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Growing Good Corn

Growing Good Corn

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.

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