Intriguing title for a lecture, to be sure. I had thought about going, but late in the day on a Friday with the weather a rainy drizzle of cold dampness, I am having second thoughts. Fortunately, my friend and co-worker is in the same boat and calls me. We talk each other into going and soon are headed across campus with our umbrellas bobbing beneath the downpour to hear this professor from Cornell.
He is an engineer and a biologist who has worked in Africa helping people gain access to water and learn to grow their own food. He talked about Hope Seeds and the abject poverty he has encountered as he has traveled, teaching people how to build water towers and irrigation projects. Yes, they had to build electric fences to prevent elephants from destroying newly planted gardens, but his hook to get us there was only one tiny part of his message.
I am reminded once again of how blessed I am, how fortunate to own more than one set of clothes, to have shoes, sneakers and boots, to eat three full meals every day. I am reminded that I must be vigilant to support projects like Hope Seeds so that others may be blessed too. I appreciate this man for his work and for the sacrifice of time and energy, for applying his expertise so that others might benefit.
I am humbled and ashamed that I have not done more with what I have been given. I had not realized how far off course I have gotten. I have my part to do. I am getting back on board with that. This man has inspired me to try harder, to set aside the things that have so easily beset me, and to get back in the game.
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