carrot, eggs or coffee bean?

What happen when u put these into pot of boiling water?
carrot --> soft
egg --> hard boiled egg
coffee bean --> tasty coffee with sweet aroma (for coffee lovers out there...heheh)

When we are facing a trial or a problem, what will be the effect on us? Will we be drained out or strengthen by our past failures or circumstances? Some people may be hard and steady before they meet with a challenge. Soon after, they become useless and hopeless. Other people may seem fragile but turn out to be stronger and firmer after that.

Imagine that our problems and burdens are like boiling water. Will we end up soggy like a carrot or steadfast like an egg? Can we be otherwise? Coffee bean, small with enormous impact, is able to change the colour of the boiling water, gives out the sweet aroma and taste to those who drink it. People can hardly forget the sweetness of coffee. They can never miss it when they inhale the fragrance. Human instinct will tell it is from the coffee bean. Inevitable. And addictive.

We can choose to let the problem change us. It can either turn us into a wreck or strengthen us. However, we can consider to allow ourselves to learn something from it. To turn sorrow and pain into joy. Overcoming the problems allows us to discover our weaknesses and work to it. Only then, we can instill a new self, a better being. We can then walk with the new fragrance, the new aroma where we have grown out of our old self and walk anew. This will mature our thoughts.

When our thinking mature and our thoughts are different, we will have a different perspective of life. Life is merely ourselves or our achievements. It is about how we solve our problems and leaving traces of our weaknesses behind so that we can turn over a new leaf. Be a different person altogether. How? Most of the source to our trials are us frankly. Problems and unfortunate happens when God wants to mold us, discipline us and teach us a lesson by telling us our problem. If there is a situation that we desire to be patient, will God provide u with people that are easy to handle? Only irritating friends allows us to exercise to be patient. See that we are the cause of it? It's only though this we can improve our being to give out the aroma, aroma of coffee bean.

which would be ur choice? a carrot, an egg or coffee beans? For me...i would like to be coffee bean for most of the circumstances i'll face in the future.

Wanna thank God and k.lynn for sharing this tonite. It was really thirst quenching.

God Bless