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PEAK disclosure, click for a peak
Feels like Sunday, yet it is Monday, Thanksgiving, Canada’s Thanksgiving Day.
As I travel across Northern Ontario this morning I have had lots of time for reflection, and am grateful, thankful for all in my life. Driving through rain and snow, seeing the moon set, the sun rise and feel the coolness of the winter winds that are making their way across these lands. Listening to Joel Salitan speak about sustainable abundance , you get a lot of ideas. With brother John driving I am now able to catchup on my blogging. Roads are pretty good, dry now for the most part. Just had a delicious cheese bagel with sausage paddy, over hard egg with a slice of Swiss cheese, it was rather tasty. Washed down with a cup of Robins coffee. We ran out of bottled water, started the journey with a case from Walmart, and we drank the last one last night. Have not had a chance to visit a store to replenish, so I thought I would buy a couple bottles to hold us over.
Well what a surprise , pricing was premium for sure. $2.40 plus tax x two = $5.42 , now it’s a special beverage , spring water from Filane’s Spring Water, an oversized bottle 501 ml , so a little extra, usually you only get 500 ml. Www.filanes.com The Water comes from a 166 foot well in Screiber, Ontario located in Northern Ontario, amongst the Pre-Cambrian Shield.
There is a number of dissolved mineral salts. I recognize some of them.
Na sodium
Ca Calcium
Mg Magnesium
Zn Zinc
K Potassium
Cu Cooper
The others
HCO3
CI
SO4
N
F
Pb
As
Now As is .002 PPM, parts per million
Vs HCO3 48.2 Parts Per Million
Interesting business, spring water from a deep well. Maybe we should be bottling that good filter water at brother Luke’s well, we talked about the delicious water there being sold before.
People pay a lot for water, this is a perfect example.
It is good for you, Water is important, we need it in our bodies to live well. The minerals in the beverage help replenish the body and are needed by us. So beverages that have nutritional value are good to bring to the market place.
A little extra in the bottle, bakers dozen, going the extra mile. 1 ml maybe pushing the mile with that one.
Marketing, distribution, production, handling, retail profit margins, refrigeration, refreshment , a cool idea, gets your attention, ( now I didn’t have a choice, it was all they had available) perhaps if I had a chance I might have reached for the bottle out of curiosity) and simply just being there are key components to this making a sale .
Did you know that we pay more for water than gas ? Let’s take this example and do the math.
501ml @ 2.40 plus hst ( harmonized sales tax) 13% ( 5 to Federal and 8 to Ontario government) =
$5.41 per litre, compared to gas at $1.20 per litre, it’s an interesting observation. Wholesale at Walmart say the cheap stuff at $4 a case = 47 cents a litre. If your paying a dollar for a 500 ml bottle, that’s $2 a litre. Yes you are paying more for water than you are gas, sometimes huge premiums. One of the price points for Nature’s Energy Water is $3 per 250 ml, similar to Red Bull retail value.
Compare it to a Tim Hortons Medium coffee, I paid 1.76 plus tax , thinking it’s about 12 ounces , so that works out to $5.60 per litre
Bottom line, beverages cost more than gas or diesel even those in the far north were there is no internet service.
Coffee, Water , Gas, Diesel = Today’s Fuel , do the math , gas is pretty reasonable from this perspective. My advice, drink your own water and consider Nature’s Energy Water next time it is available, a premium beverage, that is Simply Refreshing ! Supporting fair trade, Canada’s true blue, green national beverage, since the eve of time, an ancient hydrator filtered by nature.
As the lady at Frantz Restaurant said , perhaps it’s time to get your water business going bigger, people are ready to consume beverages that are better for them.
Www.NaturesEnergyWater.com
October 14, 2019
The Power to Edify
“Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.” (2 Corinthians 13:10)
The Greek word oikodomos (translated as “edification”) pictures the building of a house. We still use the word edifice to describe a structure of some importance. Paul specifically said he had the “power” to edify and later called himself a “wise masterbuilder,” an architekton, who laid the foundation on which we would later build (1 Corinthians 3:10).
When Jesus used oikodomos to depict those who might build their house on a rock (His Word) or the sand (the ideas of men), He was painting a picture of how we should edify each other (Luke 6:48-49). The various gifts of leadership are to be used to “perfect” the saints in the work of ministry (Ephesians 4:11-12), using the living “stones” that will build the “spiritual house” of God (1 Peter 2:5).
And like any good builder, the Christian carpenter has tools of the trade to assist the process. There are “things which make for peace” that must be employed (Romans 14:19). Most certainly “charity” is a major tool (1 Corinthians 8:1), along with good communication that does not “corrupt” the building work (Ephesians 4:29).
Since “all things” are to be done so that the church is edified (1 Corinthians 14:26), it surely follows that “fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions” are not helpful (1 Timothy 1:4). Effective communication demands that those with whom we are speaking understand what is said, hence a mysterious “tongue” does not publicly edify like prophecy does (1 Corinthians 14:2-4).
An “edified” church walks “in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 9:31). HMM III
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