Seeds

Good Morning,

Sometimes in life we can see not the effects we have upon the world. This often prevents us from understanding that like a pebble dropped into the ocean we too create a ripple in the vastness of our world. Our actions, our words, and even our thoughts ripple outward to be reflected in everything around us. My grandfather was somewhat of a history buff and would clip out stories from the newspaper. The following story just goes to show that regardless of what we can see, it is what we do that is more important.

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. He wanted to pay the farmer for saving his sons life. The Scottish farmer would not accept payment for what anyone would do, and refused the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. The nobleman offered to take the farmers son under wing and provide him a good education.

Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

As it has been said we reap what we sow.

Have a beautiful day.

Peace and Love, Jim