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Carrots,
Eggs and Coffee A daughter complained to her father about her life, how things were so hard for her. She didn't know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. When the water came to a boil, he placed carrots in one, in another eggs, and in the last ground coffee beans. Then he let them sit and boil, without saying a word. The daughter impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After about twenty minutes he got up and turned off the burners. He placed the carrots in a bowl. He dipped the eggs out and placed them in another bowl Then he ladled the coffee out and put it in a third bowl. Finally, turning to his daughter he asked "What do you see?" "Just carrots, eggs and coffee," she replied. He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did. They were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Last, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled, as she tasted the richness of it's flavor. Humbly, she asked, "What does all this mean, Father?" He explained, each of the items had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently. The carrots went in hard, strong, and unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water they became soft and weak. The egg had been fragile, it's thin outer shell protecting it's liquid interior. But, after sifting in the boiling water, it's insides became hardened. The coffee beans were unique, instead of changing, in reaction to the water, they instead changed the water! "Which are you?" he asked his daughter. When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity you wilt become soft and lose your strength? Are you the egg which starts off with a malleable heart, and a fluid spirit, but after a breakup, death, divorce, layoff, or injury becomes hardened and stiff? Your shell looks the same, but have you become bitter and tough, with a dampened spirit and cold, cold heart ...? Or... are you like the Coffee Bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that's bringing the pain...! When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better...! If you're like the bean, when things are at their worst, you just get better and make things better all around you...! ❦ |
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SERMON:
"The
Blessings of Justification"
(Romans 5:1-4) |
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SERMON:
"The
Fall of Adam and Eve"
(Genesis 3:22-24) |
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Congratulations.
. . Baptized Into
Christ Add this information to your directory:
Youth Fellowship Children’s Class
UPCOMING
AREA EVENTS: • April 14 - HOMECOMING |
Our
hats are off to our ladies who hosted the Special Ladies Day
here at Orange Street yesterday (Saturday), in what has been described
as an enormous success. The number of ladies in attendance was 190
and there were 21 congregations represented. Congratulations to
all those who planned, implemented and took part in this momentous
occasion.
Our
hearts were made to rejoice with the angels in Heaven at the response
of Nathan Guy, who came forward last Sunday evening, confessing
Christ and being baptized for the remission of his sins. Keep brother
Guy in your prayers and continue to encourage him to run the race
that is set before him.
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Don’t
forget to attend the weekly Prayer Session in Room #3 - each Sunday
evening at 5:30
Mickey Merritt, Sherry Hobbs, Norris Clark, Wilda
Cox, Jasper Sims, In The Nursing Homes Doc Anderson [WH Health & Rehab], Elizabeth Gillespie [Inn at Sharon Brooke], Victoria Wooster (Ohio)
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