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MONETIZE!

MONETIZE!!

MONETIZE!!!

By Chioma Phillips

can’t tell you how many times, on a gift or a talent that you found chemical farming can affect the
over the years, I have heard inside you and perhaps only pushed genetic information of an individual
the term monetize, concerning to refine? Even if you worked at and their children, up to the 4th
I one’s gifts, talents, connec- something, you got the desire and generation. This includes their
tions or skills. Especially lately in heart from it from somewhere fertility and that of their babies. Yet,
these days of what WHO called a deeper than you can imagine. Do when you try to explain the enor-
pandemic. You have to monetize you know the value of the One mity of this crisis to people they tell
that. Someone needed help with a Who put it in you? Do you under- you, “But farmers have to make
project and three or so people said, stand the value that He places on money!” People are seeing their
I can help at a professional fee. it? What its true purpose in you health adversely affected from the
even is? food they consume... but farmers
Someone else was seeking mentors have to make money. They even
online to know how to cash in on When only one person knows say that organic food is not com-
a gift that they have... because you how to make something and then mercially viable to produce or sell
have to make money. Eish, money someone asks to be taught that skill, – which is a lie, just ask the growing
has grabbed some unwitting souls. the monetize philosophy demands numbers of organic farmers. I bet
So much so that when I see you, that the owner of the skill profit off the chemical farmers never thought
you say hello and ask me for help this knowledge by exacting a cash that they would be sacrificing the
and the first thing out of my mouth payment or that something of great health and well-being of the present
is “It will cost you.” Not, “Who is value is accorded to them in return. and future generations up to the
this person? What help do they When you love money and you 4th generation of people (that’s
need? How does my purpose in seek it with all you can, it makes billions of people) all for the sake
life feed into theirs? What support you predictable and this is why that of money.
does God desire I offer them and is a challenge... because that is the
how?” Nooooo. It’s the cash con- instrument of control that will be It’s like a government that steals
versation that rules the day and we turned against you to conform you money that was intended to help
don’t realize it, but we’re so much to something you never thought you tens or hundreds of millions of peo-
worse off for it than we understand. would agree to in your life. ple, just so two or three people can
Cash?! The lowest form of human Recently, we talked to someone get rich, while those millions suffer
interaction is what you want to put who explained that the effects of or even die because of this choice.

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