But I wrote on my folder (the bottle has been suspended due to excess smudging and lack of draw-ability): This is more than resources. We Grow®.
The first was about how this resource packet and everything else that goes along with it is not just people getting help with jobs, children, food, homes, etc., we are also trying to bring Jesus in everything we do. I realize that God is a resource EVERY PERSON should have, and it is my job to give that to as many souls as possible.
But now...getting to We Grow®. We watched the documentary, Fresh, and I watched it before during Spring Break...and my mind wandered. So basically, the industrial food system is not only corrupt but cruel.
But it made me realize our problem is that we WANT everything. Do we need it? NO. We need to be fed, sure-- and eat well-- yes; but do we need to have out of season fruits when it clearly needs to be flown in from other countries to be sold? And why for the love of gravy (I love gravy) do we need to make so much corn, just so that it is sold back to subsidiaries that make that excess corn into chemicals, preservatives and feed for animals that NATURALLY don't eat it?!
We are hating ourselves and it is clearly shown in our food, because we think we are not worth proper food that has been raised healthy and with love and care. We belittle that and then we consume food that not only ruins our bodies but it ruins the natural ecosystem that NEVER creates pigs to live 20,000 at a time in a small cylinder!
Now I love meats. And at one point, I told myself: I'm going to fight this by being vegetarian...or vegan...or just breathing air...or just dying because I can't stop this. Or moving to an island and growing my own food, because no one else wants America's GMO filled foods.... BUT then I closed my eyes (not really...just glazed over) during this film, and I imagined my wonderful supermarket: We Grow®.
I would not call it "Princy's", because that is self serving. I want it to mean that we grown both physically with good food, relationally with good company, and systematically with supporting our community, local farmers and companies. But I also want to grow spiritual, so we would be closed on Sundays EXCEPT for a Community Family Dinner we'd host as a store Sunday evenings, where people dance, laugh, and just enjoy each other's presence and the presence of God!
I mean this is just a dream I see that ANYONE can do, and perhaps by starting I could talk to the people that bring the Organic and Local Foods Fair to Hofstra for one week during the beginning of the semester. I never met them or talked to them...come to think of it, I never bought from them either--- but if I could learn about the local and organic foods that both help the local family community and economy, as well as help my body be filled with nutritious and wholesome food...why not?!
So, tonight, I pray that these dreams do not disappear. These hopes will not die with a movie or emotion. I want us to bring America back from the excess and realize all we need is love to make the world a better place. Love and knowledge truly makes the world go round, and God can provide the best of both!
Thank You & Goodnight (and invitations to perhaps the future opening of We Grow®),
Princy
P.S. Base salary would be about $15, we would be dressing casually but professionally--- and every shipment of food would come with a photo of the families that supplied your delicious treats! Big dreams start with big hearts (...and big stomachs too) :)
P.S.S. I am too lazy to look up GIFs (SORRYYYY)...but here you go:
Fresh.
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