Life Lesson #2

I recently remembered a story I heard when I was a kid about a man named John Chapman. He lived from 1774-1845, and was a frontier man. He went west during a time of great uncertainty in our nation’s history. He made sure that he shared his faith with everyone that he encountered. Awesome man. This man had the foresight to know that many, many people would be going west like he did. He also knew that these people would need food, shelter and many others things on their journey.

So he began to plant.

Some accounts say that the fields that he worked numbered in the hundreds of thousands of acres. John started at age twenty five, and did not stop until he died. For a nation of rugged individualists, he was an icon. He still is. Many families owe their lives to him. All some of them ate for weeks were apples. The fruits of his labor. People would be thanking God for ‘Johnny Appleseed’ even through the Civil War and beyond.

My point is simply this. You never know who or how many people you will be affecting when you plant seeds. Literally. So plant the seeds that will nourish other people. Be alert and aware of events and surroundings that will allow you to plant seeds. Then, plant without expectation. Life lesson #2, plant the seeds.