MorningSong
16th December 2010, 14:03
Just a thought...
Growing Good Corn
By: Author Unknown
There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each
year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a
blue ribbon.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned
something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter
discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his
neighbors.
"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your
neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with
yours each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind
picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from
field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my
corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors
grow good corn."
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His
corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also
improves.
So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace
must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who
choose to live well must help others to live well, for the
value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And
those who choose to be happy must help others to find
happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the
welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good
corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
Growing Good Corn
By: Author Unknown
There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each
year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a
blue ribbon.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned
something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter
discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his
neighbors.
"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your
neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with
yours each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind
picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from
field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my
corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors
grow good corn."
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His
corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also
improves.
So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace
must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who
choose to live well must help others to live well, for the
value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And
those who choose to be happy must help others to find
happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the
welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good
corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.