Coffee bean !

This is not a recipe to prepare a dish.... well, I'm sure, It's a recipe for happiness. It teaches us how to react when adversity knocks the door.  Everyone of us face the hard times and difficult situations in life, this beautiful cooking based, Christian  illustration shows us how to deal with the trials and tribulations of life .   I don't know who the author is , but I found it quite interesting.... 

Coffee bean !!
A daughter complained to her father 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 all the fighting and
struggling. It seemed as though in solving one problem , two more would arise .
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 in the last pot, he placed ground coffee beans.

 He let them sit and boil without  saying a word . The daughter impatiently waited , wondering what
he was doing. In about twenty minutes he 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 poured it in a cup.

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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 carrots went in strong , hard, and unrelenting. But after being
subjected to the boiling water, they 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, the insides became hardened.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were in the boiling water, they had hanged
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 changeable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after difficult times, have you become hardened and stiff. Your  shell looks the same, but are you 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 .  When the water reaches it 's peak temperature, 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, does 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?

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,  because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything" - Bible , James 1: 2-4

Are you a carrot , an egg, or a coffee bean ?
" Please God, help me to be a
coffee bean ! Amen "