10 LESSONS ONE CAN LEARN FROM THE HEN

Patiently, the hen sits on her eggs to hatch her chicks.

1. Good planning: She first lays enough eggs before sitting on them.

2. Discipline: When she starts sitting on her eggs, she minimizes movements.

3. Sacrifice and self-denial: She physically loses weight while sitting on her eggs due to decreased feeding.

4. Indiscrimination and generosity: She can’t sit on eggs from another hen.

5. Faith, hope, and courage: She sits on her eggs for 21 days, patiently waiting; even if they do not hatch, she will lay eggs again.

6. Sensitive and discerning: She detects unfertilized eggs and rolls them out.

7. Wisdom, consciousness, and realism: She abandons the rotten eggs and starts caring for the hatched chicks, even if it’s only one.

8. Protective love: No one touches her chicks.

9. Unity of purpose: She gathers all her chicks together.

10. Mentorship: She can’t abandon her chicks before they mature.

Even the greatest teacher, Jesus, led by the Holy Spirit, taught from the hen. ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen.’ Luke 13:34.

Never give up your divine dream. Be blessed.

STAYING HEALTHY: THE DANGERS OF EATING OUT

Eating at home is healthier than eating out.

If you want to eat better and stay healthy, eat at home. Eating out can eventually take its toll. Here’s how: diners have no control over many aspects of the food they are about to consume. 


For starters, the menu may not be accurate; for example, the menu may say wild-caught salmon, while it was really farm-raised salmon, where conditions are known to be less than ideal for raising fish. 

Or, it could be worse… where the salmon is cloned. Costco and many other major retailers have refused to carry cloned salmon.

Poultry and eggs may be from chickens jammed into crowded pen conditions instead of being free-range chickens. 

The chickens may be raised in the US but shipped to China for processing, where the US has little control over sanitary conditions. You wouldn’t think it makes economic sense to ship chicken back and forth across the Pacific Ocean, but it does.

Beef may be from suppliers outside the US, where antibiotics and hormones are routinely used to produce faster-growing and fatter beef.  By the way, the US Congress recently passed a law to allow suppliers to remove the country of origin label (COOL) from beef and pork meats.

Also, China plans on producing hundreds of thousands of cloned beef to make up for food shortages. How will American consumers respond if and when presented with cloned beef?