Happy Monday !!

This  is the top of my china hutch.  
 Down below is the updated Fall version!!

Happy Monday Sweet Friends,

Hope you are having a good Monday,

and that you also had a very nice

weekend!!

Ours was good, but very quiet, we got some

 paperwork and stuff done that needed to be

taken care of.

  The highlight of our weekend was watching

"letters to Juliet" Friday night, and then again 

on Saturday while we did the gazelle.  We

also played the new card games we learned

a few weekends ago.  We are quickly 

wearing them out too!!  lol

It was such a lovely movie we were eager

 to watch it again!!  If you haven't seen

it yet,  I would highly  ecommend it!!

Well, took our absentee ballots to the post

 office today.  Tryingto do our part of ridding

 our country of bad politicians!!

works for me!!  lol

Someone sent me this neat lil story thru

 email today and thought you might enjoy it 

as well.  It is thought provoking.....

Carrots, Eggs & Coffee! 

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.

 It seemed as one problem was solved, a new 

one arose. 

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three

 pots with water and placed each on a high fire.

 Soon the pots came to boil. 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 she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

 Turning to her daughter, she asked, 

' Tell me what you see.' 

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied. 

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to 

feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were

soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take 

an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell,

 she observed the hard boiled egg. 

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee.

The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The

daughter then asked,

'What does it mean, mother?' 

Her mother explained that each of these objects had

 faced the same adversity: boiling water.

Each 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 inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans

 were unique, however. After they were in the boiling

 water, they had changed the water.. 

'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 this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems

 strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and 

become soft and lose my strength? 

Am I the egg that starts 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

hardened heart? 

Or am I like the coffee bean? 

The bean actually changes the hot water, the very 

circumstance that brings the pain. When the water 

gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor.

 If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst,

 you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hour is the darkest and trials are their

greatest do you  elevate yourself to another level?

How do you handle adversity? 

Are you a carrot, an egg  or a coffee bean? 

My Thoughts!!
Think we all know being the coffee bean is only
 possible with the Lord's help!!

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May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,

 enough trials to make you strong,

 enough sorrow to keep you human and 

enough hope to make you happy. 

The happiest of people don't necessarily have

 the best of everything; they just make the most of

 everything that comes a long their way. The

 brightest future will always be based on a forgotten

 past; you can't go forward in life until you let go 

of your past failures and heartaches. 

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Jo Bear,  says bye now,

Thanks for stopping by

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If you are participating in the 140 days of prayer

for our nation, today is week #16 and

 our scripture reading

is Psalm 139:13-16, and we are to

 pray about the killing of the unborn.

Hope you all have a Marvelous Monday

with friends and family and/or pets!!

Love, Blessings, and Hugs,

Nellie