The Lesson of Growing Good Corn

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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 our world. 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.

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Source:Indianchild.com

Today's post comes from coach Muller, a friend who has a blog called Good Time Stories. For great stories, be sure to check out his blog.

Applaud Qualities in Others

A personality trait lacking in our leaders today is the skill of building others up. A person can achieve much greater things when they only care about doing what’s right and do not have to receive the credit. People work hard so give them the credit when they deserve it. No one is perfect but there are qualities in everyone that can be applauded.

I don’t know about you, but I like being around people that can open doors of interesting topics to talk about rather than about the wrong going on. Also, people that have a sense of humor or that seem to find ways to stimulate conversation through amazing facts of the world or the love of nature are fun to be around. With the way technology is today, people can easily obtain interesting information from current events, news, and blogs.

We need more people today who can just be themselves with new interesting ways to enjoy life. Remember the character named Mary Poppins in the 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews. She invented new ways to make boring task exciting. She came up with words like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Every day was a holiday with Mary as she was bigger than life, an original, always positive, energetic, and an encouragement to others. Let us all strive to be like Mary by making life a little happier, burdens a little lighter, and time a little sweeter.

There are many lessons we can learn from old TV shows or movies even though they are not factual. Reruns of the Andy Griffith show are available and we can see how Andy had a knack of knowing how to handle situations. There was one episode when Andy was trapped in a cave and found a way out but heard that Barney was organizing a rescue and decided to go back in the cave to let Barney look good. The lesson we can learn is to always take opportunity to make others feel good about who they are.

We are all God’s creation and share a common Father who loves and cares for everyone. Let us regard each other as a national treasure. We are all brothers and sisters that should live in harmony with one another, building each other up, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Let us dream big because we live in a big universe and God can handle big dreams.

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