A great quote by George Washington Carver

[i]The spiritual life is something that people worry about when they are so busy with something else they think they ought to be spiritual. Spiritual life is guilt. Up here in the woods is seen the New Testament: that is to say, the wind comes through the trees and you breathe it.[/i]

(Thomas Merton, from "Day of a Stranger")

He had an amazing life. He went before Congress to present ALL of his commercial ideas for the use of the (then), supposedly useless peanut. He discovered that tobacco plantings, which depleted nitrogen from the soil, were restored with nitrogen by growing a crop of peanuts!!! He was given ONE hour to present his ideas for the peanut to Congress, and they ended up begging him to stay. He was there for FIVE hours!!!

He discovered all of this by PRAYING!!!! He simply sat there, and said, "God, WHY did you make the peanut?" And then focused and proceeded relentlessly, through scientific method, to find EVERY use for the peanut.

The ONLY thing he didn't invent was peanut butter!