Good things take time. They are worth persevering for. Cultivating healthy relationships, creating nourishing and delicious meals, building quality possessions, growing successful and sustainable businesses and non-profits, personal reflection and development...anything worth keeping takes courage, patience and perseverance.
We are accustomed to getting what we want when we want it, which usually is right now. For example, think of the contrast between grabbing fast food on the run compared to what is involved in creating a family or community dinner...
The food needs to be grown on land that has been chosen and taken care of well, soil that has been prepared. The seeds collected from healthy plants in a past season and stored well to maintain the life inside. The growing plants need to be nourished and watered appropriately, possibly removing competing plants and protecting them from predators. At just the right time, the fruits of the labor carefully harvested, transported, selected and obtained by the cook...who will then begin to creatively put them together with other quality ingredients (often undergoing even extensive processes) into a delicious and nourishing meal. Not to mention the organizing the people, cleaning the area, setting the table, cultivating community around the table etc...Or you could just drive through McDonald's alone and eat on the road.
The community dinner has many benefits, but fast food is much quicker and easier. Good things take time, work, risk and perseverance.
We are accustomed to getting what we want when we want it, which usually is right now. For example, think of the contrast between grabbing fast food on the run compared to what is involved in creating a family or community dinner...
The food needs to be grown on land that has been chosen and taken care of well, soil that has been prepared. The seeds collected from healthy plants in a past season and stored well to maintain the life inside. The growing plants need to be nourished and watered appropriately, possibly removing competing plants and protecting them from predators. At just the right time, the fruits of the labor carefully harvested, transported, selected and obtained by the cook...who will then begin to creatively put them together with other quality ingredients (often undergoing even extensive processes) into a delicious and nourishing meal. Not to mention the organizing the people, cleaning the area, setting the table, cultivating community around the table etc...Or you could just drive through McDonald's alone and eat on the road.
The community dinner has many benefits, but fast food is much quicker and easier. Good things take time, work, risk and perseverance.