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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"Ninure Saunders" |
| Date: |
15 Sep 2004 05:55:44 AM |
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(~) Must Help My Neighbors |
(~) Must Help My Neighbors
(Author Unknown)
James Bender, in his book "How to Talk Well" (New York: McGraw-Hill Book
Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning
corn.
Each year the farmer 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 hisseed 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 in other dimensions:
Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at 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
helpour neighbors grow good corn.
"Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for
each other's faults because of your love."
Ephesians 4:2 (TLB)
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