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When Life Hits are You a Carrot, Egg, or Coffee?

Posted on 13/08/2016 by Grumpa Joe

An excellent analogy story.

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Beautiful Story by Unknown Author.

Are you a Carrot, Egg, or Coffee ? or all three? You will never look at a Carrot, Egg,or Coffee in the same way.

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A young woman went to her mother and told her 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 fighting and struggling.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans.

She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then…

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