Planting Seeds
If given a choice, which would you rather have, an apple, or the apple seeds? Quite likely, most of us would choose the apple.
A long time ago, there was a guy who would have taken the seeds. He was a fanatic about apple seeds, so much so that people called him ‘Johnny Appleseed.’ For many years, he walked across hundreds of miles of our American country, back when most of it was frontier land, and everywhere he went he planted apple seeds. The trees from those seeds fed thousands and thousands of people in later generations. That is genuine long-range planning!
Many of us are interested mainly in the present. We do not think ahead as Johnny Appleseed did.
Maybe you do not wish to travel about planting apple seeds like he did. But there is another kind of seed you can plant every day, the seed of good feelings between you and your fellow human beings.
You can do it by living the motto, “Do a Daily Good Deed.” Every time you do good, you are planting a seed of good feeling. That seed may start the growth of a tree of Good Turns in each person you help. So that one Good Turn may lead to many other Good Turns through the years, affecting the lives of thousands of people.
Be a Johnny Good Deeds or a Jenny Good Deeds, and you will plant good feelings, for people of today and for generations to come.
by Author Unknown
If given a choice, which would you rather have, an apple, or the apple seeds? Quite likely, most of us would choose the apple.
A long time ago, there was a guy who would have taken the seeds. He was a fanatic about apple seeds, so much so that people called him ‘Johnny Appleseed.’ For many years, he walked across hundreds of miles of our American country, back when most of it was frontier land, and everywhere he went he planted apple seeds. The trees from those seeds fed thousands and thousands of people in later generations. That is genuine long-range planning!
Many of us are interested mainly in the present. We do not think ahead as Johnny Appleseed did.
Maybe you do not wish to travel about planting apple seeds like he did. But there is another kind of seed you can plant every day, the seed of good feelings between you and your fellow human beings.
You can do it by living the motto, “Do a Daily Good Deed.” Every time you do good, you are planting a seed of good feeling. That seed may start the growth of a tree of Good Turns in each person you help. So that one Good Turn may lead to many other Good Turns through the years, affecting the lives of thousands of people.
Be a Johnny Good Deeds or a Jenny Good Deeds, and you will plant good feelings, for people of today and for generations to come.
by Author Unknown
