A mother and daughter are discussing adversity in marriage. While doing so, the mother puts three kettles with water on the stove and starts boiling water. They continue their discussion. The mother puts a carrot in one pot, an egg in another and coffee beans in the third.
After 20 minutes of continued discussion about adversity, the mother takes the carrot out and puts it in a bowl. She takes out the egg and puts it in another bowl. Finally she ladles out some of the coffee from the pot with the coffee beans.
She asked her daughter what changed with the carrot. Her daughter responded that it went in strong and came out soft, having lost all its strenght.
She asked her about the egg. She responded that it went in with a hard outter shell, but a soft middle, but came out hard all the way through.
She asked about the coffee beans. Her daughter responded that the coffee beans weren't in a bowl, coffee was.
Her mother smiled and said that all three, the carrot, egg and beans faced the same adversity, boiling water. While the carrot and egg changed because of the adversity, the coffee beans were the only one to actually change their adversity. They turned the boiling water to coffee.
She said adversity makes us decide if we will come out from under it like the carrot, broken down and unable to hold form, like the egg, hard and rigid or like the coffee beans, which took adversity and changed it to something good.
Each day I try to be the coffee beans. Some days I feel like the egg, some days like the carrot. But I continue to try to be the coffee beans and change my adversity.
You can make this decision each day. Be the Coffee Bean...
