I am part of many groups, all are my favorites. Today's thought comes from a group of Christian men, we are coaches in different aspects. We call ourselves, "The Bench" - we are part of Christiaan Coaches Network International (CCNI) (https://christiancoaches.com/) Our topic of discussion was the semiannual conversation of what resources are currently influencing us? I will probably share some thoughts from this discussion over the next few weeks. (that's a veiled accountability statement trying to say I want to be better at post discussion content here.) one of the guys shared his new interest in Ben Sasse, a man who knows he's dying and wants to share some of his insights with others... here's a link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CFo6-6BN9k. I encourage you to look it up. My hope for this page is to give a snippet of information that might spark a conversation. I've give the snippet, and now, I'd like to hear your thoughts... mine are included in the comments.

TL;DR 2 sentence version global soil food and water stats are critical on a doomsday level by 2025! Singing frogs farms model hits all relevant triple bottom line accounting markers as a highly proven, profitable and super healthy solution so spread the word and let’s try to shift the drift from extreme global crisis to extreme global abundance!! Tip of the iceburg yet crux of the matter version You can’t give what you don’t have. Help yourself, help the world. Step into your power, share the good news!! Okay, here is the super “save the world” side quest, and I’m calling it a side quest because we’re all needing to get our lives on track to be able to do anything in the first place! It’s just THE SUPER SIDE QUEST!! Cause we gotta act fast! Here’s some motivation to step into your power and get in the game NOW!! “By 2050 under business-as-usual: 90–95% of Earth’s land at risk of degradation; 4.8–5.7 billion people facing severe water scarcity.” Don’t Look Up — that scene where the scientists see the meteor coming and everyone treats them like conspiracy nuts? Yeah… I’m kinda feeling that energy right now. I’ve been digging into the hard numbers on soil, water, food systems, homelessness, incarceration, and what actually works to fix them. The data is brutal, but there are proven models that flip the script on multiple crises at once. The Global Wound (Soil, Water, Food) - We lose 36 billion tons of topsoil annually. - Agriculture uses 70% of global freshwater withdrawals, with 30–50% wasted due to degraded soil. - 1.3 billion tons of food wasted yearly (33% of production) while ~1 billion people face overt hunger and 3 billion suffer “hidden hunger” (nutrient deficiency despite calories). - By 2050 under business-as-usual: 90–95% of Earth’s land at risk of degradation; 4.8–5.7 billion people facing severe water scarcity. Conventional farming often makes only $100–$4,000/acre (sometimes subsidized). Really good organic tops out around $10k–$15k/acre in the best cases.

Building your empire/kingdom - Water, cotton, regenerative ag, and hemp + mental health/flow/neuroscience! Ever wanted a near infinite creative/profit ceiling low entry scalable business that’s awesome and can even help you build your own disaster proof kingdom ad infinitum? Copy/paste this into speechify or your favorite AI if you don’t want to read it. Plug this into an AI or read it all...it's nutty and possible and super cool sounding! :D Dude, your math is scary accurate. If you want to melt your brother’s brain with hard numbers, this is exactly how you lay it out. Since you wanted this split into clean, copy-pasteable parts for him, let’s drop **Part 1: The Macro Reality (Water, Cotton, and Subsidies)** right here. ## Part 1: The Macro Reality (Water vs. Industrial Cotton) When you look at the global supply chain, the allocation of our planet's most precious resource—water—is completely upside down. Here is the direct math on what it takes to hydrate humanity versus what we pour into industrial textiles. ### 1. The Mind-Blowing Tap Water Math If you look at the retail cost of clean municipal tap water in the US, it averages out to about a **half-penny ($0.005) per gallon**. * **The Daily Human Need:** 8 billion people drinking 8 glasses of water a day is roughly 4 billion gallons of water per day. * **The Annual Total:** Over a full year, that is **1.46 trillion gallons** of water. * **The Cost:** At a half-penny per gallon, the cost to supply the entire human race with baseline drinking water for a year is **$7.3 Billion**. Divided across 8 billion people, that is just **91 cents per person, per year** to keep every human on Earth hydrated. ### 2. The Cotton Industry's Footprint Industrial cotton is incredibly resource-heavy. Globally, the cotton industry consumes roughly **256 billion cubic meters** of water per year. That translates to an astronomical **67.6 trillion gallons** of water annually. * **The 5% Calculation:** Your math is spot on. If we took just **5%** of the water used by the global cotton industry (which equals about 3.38 trillion gallons), we would have more than *double* the 1.46 trillion gallons needed to hydrate every man, woman, and child on Earth for an entire year.

When the thought hit me, it didn't sound so much like Dr Seuss wrote it... I feel like Ephesians 2:8,9,and 10 describe the concept so well, I don't have to do anything but receive God's gift of identity. And, then, from that gift, I receive salvation and a purpose... But when I get it backwards and think my WHO (identity) comes from what I DO (role), it seems to make people bristle a bit and they are repulsed from the intent of drawing them closer to God. How do you help people (Ministers especially) operate in their God given identity, rather than find their identity in their current role?

I was reading Exodus 17 this morning... It struck me hard... like a 2x4 to the head hard (or is it a 2x4 to the hard head?). it was quick.... right there in verse 2; ...the people quarreled and said, 'give us water to drink'... Perhaps God forgot about them in the desert once He delivered them. Perhaps the patterns of slavery were still fresh in their mindsets. Perhaps they forgot God just delivered them from their Egyptian masters in a miraculous way. Perhaps they forgot the wonder of walking through the Red Sea; seeing the underwater world while they were on dry land. Perhaps they forgot... >insert 2x4< Perhaps I forgot. I was praying this week for all the things I think God forgot about.... our house, my health, the ministry, our finances, the move, the plans, the rest. I know so many stories, in the Bible and from Godly mentors of how God provided just what was needed at the right time. God provided what He knew they needed, or in the case of the people in this story, He removed their need for water. I am reminded of the Samaritan woman at the well... she thought she needed water, Jesus gave her living water... Would you join with me today in seeking what God has given rather than the perceived need? Will you share of a time when you had a perceived need and God provided something different?