[Vision2020] "So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey

[deb]

The coolest image, from my point of view, was the young girl----get 'em young, start 'em organic, and make farmers from 'em!
Debi R-S
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Cc: Jeanne McHale ; Fritz Knorr 
  Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 7:13 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] "So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey


  The following poem was presented as a video during a commercial break of Super Bowl XLVII.

  "So God Made a Farmer" by Paul Harvey


  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzhwkaNC40


  "God looked down on the earth he created and said, "I need a caretaker
  for this world I have made"; and so,


  God Made a Farmer... 


  God said, "I need someone ready to get up before dawn and milk the cows,
  til the fields, milk the cows again, and then go to town and stay past midnight at the 
  meeting of the school board";


  So God Made a Farmer... 


  "I need someone with strong arms, strong enough to wrestle a calf,
  but gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild;
  Somebody to call the hogs, tame cantankerous machinery,
  come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done 
  entertaining visiting ladies, and then tell the ladies "I hope you all come 
  back real soon", and mean it, and so 


  So God Made a Farmer... 


  God said, "I need somebody to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die; then 
  dry his eyes and say,maybe next year". I need someone to shape and axe handle 
  from a Persimmon sprout, and shoe a horse with a hunk of tire; make a harness out of haywire,
  feedsacks and shoe scraps; who at planting time and harvest will finish his 40
  hour week by Tuesday noon, then paining from tractor 
  back, put in another 72". 


  So God Made a Farmer... 


  God had to have someone to ride the ruts at double speed, to get the hay in ahead of the rain
  clouds, and yet stop in mid field to race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's
  place;


  So God Made a Farmer... 


  God said "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, and yet gentle enough
  to tame lambs, wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets; who will stop his mower for an hour 
  to splint the broken leg of a Meadow Lark;"


  So God Made a Farmer.... 


  It had to be someone who would plow deep and straight and not cut corners; Somebody to seed
  and weed, feed and breed, rake and disk and plow and plant; plow the snow and strain the milk
  and replenish the self feeder and finish a hard day's work with a five mile drive to church.
  Somebody who would bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing,who would 
  laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says he wants to spend his
  life doing what dad does!


  So God Made a Farmer... "


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  Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .


  "Moscow Cares"
  http://www.MoscowCares.com
    
  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho


  "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
  But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
  If you want to be like the folks on the hill."


  - John Lennon




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