The Broccoli Noodle Soup 🥣 | Stories for Good Life Series

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How many of you like Broccoli Noodle Soup? Well, this son and father loved it! 😊🍜

At a certain point in time, Broccoli was quite expensive and hard to come by. So whenever they got broccoli the next two or three meals would be broccoli noodle soup.

So one time the father and son were having dinner and there were two bowls of soup; one with two pieces of broccoli on top and the other one didn't have any broccoli. And so the father said, “Son, choose which bowl would you like?”

And so of course the son said, “Hmmm I want the one with broccoli on top!” And so the son was eating his broccoli noodle soup joyously. Then he looked at his father's bowl and when his father was eating soup, in the bottom of the bowl there were like four or five pieces of broccoli. He said, “Whoa wow!”

And then the father looked at the son and he said “Son, don't always rely on what you see, there's always something deeper than what the eyes can see”, and so the son said “Okay..”

The next day there was broccoli noodle soup again! The father put both bowls; one bowl had two pieces of broccoli on top, and the other one didn't. So the father said, “Son, choose which bowl of broccoli you want.”

So the son said “Mmm I know this trick” and he picked the one without the broccoli on top. And so he was eating and his father ate the bowl with the broccoli on top. So the son was eating, eating, eating, and he waited, waited to get to the bottom because he was like “Oh there must be lots of broccoli there” but there was nothing, there was nothing 😮

And the father looked at the son and said “Son, don't rely on just one experience. Different things can happen at different times; you just never know!”

The son said, “Okay, okay..”

And then the next evening broccoli noodle soup again!

So the father put two bowls of broccoli noodle soup; one with two broccolis on top, the other one without.

And he said, “Son, choose your bowl!”

And the son said, “No. Father, you choose. You choose whichever one you want and I'm fine with whatever is left.”

And so his father chose one bowl and started eating and gave the other bowl to the son.

To the son's surprise, when he was eating, he found not one, not two, but five pieces of broccoli in his soup 😍

And he was enjoying it thoroughly.

He looked at his father and his father said, “Son, you cannot rely on what you see you must look deeper. You cannot rely on just one experience because different things can happen at different times but you can rely on goodness. Whenever you have a good intention in your heart goodness will always come back to you in some way, in some shape, in some form. Today just happens to be broccoli.”

Discussion questions:

1) If you were the son, how would you respond if your father asked you to choose a bowl of soup? 

2) Why can’t we rely on what we see? Why can’t we rely on what we experience?

3) Share a moment where goodness actually came back to you.

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