PUSH!!!

Hello there.. !!!
Iam glad to be here after a long while..
Without wasting much time, let me share with you my topic for today:
Pray Until Something Happens [PUSH].....

Am reminded of some thing very interesting that I read recently.. Which I would like to share with all of you. Perhaps some of you might hav read this.... but Please do not let that stop you from reading my thoughts, which I hav added here..
Believe me, you would like what I hav written.. 

Why dont you take three pots of water?
OK, now , place 3 carrots in one pot... 3 eggs in another one... and some coffee beans ground into coffee powder, into the third pot...

Place all 3 pots for boiling................................

Now, after 10 min, what do you see??

Lets go hand in hand and take a look at each of these pots...

So here's the first pot.......... Hmmmm, what did you put here? Carrots...!! Nice , orange colored carrots... but when you boiled them, what happened?? They hav lost their freshness.. their crispiness.. their bright orange color... The hot water caused the carrots to become SOFT.....!! Now they can be easily breakable..palatable for even a two year old!!
Now lets see what happened to the other pot... Oh there are eggs... ! Three of them!! Hmmm, YUMM!!! But wait a minute.... the eggs went in soft inside......yet the boiling hot water has made it so firm...So hard... !

Lets leave the eggs for the time being and come with me to take a look at the third pot.....
OOOHHHHH, what a smell!! what an aroma!! What gorgeous taste!! Just a sip of the wonderful brewing coffee ..... and all your senses are awakened!!
Unlike our two other friends back in the 2 pots, the hot boiling water did not do anything to the coffee powder... But its the Coffee powder which changed the water!!! Isn't that great??

Now, in the pretext of the above, lets take a peek at our lives.

Life is not always easy...
Life is sometimes very tough..
At times, life throws stones at us which we never imagined... We think to ourselves "I do not deserve this".
People dont treat us the way we hope .. Very few follows the commandment "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"......
We work so hard, yet without any result.....
We do not have good friends to uplift us...
What do we do during such trials and tribulations??
Is it easier to cover the whole earth with red carpet OR wiser to wear suitable shoes to walk on hard ground?
Let's think about those three pots.

Some of us are like carrots... We enter our life with fervor, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, chirpiness, briskness...oh what an energy!! The right Sanguine spirit in us!! But by the time we realise that the water around us is getting hotter and hotter, we lose our natural qualities one by one.....we lose our fighting spirit.. we become tired... we compare ourselves with others.. we are unable to run behind our dreams, desires and wishes... we become Soft, Sad, Secluded, Sensitive...easily hurt by even a child!!! Just like our friends - the Carrots!

Some are like the eggs.......We enter our lives , thinking that everything around us is goody-goody...With our soft, sensitive hearts, we step into the world.. one tiny meek step at a time... cautiously darting our eyes around, right to left....ready to bring on those tears every time we feel that our soft hearts are being trampled upon... We go on like that for a while... when we realise to ourselves that the world is no longer a goody-goody place as we hoped it to be...Its rather bad, hurting, humiliating and sometimes even suffocates us...So what do we turn into?? We turn in like those eggs... The hot water changes us..our hearts become so hard.. feelings turn bitter...no more warmth in us.. no more love.. no more compassion...! Just like our friends-the eggs!!

BUT, some are like the Coffee Beans...Coffee Beans need to be crushed into fine powder, to bring out the exotic aroma of wonderful coffee.. Similarly, early in life, as some of us take our maiden step into the World, we are crushed... churned seven times in the hot furnace.. The process is extremely painful.. hurts beyond measure...our hearts bled to the last tiny drop.... YET, by the Grace and Strength of our Creator, we emerge from it.. we try to learn new things.. we grow in our experiences..we acquire new skills... we meet new people, we earn new friends.. we try to be cheerful all the time...We try to make the world around us a better place.. Problems, difficulties, trials and tribulations makes us tougher, stronger and better!

Just like our friends - the Coffee Beans!!
The process of being ground to fine powder made the beans to give out the fresh aroma that every one in this world craves for......The boiling water did nothing to the coffee powder... It is the coffee powder which changed the water... the HOTTER the water, the BETTER the taste of the coffee!!

Problems in life do arise.. Water gets tougher and rougher...We must not give up.. We must keep trying.. We must PUSH - Pray Until Something Happens!!

So my friend, ask yourselves... Think of the Carrots, The Eggs, The Coffee Beans......
Which one are you? Which one hav you become? Which one hav you been so far??
Which do you aim to be??