Say Thank you Granny

so where did this all come from?

As they all go, the parents say…"say Thank You Granny" and they all dutifully do.  This is good, it teaches all of us to say "thank you" from very young.  BUT… here is the secret which all children and all Grannies know…. The fact of the fun doesn't come from anyone, neither the child or the grandmother, it comes from the whole thing, the sun and the space and the water and the well-being which everyone is enjoying, it all comes from the same place.  The food which passes from the grandmother cook, the mother feeding, the child eating has all come from somewhere else and that somewhere else isn't Tesco or even the garden which has produced the tomatoes and the raspberries.  Those fruits are the product, the picker, the preparer and the eater are just part of the receiving process.  So, who did hang the apples on the trees, who made the raspberries go red, who made the wheat which goes into the Cheerios, who made the hen lay the eggs?  Let me tell you that it isn't Tesco!!!
But it is good to say thank you to somebody along the way who has been part of the process even if the Granny knows that all she did was to receive the goods she passed on to you.  And she has to remember to say thank you to that which lies behind it all and to try to pass on the idea of the real provider.  The idea is to realise that there is a good reason to learn about thanks but then the fun comes when you examine who it is you are really thanking, and just how far back those thanks go and let me tell you again that it certainly isn't Tesco!!!