[Vision2020] Fw: FW: Old Barns

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This was sent to me by my daughter. I thought some of you might like it.
Roger
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From: "Eileen Rowan" rowan33 at suddenlink.net
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:03:15 -0700
To: rowan33 at suddenlink.net
Subject: FW: Old Barns

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PERSPECTIVE ABOUT OLD BARNS

        Only years of standing in the weather,
        bearing the storms and scorching sun,
        only that can produce beautiful barn wood.

        A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to
thinking.
        He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway.
        I told him right off he was crazy.
        He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car,
        his hands, and the way he talked.
        He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn
        sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale.
        I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.

        Sure, it was a handsome building in its day.
        But then, there's been a lot of winters pass with their snow
        and ice and howling wind.

        The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's
gone,
        and the wood has turned silver gray.
        Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired.
        Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.

        That set me to thinking.
        I walked out to the field and just stood there, gazing at that old
barn.
        The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls of
his den
        in a new country home he's building down the road.
        He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
        Only years of standing in the weather,
        bearing the storms and scorching sun,
        only that can produce beautiful barn wood.

        It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I.
        Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us.
        Sure we turn silver gray too... and lean a bit more than
        we did when we were young and full of sap.

        But the Good Lord knows what He's doing.
        And as the years pass He's busy using the hard weather of our lives,
        the dry spells and the stormy seasons to do a job of beautifying
        our souls that nothing else can produce.
        And to think how often folks holler because they want life easy!

        They took the old barn down today and hauled it away
        to beautify a rich man's house.
        And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off
        to Heaven to take on whatever chores the Good Lord
        has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.
        And I suspect we'll be more beautiful
        then for the seasons we've been through here...
        and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.

        May there be peace within you today.
        May you trust God that you are
        exactly where you are meant to be.

        And...
        I do sincerely thank God
        for my wonderful friends and family
        who love me even though
        I show signs of weathering.







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