Northern Farmer

Today I didn’t have all to much time for thinking or dwelling on very much, was out in the fields picking rocks thee old fashioned way, with a crew of kids and everything was done by hand, (and foot). Picked a couple oats fields and I’d say they were done good! Lucked out, had a super crew and then things can really happen! Windier than heck here today though and right now the wind is roaring outside, thus I’m inside! All tired out anyhow so I have an excuse for sure! Nothing like farm work to make a person tired beyond their wildest dreams!
This year the home building crews that have been over running this area the last few years are yet to be seen, and truthfully, I hope I never see them again in my lifetime, and the way things are going I figure it might just work out that way. But a funny thing this year is the farm equipment around the area. I figure that allot of farmers want to make poster boy on some modern farm publication around here! I never seen such big, (new), equipment in the fields around here. And I shake my head and wonder. Are these farmers buying into the lie that better times are coming and already are appearing? Looks like it to me. And mark my word, in a very few short years there’s going to be a crash and burn in the ag sector. But I see where the optimism comes from. When a person listens to ag radio or reads the lying magazines the industrial ag machine is going over board telling farmers that the day is coming where they’re going to be in high cotton! But they down play the price of inputs in the equation. Mind manipulating is all it is and so many farmers are “dumb” enough to buy into the lie! But as with all lies, there will be a day of reckoning and it will come much sooner than many folks think! Remember, a very few short years ago, very few, they said the housing boom was going to go on forever! And now look, and we haven’t seen the tip of the iceberg yet. They say with anything in the economy that it’ll go forever and happy days are just around the corner, but I beg to differ. Folks, in reality there’s very little left.
So I look around, maybe I’ll be durn near the joke of the area the way we farm at the rate its going. But I really don’t care. Because I know the financial status of so many of these folks that have all this big equipment, and they’d have to get a mortgage just to build an outhouse. I also know that all that equipment is heavily in hock, at a price I can barely imagine. And the funny thing is, we farm more than many of them and get by just fine with what we have. I kid you not, there’s some folks within a mile of my house that farm between 60 and a 100 acres and have huge four wheel drive tractors and equipment that can barely be turned around in the field its so big. They whiz out in the field and in a few minutes are done while I spend the whole day in a twenty five acre field. But, hey, there’s not a nickel’s worth of debt riding on the back of this old fashioned farmer! And there won’t be either! I’ll be here when they all crash and burn, and if that is taken as a smart alack comment, so be it. But its more than likely true! They come up to me all proud and happy saying that they’re putting in Roundup beans, and I smile and am really happy that Monsanto will be making almost all the money off another farm. Because Hey, don’t they deserve it?!
Oh well, who cares I guess. Here’s a little something I came across the other day and it caught my eye. “In 1960, three silver dimes would easily buy a gallon of gasoline. In April of 2008, the melt value of a 1960 dime was worth $1.37. Therefore, you could still buy a gallon of gasoline with three 1960 dimes. Gold, silver and gasoline have NOT really increased in value. They just appear to have increased in value because the dollar is only worth a fraction of what it is supposed to be worth.” Hmmm, not really news to those that don’t totally get down on their knees and worship the economy like so many do nowadays, but this is such a simple explanation of reality that I had to put it on here. True money still has the identical buying power as it did many decades ago, nothing has changed at all. It’s just that the public has been snuckered and thinks everything is totally normal now and everything is OK. Well, it definitely is not! AND its going to get allot worse, allot. So, if a person doesn’t have nice amounts of gold or silver buried in their back yard, (because to be truthful I don’t trust where you get a slip of paper saying that you own gold or silver), what is the most stable thing a person can own? Land, as far as I’m concerned! But not so much as an investment, but for a life! Because the land can produce life as long as a person lives and tends it. Nothing, and I mean nothing else does! You can’t eat gold or silver, but land can give you food, fuel and a multitude of basics and keep a family abundantly supplied. Of course that involves another matter that society looks down upon very much so nowadays and that’s called good old fashioned work! But work is good for the soul and solves a multitude of health problems in itself. Simple. You know, if the day comes and this computer can’t be justified, well, out she goes, simple as that. So many other things have already got the boot from this house that its amazing. And believe me, this family was not current on all the new trends that society considers normal.
Oh Lord, I write and sometimes wonder why. Very few care at all. But some do I guess and that keeps it going. I really have a vision for things to come and its so opposite of the world view that its scary to many. Can the Lord resurrect His church? I believe He can and will. Will society ever change? Yes, it’ll have no choice really. How smooth that happens doesn’t look good at all. But that’s in my eyes and my eyes ain’t God’s eyes, that’s for sure. My only thing is to obey God, to trust Him and to do what He commands me to do. He’ll take care of the rest, not me. Today many preach that the Lord is going to make us all prosperous in the present system. And I can state right here that those folks have not even the slightest idea what they are talking about. They have not the slightest idea that our money is essentially worthless, absolutely nothing backing it up, nothing. A society that worships the economy and thinks the economy is god. So to put it bluntly, when someone preaches or a church believes that this is all good and God loves us with our worship of the economy they are lying through their teeth, nothing less. If someone comes up to you and says God wants you to be a millionaire tell them to go back to their master, Satan. Because that’s the god that does want that put in your head. This really gets me going to say the least. There’s so much of this lie nowadays in the church that its sickening. And people lap it up as fast as they can. But whatever happened to the Bible? My Bible doesn’t say these things at all! And I read it!
The most dangerous thing in the world is to read the Bible because it always exposes the rottenness in the church. Man’s wisdom is brought out into the light and exposed for what it truly is, sin, period. I’m currently reading a very good book, a novel which is rare for me to do. It’s called”The Saint of the Wilderness” and its about a circuit riding preacher in the 1800s and rarely does a book affect me that much. This was in the days before humanism infected and basically rendered the church impotent. The fire those folks had for spreading the Gospel through out the countryside is truly amazing and its without a doubt needed today more than ever. As they spread the Gospel for Christ, notice what I wrote, they spread the Gospel for Christ. Not for a church, not for people, but for the Lord. Just like in the Bible. And in this book is a theme that really caught my attention and that’s how those circuit riders many times would be farmers and had to get their crops in and had to harvest them. Because to put it bluntly, the pay was almost non existent, not like nowadays where its consider the norm to fully support a preacher in one church. Then in the periods where the farm wasn’t so over whelming they took off and preached whether to one person or a hundred, didn’t matter at all. And the Gospel spread and became established where it was not before. Its so different now, so different, and the effects nowadays certainly can be seen far and wide. The countryside is full of churches and Christianity is almost non existent never the less. What would happen if the Gospel would be preached to anyone that would hear it, like in them days gone by? Not like in these temples of humanism dotting the countryside where people walk out the door on a Sunday and live not one lick different than the world for the rest of the week. On a sad note, but maybe there’s a purpose in it that only God knows, my wife who hits allot of area garage sales has been coming home with Bible after Bible. Beautiful leather bound Bibles of every sort for 10 or 15 cents a peace. Sad because once I realized that in so many homes the Bibles are given at confirmation or some other event and then put away for a few years collecting dust and then finally put on the block in the garage sale. Most will have the name of the person the Bible belonged to in the front pages and most names I recognize. I know their ages and many other things about them. And as they get into their twenties or so, the Bibles get discarded, many times for life. And this is the state of affairs n the countryside. Christian in name, and that’s about it, but totally immersed into the world system. There is a need for those tactics of those old circuit riders to be reborn in the countryside and if the fuel situation keeps going the direction its going there might have to be a horse and saddle thrown into the equation also once again, I’m serious.

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