After seminary and a couple years as a full-time associate pastor out East,
I took the senior pastorate in a rural parish in Wisconsin farm country.
Driving back there this weekend for the dedication of a new church building.
A lot has probably changed in 30 years since we led the church to buy ground
for a “future” building!!
But got me thinking about the farmers and ranchers we’ve known. Here is a
list for ladies – “You Know you’re a Farm Wife If . . .
If your name is taped to the side of a cake pan:
If you know how to change the flat on your car, but can’t because the spare
is on a flatbed:
If you’re in the habit of buying food stuff in bulk:
If a “night out” involves the local 4-H club:
If the word “auction” makes you tingle:
If you’ve ever washed off the kids with a pressure washer:
If “a little bit of lunch” involves 6 courses and a dessert made from
scratch:
If taking lunch to the field is as close as you get to a picnic:
If your rock garden was hand-picked:
If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them:
If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of: filters, tires,
overalls, chains, belts, lights, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells:
If “Farm”, “Ranch”, “Country”, “Cowboy” or “Antique” is in the name of your
favorite magazine:
If you ever went on a date to the bull sales:
If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using a radio:
If you consider “hot dish” a food group:
If your husband says, “Can you help me for a few minutes?” and you know that
might be anywhere from one to six hours:
If you plan your vacations around farm shows or calving or planting or
harvesting:
If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems:
If you’ve ever said, “Oh, it’s only a little mud”:
If you need a pair of vice grips to run a household appliance:
If you’ve used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing:
If you’ve ever discovered a batch of kittens in your laundry basket:
If you live by the motto that if God brings you to it, He will bring you
through it.
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given