Good words
Posted by: amazinggraze <amazinggraze@...>
This was written by a man that lives in ND. He went south all the way to the gulf coast and just got back. He wrote this to a fellow blogger who is going through a severe drought.
"Well Im back from a little tour of the Great Plains and I can tell you that this here drought runs right thru the heart of the bread basket. Oklahoma and northern Texas were especially bad. SW ND is a dust bowl as well.
I read somewhere that (not counting this year) for six of the last seven years, this Earth that some 6 plus billion humans call home has not produced enough cereal grains to feed its people. World grain reserves have declined to a scary 57 day supply. Thats 57 days before the start of mass starvation even in previously prosperous countries if this years harvest doesnt replenish the grain bins. None of this counts the terrible drought stressed declines in American grain production expected for this years harvest. Add to this the nightmarish happenings in the MidEast where we are one rocket away from losing a large chunk of the worlds oil if an oil tanker is sunk in the Persian Gulf.
Our modern self-centered life of pleasure and lust and the lust for pleasure can be gone with the next news broadcast. It breaks my heart to hear people talk about plans to buy or sell this or that home, four years from now doing this or that. Unless this is part of Gods plan, all of this talk is just mist in the wind.
If anything is said about tomorrow being forever changed almost everyone reacts with I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!
As sad as it is to see our farms and gardens day after day struggling with the drought and the emotional depression that this brings, please know my friend that all of this is part of Gods plan for his children. Maybe God also agrees with those Old Timers that we as a people and a planet need to see some REAL starving times to turn back to God and the love he gave us all thru his Son.
My friend, please make it your mission to make sure that your own family, your church family and as many neighbors as will listen, will be able to have enough food to live thru this coming winter and also have a way to stay warm regardless of what happens to world oil. Tomorrows (next weeks, next months, next years) news may make this drought insignificant by comparison.
In the mean time, our gardens here in the hills are sooo incredibly blessed with Gods abundance thanks to His gift of water that we can use to irrigate these little micro farming plots. Our little 12'x50' oats field is days away from cutting, bundling and stacking into shocks. I hope to try thrashing all of our grains with the centuries old flail. Of course, stories and pictures will follow.
May the Lord of sunlight and rain give you each in their due season. May He smile on your efforts to feed people honest, healthy food. May He give an abundant spiritual harvest to your farming ministry as well.
Stay strong! You are needed now more than ever! "
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