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What I loved most of all was how tradition was merged with modern culture.
Did you notice how the wedding party was heavily influenced by brides gone by.
KAte MIDDletON wore a dress whose bodice was heavily reminiscent of another commoner marrying into royalty.
That of Princess Grace of Monaco.
in 1956 Grace Kelly married His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Then there were there were the page boys and flower girls.
Maybe the influence was a bit looser but I could see evidence of William s own fathers wedding in 1981 to the then Lady Diana Spencer in their selection of outfits.
Finally, the sensational dress and figure displayed by Kate s sister Pippa, took me back to the 1996.
To the marriage of American royalty , John F Kennedy Jnr to Carolyn Bessette.
You have to admit Pippa s dress kept all of our grumbling husbands happy.
I neither cried nor cheered for the couple but I did delight in being transported to a place where fairy tales do come true.
I'd love to stay on that fairytale theme but the reality is, life is not a fairy tale and challenges confront us all the time.
Which is why I wanted to share the following story with you.
A young woman went to her were unique, however.
mother and told her about her life After they were in the 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.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and 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 do you see Carrots, eggs, and coffee, she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft.
She then asked her to take an egg and break it.
After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled spirit and a hardened heart Or am egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip I like the coffee bean The bean the coffee.
The daughter smiled, actually changes the hot water, the as she tasted its rich aroma.
The very circumstance that brings the daughter then asked.
What does pain.
When the water gets hot, it it mean Her mother explained releases the fragrance and flavor.
If that each of these objects had you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better faced the same adversity boiling and change the situation around water but each reacted differently.
you.
When the hours are the darkest The carrot went in strong, hard and and trials are their greatest do you unrelenting.
However after being elevate to another lever How do subjected to the boiling water, you handle adversity Are you a it softened and became weak.
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The ground coffee beans www.claremaxfield.com.au boiling water they seems str pain and adversity and become soft and lose my str starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat Did I have a fluid spirit, but after death, a breakup, a financial har some other trial, have I become hardened and stif look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff