Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A New Mission

Appleseed.

I may be insane but that doesn't change the truth. Our civilization has developed to a point where all the knowledge of the world is at our fingertips. Now what?

I have been given a mission to feed the hungry. A seemingly impossible task with my 6-8 billion neighbors but over the course of my life, I have learned that nothing is ever truly as it seems and anything is possible.

Anything. Like building an ark in the desert. The mission is the ark. The ark is a garden. The garden is the mission of my life now, to feed the world. The garden is really just a seed. A seed I hope to plant around the world.

This seed is my journey of faith and purpose for being. I was created in much the same way a farmer plants a seed, by human hands and an act of love. I grew through the loving embrace and support of family, until I emerged a young man with an idealistic heart, facing the hard truth of the world.

Work. The truth of scarcity and the need to work the thorns and earth for subsistence but we have come along way in our civilization. We have learned much and developed ways to live and provide for ourselves. That knowledge creatively applied can produce an abundance of food in natural gardens. If that idea and knowledge passes, the garden can take over the world, like a healthy vine that plants its roots deep.

I have learned a way to produce 1 Million lbs of food on 3 acres of land. The research that gets me there and the knowledge I gain, will one day take me to Africa where the world's deepest hunger cries out to be fed. I will feed them fruits, vegetables, fish and the language of truth and of love.

I will be recording this adventure to share with the world to inspire them to create a beautiful new 21st Century.

James' Prayer

The Lord is good to me; so, I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need, the Sun, Rain and the AppleSeed