So God Made a Farmer
And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!
God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and
work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to
town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God
made a farmer!
I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf,
yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs,
tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch
until his wife is done feeding and visiting
with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and
mean it. So, God made a farmer!
God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse
with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and
shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish
his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then,
pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours. So, God
made a farmer!
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed
to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and
race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So,
God made a farmer!
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave
bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the
pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend
the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer!
It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut
corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc
and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to
replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard
days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family
together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then
sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to
spend his life "doing what dad does". So,
God made a farmer!
By Paul Harvey
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