ARE YOU A CARROT, EGG OR COFFEE?

Here’s some fun for the day

TRIVIA: (Answer below)

What popular candy bar is named after the maker’s favorite horse?

JOKE:

Q:  What clothes did Delaware?
A:  A New Jersey

QUOTE:

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(George Burns)

TRICIA’S TWEET OF THE DAY:

When we give encouragement, it needs to be genuine & from the heart.  Don’t be stingy with encouragement, it needs to be given often.

RANDOM OBSERVATION:

I heard a object lesson/comparison many years ago that has stuck with me & that I’ve used several times when teaching in a small group setting.   You may have heard it too, but just in case you haven’t, I thought I’d share it in today’s post.    It’s about how we react when faced with difficulties and adversity & it uses a carrot, egg & coffee grinds to give the comparison.  

Add the same adversity to each on of these items & they each have a different reaction that can be comparable to human reactions.   In this example, the ‘adversity’ that the carrot, egg & coffee grinds are each subjected to is boiling water.   

The carrot goes in strong, hard & unrelenting.   However, after subjected to boiling water , it becomes softened & weak.

The egg had been fragile.   It’s thin, outer shell protected a liquid center.  After sitting in the boiling water, it’s inside became hardened.

The coffee grinds are unique in that, instead of being affected by the boiling water, they changed the water.

So which are you?   When adversity knocks on your door....how do you respond?

Are you the carrot?   You seem strong, but with pain & difficulties, you wilt, become soft & lose your strength.

Are you the egg?  You started with a malleable heart, but after a death, breakup,  financial hardship or some other trial you became hardened.   Do you appear the same on the outside, but inside you’ve changed & become bitter & tough with a hardened heart?

Or are you like the coffee grinds.   When things are at their worse, you get better & change the situation around you.    When the hour is darkest & the trials their greatest, do you elevate to another level?

Most likely, we have been one of these at some time or another with the goal to react more often like the coffee than the carrot or the egg.   We will all face difficulties in life, no one is immune to them.  We can’t always choose what happens to us in life, but we can choose how we react.   We can choose our attitude....let’s choose to be like the coffee.

So take a moment today to think of how you handle adversity.  Are you the carrot, the egg or the coffee??

TRIVIA ANSWER:
Snickers

Until next time.....