{"id":9648,"date":"2019-03-11T05:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2019-03-11T05:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:18:09","slug":"wheat-is-more-than-a-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=9648","title":{"rendered":"Wheat is More Than a Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donna Wheat. Donna Buckwheat. Donna Oats & Wheat. Donna Corn Wheat. Donna Wheaties. Those were names I was called back-in-my-school-days. Having the last name \u201cWheat\u201d made for much entertainment for my friends. At least no one ever asked, \u201cHow do you spell it?\u201d But, then came my forever boyfriend who had the last name \u201cWuerch\u201d and to this day I hear \u201cHow do you pronounce that? How do you spell that?\u201d

The name, \u201cWheat\u201d has so much more meaning than it simply being my maiden name. It contains legacy and promise and hope. Not only was I blessed to be born into the Wheat Family which carries a legacy of honorable, faith-filled and devoted followers of Christ, but the name continues to impact this world. In particular, my three nephews, the sons of my brother and his wife who carry the Gospel message as pastors\/ministers here in Texas. The \u201cWheat\u201d crop is top quality and it keeps pollinating and producing other faithful and devoted followers of Christ.
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God sincerely amuses me with His subtle way of giving me daily inspiration for my posts. As I was scrolling through my timeline yesterday, I was taken with this beautiful photo of a wheat field. The story that accompanied it was this:

\u201cThere was a farmer who grew excellent quality wheat and every season he won the award for the best grown in his county. One year a reporter from the local newspaper interviewed the farmer and learned that each Spring the man shared his seed with his neighbors so that they too could plant it in their fields.

The reporter asked: \u201cHow can you afford to share your best wheat seed with your neighbors when they are entering their crops in the competition with yours?”

\u201cThat’s very simple,\u201d the farmer explained. “The wind picks up pollen from the developing wheat and carries it from field<\/g> to field. If my neighbors grow inferior wheat, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of all the wheat, including mine. If I am to grow good wheat, I must help my neighbors grow good wheat.\u201d

The reporter realized how the farmer’s explanation also applied to peoples’ lives in the most fundamental way. Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each, is bound up with the welfare of all.\u201d

And, I wholeheartedly agree. We are blessed to be a blessing. When we share our lives, our hearts, our encouragement, our sensitivity, our honesty and integrity with others, their lives WILL be enriched and their \u201ccrops\u201d will help heal the lives that they encounter.

2 Corinthians 9:10 \u201cHe who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.\u201d
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Donna Wheat. Donna Buckwheat. Donna Oats & Wheat. Donna Corn Wheat. Donna Wheaties. Those were names I was called back-in-my-school-days. Having the last name \u201cWheat\u201d made for much entertainment for my friends. At least no one ever asked, \u201cHow do you spell it?\u201d But, then came my forever boyfriend who had the last name \u201cWuerch\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12567,12566],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seedtime","category-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}