Are You A Carrot, Egg, Or Coffee Bean?

When life throws you in hot water, you can choose to be a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean.

The carrot goes in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softens and becomes weak.

The egg is fragile: its thin outer shell protects its liquid center. But, after sitting in boiling water, its insides harden.

The ground coffee beans are unique. They change the boiling water.

When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?

Are you like the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, wilts and becomes soft?

Are you like the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat and acquires a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or, are you like the coffee bean that actually changes the hot water--the very circumstances that bring the pain? If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you instead of letting it change you.