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Help Our Neighbour
By peace | August 21, 2007
This is related to my previous post titled “Our Neighbour“, a post about Who is our Neighbour. This is not a question which I first encounter. I think this is a question which Catholics or Christians will often have to ask themselves, as they are always mentioned in the bible. During my Bible Studies in my Secondary School, I was thought on this topic as well. The Good Samaritan as described in St. Luke was studied and it is a very good parable to describe the meaning of a neighbour.
On Monday evening, during one of the First Holy Communion programme, the topic on Who Is My Neighbour was being taught and discussed again. This time, in addition to the parable of The Good Samaritan, another relevant story was told. This is not a new story to me. However, reading the story again reinforces what I had learned before, and I can say that this story I had long ‘forgotten’ about it. Here is what the story is all about:
This is a story of 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 neighbours.
“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours 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 neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours to grow good corn.“
He is very much aware of the correctness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbours’ corn also improves.
So it is in other dimensions. Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbours to be at 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 neighbours grow good corn.
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