Platter of Half Baked Ideas

Follow Your Dream ================= Before you look for things to change... look deep inside your soul. The Lord has given you all the clues... always follow your dream. Inviting trouble is so easy to do... it happens without warning. Avoiding problems is easier said than done... always follow your dream. Sometimes things just turn out bad... and you don't know where to turn. The answer is as close as your heart... always follow your dream. Hope has always been the key... it's sometimes our only hope. When things are darkest and looking bleak... always follow your dream. Only the Lord has all the answers... and he shares them with only a few. But faith is as close as we sometimes can get... always follow your dream. Perhaps you feel the end is near... and you've done everything you can. Never give up, anything can happen... if you always follow your dream. -- "Some men see things as they are.. and ask why.. I see things as they might be... and ask why not?" ---- ...

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 m...