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Happy 4th of July-So God Made a Farmer

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:00:33 CDT

Happy 4th of July-So God Made a Farmer Happy Independence Day! As we celebrate America with our friends and Family Lets reflect on those who have given the ultimate sacrifice to our Nation, and also those that put food on our plates every day.

SO.     GOD      MADE      A      FARMER

by: Paul Harvey

And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God Made A Farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, 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 arms strong enough to rustle a calf and gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs,tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon and mean it." So God Made A Farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, "maybe next year." I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out of haywire, feed sacks, and shoe scrap and who during planting time and harvest season, will finish his 40 hour week by Tuesday noon and then, pain'n from tractor back, put in another 72 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 n mid-field and race to help when he sees first smoke from a neighbors place. So God Made A Farmer.

God said, " I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark." It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replinish the self- feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five mile drive to church."

"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does." So God Made A farmer.

Paul Harvey's speech from 1978 National Future Farmers of America convention.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the GREATEST NATION on Earth — AMERICA

Enjoy those real Beef Burgers, Hot Dogs, Steakd and Ribs as you celebrate AMERICA's Birthday. Oh, don't forget the fireworks, be safe.

Borrowed from the "I AM AG" facebook page..


   

 

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