Lessons from the Puritans

I just came in from trying to help one 55 year old man who had not gotten his life together yet;
Was approached by a 40 year old woman who wanted help getting back home from her drunk boyfriend in a WM parking lot, where I was helping get food for a 28 year old male on disability for seizures , married , no job, no car, no home, just a motel room.
That same week had helped a 36 year old ex-navy submarine cook, basketball player;
and a 32 year old married felon with two children and a broken car. Lot's of needy people out there. Many of them need to learn a few lessons that are not taught much in the USA anymore.

What many down and out need to know.

1. Imitate and learn from the Puritans of early America. Work ethic, diligence, perserverance.

2. Put in the long hours during harvest season. Work two jobs while you're building up.

3. Learn from those who share rent, communal cooking, transportation and other expenses.

Quit being too proud to share and coordinate with other people like yourself who are trying to catch up so they can draw even and then have an opportunity to get ahead.

Single mom's and families with not enough time: Time share with your neighbors on meals and cooking. See what happens when you put together three or four families to share meal preparation during the week.

Three or four days a week of not having to cook for yourself
but still having a great meal, wouldn't that be helpful for your time to do things you need to get done, spend time with the children.

The immigrants come here, work two jobs, share apartment with 10 people or more, pool their money to accomplish good things. Especially they share not only the expenses, but also the time and labor of meal preparation.

You don't have to just share help with people living in your apartment. Form a body of people in your neighborhood who would appreciate shared responsibilities on cooking a good meal for supper. One person can cook for one, two, four, or ten. My grandmother cooked for thirteen. All it takes is co-operation. Community! Community living. Community cooking. Shared responsibilities can give huge benefits in time and quality of meals, and in friendships.

Too many USA born needy are too proud to follow the team-work pattern. They want to start off in their own private apartment, with their own mustang, and put a $400 stereo in it, and buy a $1,000 home entertainment system, and work 8-5 then come home watch tv and drink beer. That's not getting the job done.

Work and continue working until you have the summer crops put into the barn for cold winter. Build a cushion!

Remember the settlers who died of starvation during the winter because they wanted to relax and go swimming in the stream during the summer.

Choose your ground wisely. Bust the rocks. Cut the trees. Clear the brush. Plow your field. Plant your seeds.
Study parable of the sower.

This idea of everybody has the right to sit down and watch tv and still expect to play catch-up in life is a wrong idea causing much pain and suffering in America.

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