Northern Farmer

Today something special happened around here. It rained! What’s so special about that? This is the first time in three years it rained in May around here! This gives me hope beyond hope that the major drought is busting! A gentle rain hour after hour, a calf was born this afternoon in the rain near our house and I ain’t lifting a finger to help it, because its doing just fine out there in the rain. This is nothing like the snow we had a couple weeks ago! And as I write I see the wind has switched to the north west and that means that this system will be blowing out of here. Plus a nice rain on newly planted oats and hay sure doesn’t hurt matters either.
On the computer I’ve been busy writing and setting stuff up. Wrote about humanism over Healing Waters way, something that really gets me going to say the least! Wrote about the difference in Christianity from years gone by compared to today, and truthfully there’s no comparison. Its being lost today. We have a society that trusts the government in all things, depending on it for everything. I just sit here and ponder this on this rainy evening. How as a society we’ve lost it. There is no freedom and almost every day I do things that are illegal. Not bragging, just stating fact. Very little of reality is covered on this blog when it comes to country life because almost everything a farmer does, especially a small family farmer turns out to be illegal. Not morally illegal, its just that a dependent society of lemmings has turned it into this. I was thinking about the difference between the founding fathers of this country and the government today and I can honestly say when the revolutionary war was started they had way less regulation and taxation then we have today. But they were following Biblical principles when they set this country up. Today they make it illegal to even mention Jesus Christ in public.
What once were very smart men that built this country has changed into the opposite. Years ago leaders were well versed in many aspects of life but now in this dying industrial culture people have lost the art of being well rounded. Years ago folks knew how to do multitudes of things, now the opposite is true. The industrial culture has produced generations of helpless, stupid people. I won’t apologize for that either because what’s considered an expert today is nothing compared to an expert years ago. Take for example, years ago the founding fathers were for the most part involved with agriculture. In order to be successful one had to know many area’s of expertise, plus education was education, unlike now where its a joke in comparison. And in this upside down, failing culture, experts only know a few things and basically have a poor education regardless of what they were trained for. There’s no more biblical base to any education except for rare colleges. Basically a person is trained for a very narrow field in which they can be a tight fitting cog in the system. Anything beyond their field of expertise is basically unknown to them. They get trained in pure humanism by the culture and Christianity becomes a social thing if that. Cheap fire insurance for many. No commitment, no nothing. Gone are the days of God fearing folks that would take it upon themselves to lead this country. Education is almost dead in America, from kindergarten to college. Parents take pride in the field that their child is choosing to fit themselves into and make sure they get trained in to becoming a mindless lemming in society. All is well for our corporate government.
But in diversified farming a strange thing happens. Old ways are still taught in a certain way. A person has to be a scientist, a meteorologist, a mechanic, a veterinarian, an accountant, a salesman, a lawyer, and the list goes on and on. Modern ag is trying, successfully to change farmers into a mindless cog, just fit to do the work and provide the land and shoulder the debt. But when families go back to the Christian ways, and I’m not talking this modern church garbage which is no different than the sick society that we live in, I’m talking about people that follow Jesus Christ as in my Healing Waters post yesterday, one starts to regain the terrible loss that society has stolen from what should be leaders and Goldy men and women.
Time will tell, but I believe one has to take back this country one household at a time and tell the modern education system, the modern churches and much of government regulation to shove it where the sun don’t shine. And as this strengthens to send out folks to help the spread of what was very nearly lost to humanism in society and the church. Only then will there be a difference. I read about the farms in days gone by and its very impressive. Christian families farming very successfully. Many times this is not covered but much of the farms in years gone by were good sized and well run by very educated men. Now it seems like farmers are classified as hicks. Society has tore apart common sense and people that are trained in only one field receive the most money and if they’d get a flat tire on the way home with their Mercedes they wouldn’t have the brains to change the tire. Thus we have leaders who have no idea about anything in life except the very little notch they were trained to fill. What a difference a few generations makes.
Instead of the man of faith coming home from some civic duty and checking his animals and fields and gardens, the modern man despises that and only looks for ways to improve his money supply by any means possible. He has no idea where his food comes from and could care less about families and people being destroyed to fill his lusts. The early leaders of this country feared God and their actions proved it. They stood up for Biblical principals and through blood and faith founded a country that depended on God. That country is all but gone now, but a remnant remains and more and more are being touched by God daily, awakening to the fact. These are the hope for the future. Sounds silly, right, in this day and age to talk like this. Well, think about it, think about it good and well.

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