Pondering
I am sorry about yesterday. I was home, just not feeling well. Tis the season for all of us to be hustling bustling. Some have papers and finals, some are worried about bring up their mid-term grades, some are struggling to make up work that was never completed, others are thinking of Christmas gifts, and then there are those who are just trying to survive.
I don't know where you fall in this mix. I know that I fall in there somewhere. I was reading an email the other day that has me pondering. This email was encouraging me to buy only products that are made in the United States. They presented a nice argument. However it bothered me. At the beginning of the post, they were telling me how one grasshopper could not stop a train, but a billion could. If we could convince a billion Americans to purchase one USA made products, we would be able to open more jobs for those in the United States.
OK, that makes some sense. They also claimed that for every product we purchase that was made outside the USA, we are causing someone somewhere to lose a job. That makes senses as well. So, this is what I am understanding. If I purchase a product that is made outside the USA someone loses their job. Doesn't that mean that if I purchase a product made in the USA, someone somewhere also loses a job? How is that right? I don't win either way. Someone always loses.
Suddenly I was reminded of my reading in the Book of Mormon. In Jacob, chapters 3 and 4, he is calling them to repentance. He is comparing the Nephites to the Lamanites and how the Nephites hate the Lamanites because of their filthiness. Suddenly, I envisioned this group of Nephites saying we don't deal with the Lamanites because they are filthy, dark skinned, and don't live or believe the way we believe and live. Therefore we are justified in saying we are better than they are and it is more important that we survive than they survive.
I fast forward to many year later in the Book of Mormon. Many Lamanites are now believing just the same, trying to live just the same, and trying to live up to the blessings of our father in heaven. Were there still Nephites saying, don't buy if it was made in the city of Ammon because that would mean that someone in Zarahemla would lose a job.
What if started saying that half a billion grasshoppers and half a billion butterflies combined could make the same difference as a billion grasshoppers. Why are we not combining as God's Children to make the difference? Doesn't that make more sense?
Think about it for a while. We need to unite collectively, not divided
I don't know where you fall in this mix. I know that I fall in there somewhere. I was reading an email the other day that has me pondering. This email was encouraging me to buy only products that are made in the United States. They presented a nice argument. However it bothered me. At the beginning of the post, they were telling me how one grasshopper could not stop a train, but a billion could. If we could convince a billion Americans to purchase one USA made products, we would be able to open more jobs for those in the United States.
OK, that makes some sense. They also claimed that for every product we purchase that was made outside the USA, we are causing someone somewhere to lose a job. That makes senses as well. So, this is what I am understanding. If I purchase a product that is made outside the USA someone loses their job. Doesn't that mean that if I purchase a product made in the USA, someone somewhere also loses a job? How is that right? I don't win either way. Someone always loses.
Suddenly I was reminded of my reading in the Book of Mormon. In Jacob, chapters 3 and 4, he is calling them to repentance. He is comparing the Nephites to the Lamanites and how the Nephites hate the Lamanites because of their filthiness. Suddenly, I envisioned this group of Nephites saying we don't deal with the Lamanites because they are filthy, dark skinned, and don't live or believe the way we believe and live. Therefore we are justified in saying we are better than they are and it is more important that we survive than they survive.
I fast forward to many year later in the Book of Mormon. Many Lamanites are now believing just the same, trying to live just the same, and trying to live up to the blessings of our father in heaven. Were there still Nephites saying, don't buy if it was made in the city of Ammon because that would mean that someone in Zarahemla would lose a job.
What if started saying that half a billion grasshoppers and half a billion butterflies combined could make the same difference as a billion grasshoppers. Why are we not combining as God's Children to make the difference? Doesn't that make more sense?
Think about it for a while. We need to unite collectively, not divided
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