I have an interesting analogy today. Today's message at church was a unique tribute to mothers, talks were given on Adversity. Oddly enough it is true. My good friend gave a wonderful message about facing adversity and coming out stronger and more faithful. She is a wonderful example and I only hope that I can become half of what she is.
So, my thought is rather pathetic but it is real none the less. I was lying in bed momentarily after church and said to my sympathetic husband "I feel like a dehydrated carrot", SNORE (Kevin was asleep beside me).
As I sat listening to the amazing message presented by my friend, who I happen to admire a great deal, I began to think about the adversity I have faced and whether I learned everything I should have learned, did I really grow from it. I then noticed the woman within my peripheral vision, all of which are amazing women! I had high regard for each of them and the respect I had for each of them was huge, each in a different way! So, while I was laying in my bed reflecting on these amazing women I oddly thought of a really good vegetable soup. All of these women were like the amazing delicious ingredients in the soup. Vegetable soup would not be the same if any vegetable was missing.
And here I was feeling rather inadequate among such amazing ingredients, realized I was a dehydrated carrot that was thrown into the soup. If only I could rehydrate myself and become just as amazing as the fresh potato or home grown pea.
I understand that was not my friend's intent, to make me feel like a dehydrated carrot. I certainly left the meeting thinking to myself, half conversing with God, and asking "Have I sufficiently learned?" If I had I wouldn't be asking that, right?
I want to be a fresh, home grown, organic carrot. But seen as how I am not I will make the best of this "soup" and through the process of being stirred and simmered, maybe I can soak up some of the soup's goodness and flavor. So, although I was originally thrown in as a dehydrated carrot, maybe in the end it will seem as though I was just as fresh and homegrown as all the other amazing ingredients and no one will ever know the difference.
