Beekeeping

I can see that to raise the healthiest bees and the best honey, I can only harvest a small percentage of the honey my bees produce... bees come and go, working themselves to death, and yet we eat honey as if it is just another sweetener... every spoonful of honey represents the effort and lives of bees... yet we toss it on our cereal or in tea and never think of the lives lost creating this substance...

and yet we expect God, the supreme Creator, to value each of our lives... because we have a consciousness, we place value on ourselves... because we self-reflect, rather than mindlessly making honey, we feel we should be valued.... and how dare there be a God who might not...

Interesting that the distinction is the consciousness... the ability to reflect... how many humans are living unexamined lives? How many live as if the only importance is the herd mentality of the most recent tv shows, the moments of self-gratification drinking booze or smoking herb, womanizing, dating, shopping or eating our favorite foods? Never caring nor considering that this mindless activity might have no value to the Divine?

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