The Struggles of Our Life.

Honorable judges, teachers and friends. Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is

Siriwimon Okmaen.My nickname is Panya. I am 11 years old. I’m in Grade 5 at
Assumption Convent Lopburi School. Today, I am going to tell you a story
entitled “The struggles of Our Life.”

Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was
miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was
tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was
solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen.
He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.

Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the
second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and
boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter moaned and
impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he
turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in
a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the
coffee out and placed it in a cup.

Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and
coffee,” she hastily replied.

“Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that 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.

Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her
face.

“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced
the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it
became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting
its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg
became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were
exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something
new.

“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your
door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Moral: In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that
truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all
about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into
something positive.
How much do you know the Bible?
1. What is the shortest chapter in the Bible? Psalm 117 (it has only two verses)
2. What is the longest chapter in the Bible? Psalm 119 (it has only 176 verses)
3. What is the middle verse in the Bible? Psalm 118:8 (It is better to trust in the
Lord than to put confidence in man)
4. what is the shortest memory verse in the bible? John 11:35 KJV. Jesus wept.1
Thessalonians 5:16 KJV. Rejoice evermore.
5. Which books come before and after the gospel according to Luke? (The gospels
according to Mark and John)
6. Which two birds did Noah send out of the ark as messengers? (Raven and dove)
7. Who said: “I myself, and my house, want to serve the Lord!”? (Joshua)
8. Name three of Jesus’ disciples whose names begin with “J”. (Jacob, John and
Judas)
9. How many people were saved on the ark? (8)
10.What is quoted in John 14,6? (I am the way, the truth and the life. No one
comes to the father except through me).
11.Who prophesized the coming of Jesus shortly beforehand? (John the Baptist)
12.What happened first? Jesus’ christening or the feeding of the 5000? (Jesus’
christening)
13.Name three women in the bible whose names begin with „R”. (Rebecca, Rachel,
Ruth)
14.What is written in 1. Timothy 2,4? (God wants all people to be saved and come
to recognize the truth.)
15.Which disciple found a coin in the mouth of a fish? (Peter)
16.What happened first? Appointment of Matthew as an apostle or the appearance
of the Holy Spirit? (Appointment of Matthew as an apostle)
17.What four books tell about Jesus’ life on Earth? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
18.What is the longest book in the Bible? Psalms
19.What is the shortest book in the Bible? 3 John
20.How many books are in the Bible? 66
21. How many books in the Old Testament? 39 books in the OT
22. How many books in the New Testament? 27 books in the NT
23. Which NT book has Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount? Matthew
24.Which human author wrote the most words in the Bible? Moses wrote 125,139
words.
25.When God showed Abram the stars in the sky, what did he promise? That
Abram would have more descendants than the number of stars.