Do you know how to grow good corn????

Happy Monday evening and go KU in the college basketball championship game....it is not looking to good for the JayHawks right now...but they can come back..

In prayer this evening I asked special blessings and give all thanks for the sweet lady who came through her back surgery today and is now on the road to recovery, praise be to God for the success of the surgery. I give thanks to a very sweet friend who I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting while on her mission here in Utah many years ago, God places people in our lives at all different times for reasons, some in the here and now and some down the road. I am blessed to have her in my life. I asked God to bless each of us with our needs and to see inside our hearts and comfort all of the fears, tears and chaos that is going on. I ask God to continue to allow us his strength, his peace, his calm and always his abundant love. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask these mercies and graces. Amen...

I think many of us can benefit from the story below...we need to realize that by helping others...we are helping ourselves!!! You know what I say about your bricks in heaven!!!!

Growing Good Corn

There was a Nebraska 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 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 help our neighbors grow good corn.