.
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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
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