My take on this is as follows, and I would love to hear from other students what their thoughts are.
While you are of the physical you must have balance.
Each person is like the field that has been planted with a kernel of corn.
That kernel of corn symbolizes our spirit, and the field symbolizes our body.
Both body and spirit need tended equally well in order to flourish and produce a bountiful crop.
The grape too can be symbolized as a by product of our lives and what it has produced.
You must recognize or be aware that the physical body is the house or shell that hosts the true self, which is the spirit or psychic self of that person.
This spirit needs to be fed too, but not of the physical foods. It needs the food of the Higher World energies, the Infinite from which sustains all life, the spirit. For without those energies that spirit would die just as the physical body would cease to be without its proper nourishment.
If you tend or feed both body and spirit equally and well, you’ll drink the sweetness of life.
Love and Light,
Lesley
Submitted by: Lesley Heininger on 10/17/2013
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Lesley, I think this is a wonderful interpretation of Dr. Norman’s poem, describing the corn and the grape, the needs of the physical and the needs of the spiritual within each soul. Your last line about tending to both body and spirit to “drink the sweetness of life,” sums it all up so simply and perfectly. I wrote a comment on the poem post that had some of these thoughts, but your take here is so much more complete. Thank you for sharing this with us! Love the photo you chose to go with it too.
Madilyn
Congratulations Dear One! Your posting surely proves principle, where, words are only symbols, yet when reading them, each person, according to their understanding, tunes to the Higher Concepts of those words spoken by the Moderator. Each of us are taught the true meaning that resonate within our own spiritual self and coalesce into beautiful precepts and visions that become a permanent positive force within our psychic self! This truly is His legacy. Again, thank you for proving principle and also hope to read many more examples from other students on this and the other subjects posted on this site in the future!
Dear Lesley,
I think you hit the nail on the head. We all need to find that BALANCE in feeding body and spirit in order to grow. When I was just starting into this world of the metaphysical, I went to a specialty bookstore dealing with the occult. After perusing many of the books, I approached the Owner – a wise looking old man who was sitting reading at his desk. I wanted his opinion and insight about this exciting and mysterious world of the unknown. He looked at me and said, “Well I think it can all be summed up with ‘BALANCE'”. I just stared at him, sort of feeling like Dustin Hoffman did in The Graduate when the secret of success was said to be ‘plastics’. I laugh now because he was right…. It is clear with your insights that you are drinking the sweetness of life!!….Ken
“Hast thou thought of the corn of the field?
For in the grain thereof comes all the things of life…
So while ye likewise must contain all of these things.”
Once I truly understood that all I need is within me, I was able to give of myself and strive for that inner life. What a simple analogy, yet so powerful.