Posted on 06/17/2017 9:50:37 AM PDT by Salvation
The commercial below reminds us that the products we use don’t just come out of nowhere. Good goes around and around. The Cheerios in the cereal box started out as seeds in the ground, but the commercial stops well short of showing everyone we should thank for the final product.
• Before sowing the seed, the ground has to be tilled and prepared.
o Thank you to the farmers as well as those who invented, designed, and build the plows.
o Thanks to the steel workers and miners, who contribute the raw materials to build the machines that till.
o Thanks to the petroleum and refinery workers who supply the fuel for the machines to till the earth.
• Once the seed is planted, water, fertilizer, and pesticides need to be supplied in order to ensure a rich harvest.
o Thanks again to the farmers, who rise early in the morning in all kinds of weather to do this work.
o Thanks to those who invented and supply the fertilizer and pesticides.
• Once the crops are ready, they must be harvested and sent to the mill.
o Thanks to those who do the hard work of harvesting.
o Thanks to the truckers and rail workers, who are responsible for conveying the material to the mills.
o Thanks to those who designed, built, and maintain the roads, rails, trucks, and rail cars.
• Once at the mill, the raw material must be processed.
o Thanks to all who work in the mills.
o Thanks to those who invented the machines and processes.
o Thanks to those who supply the steel and the parts for the machines.
o Thanks to those who repair and maintain the machinery.
• Once out of the mill, it’s over more roads and rails to the warehouses and then finally the stores.
o Thanks to all who built the warehouses and stores.
o Thanks to those who carefully monitor inventory so that we consumers are seldom faced with empty shelves.
o Thanks to those who risked their money to build the warehouses and stores.
o Thanks to the bankers, investors, and the people whose deposited money serves to make cash available for the costs for such operations.
o Thanks to the store employees, who stock the shelves and ensure that the products we need are at hand.
This is only a brief list, but never forget that a huge number of people stand behind every box of cereal, behind every other product you buy. Do you see how interconnected we are?
Are you grateful to God, who sustains all of this and from whom every good and perfect gift comes? Each of us should be!
A light-hearted but true picture and video.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
SURELY you’re leaving something evil and deceptive out.
There hasn’t been a good message from ONE member of the Catholic in centuries!!! We’re doomed!
:)
Or so most Catholic threads besides your beautiful ones would make our detractors thinks and conform their already strong bias.
Beautiful and stop on thread.
Than you Salvation.
Thanks for your kind words.
Shortened version, via Paul: “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.”
A good message to remember, in the midst of our troubles.
Indeed.
The farmer doesn’t plow his field or plant his seeds for me.
The miller doesn’t grind the grain for me.
The baker doesn’t bake bread for me.
The grocer doesn’t stock food for me.
They do all those things for my money.
Another great analogy.
I liked this quote:
**Since only God can make a tree, I insist that only God could make me. Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.**
So that you can buy them when the products appear on the grocer’s shelf?
I was one of those.
But last Sunday at St Joseph in Marietta GA the Black priest gave an excellent sermon on the Catholic view of health. He never mentioned politics. But he gave the perfect destruction of Obamacare from a Judeo-Christian perspective.
I can't remember a better sermon ever in Catholic church.
Those of us who design and build things for a living (or as a hobby) are constantly reminded of this truth. I can design a part and 3D print it in plastic, or machine it in aluminum. But the milling machine, the 3D printer, and the stock with which I work are all complex beyond my imagining ... and beyond my individual capacity to build. God gave me thousands of coworkers ... almost all of whom I will never meet in this world ... to assist in my work.
Exactly.
The beauty of the free market is that by doing things for yourself, you do things for society.
Whereas, with socialism people are compelled to do things for each other if they don't volunteer. There is no incentive of reward, only the threat of punishment.
Do you remember if they have a website with a link to the sermons? That would be great.
Your money that they recycle by buying more grain, baking more bread, and stocking more groceries. See how it works?
Oh I thought this was about the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad.
Yeah, but they do it for you, too.
Most people derive some degree of satisfaction -— sometimes a little, sometimes *tremendous* satisfaction -— from the fact that their work is constructive and meaningful.
We like feeling that we are useful members of our world.
We aren’t just money-maximizing bots. Otherwise nobody would be making peanut butter and everybody would be making porn.
So yeah, I am grateful for, and to, every human being who enriches and blesses my life, their goodness being a reflection of the goodness of their Maker. Blessed be His Name.
yes, that’s it.
I look at like it like playing a good pick-up game of football or whatever.
The game is meant to be a competition, to score for yourself and your team (you and your family), and to win while playing fairly. The object of the game is to win.
At the end of the game you thank the opposing team for the good, fair play because everyone benefited from the game, even the losers.
What we can forget is that competition and profit are good for society, not only charitable acts, and for something to be good does not necessarily mean that it must be charitable.
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