Coffee......for adversity....
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life,
how things were so hard for her. She didn't know how she was
going to make it, and she wanted to give up. She was tired of
fighting and struggling. It seemed as one of her problems was
solved, a new one popped up.
Her mother took her into her kitchen, where she filled three
pots with water. In the first pot, she placed some carrots,
in the second one, she placed some eggs, and in the third
pot, she placed some ground coffee beans.She let them sit and
boil without saying a word, then in about twenty minutes, she
turned off the burners. She fished out the carrots and placed
them into a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them
into another bowl,then she ladled the coffee into yet another
bowl. Turning to her complaining daughter, she asked, "Tell
me, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," her daughter replied.
She brought her daughter closer, and asked her to feel the
carrots. She did,and noticed that they were now soft. She
told her daughter to break an egg,which she did, and after
removing the shell, she saw that the egg was now hard-boiled.
Finally, she told her daughter to sip the coffee. The
daughter smiled as she tasted the rich flavor, then asked,
"What's the point,mother?"
Her mother explained that each of the three objects had faced
the very same adversity, -- boiling water, -- but each had
reacted differently: The carrot went in strong, hard, and
unrelenting. However, 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
its insides became hardened. The ground coffee beans were
unique, however. After they were in the boiling water,they
had changed the water! "Now, 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 it like this.......
Which am I? Am I a carrot that appears to be strong, but with
pain and adversity, do I wilt, and become soft and lose my
strength?
Am I an egg, that starts out 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 a hardened heart ?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually CHANGES THE
WATER!! The very circumstance that brings the pain!! When the
water gets hot, it releases its fragrance and flavour. If you
are like the bean, when things are at their worst and trials
are their greatest, you get better......and change the
situation around you !
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Verily
with hardship, there is ease(relief). Qur'an( 94: 6)
"A
true Muslim is thankful to Allah in prosperity, and resigned
to His will in adversity." (MUSLIM)
“Do
you reckon that you can enter paradise unless Allah has
identified those among you who strive hard in His cause and
who are patient in adversity?” Qur'an( Al Imran" 3:
142-143)
Hazrat
Abu Hurairah(R.A.) reported that the Prophet(sallallahu
alaiyhi wassallam) has said that, when a believer suffers
some trouble or pain; even a thorn prick, Allah on account of
this trouble forgives his sins. (BUKHARI, MUSLIM)
