Something to Remember

A few weeks ago six Barr Rock chicks came to live here on the farm.  If all goes well there should be some fresh brown eggs in August or September.  About the same time a "rental bull" came to live for a few months in our pasture with the nine heifers who know this place as home.  Once again, if all goes well, there should be a calf crop on the ground sometime around Christmas.  Much the same thing could be said about the old pecan trees which are now putting on leaves.  Sometime around October pecans should be on the ground.

 

What do these things all have in common?  Through them we are reminded that creation works slow.  Few things come and go quickly.  While modern culture's child may think having a peach, or an apple, or some broccoli is as quick as opening a can, creation speaks a different word.  Creation does not work in a hurry.  We are the only part of creation obsessed with the idea that hurrying is both a good thing and unavoidable.  Perhaps, one of the things being learned from these days of trouble is the truth that it is possible to live without being in a hurry. 

It is odd that we are considered the highest of all creatures, yet, we are most out of sync with the rest of creation.  No other part of the creation hurries.  We do it all by ourselves.  Surely, this says something to us about how we live.  Living in such a hurry that we cannot really focus on where we are and who is with us is not living.  It is existing.  One of the things we are beginning to learn in these troubling times is that there is more to life than hurrying from one thing to another.  Hopefully, when the season of trouble passes, we will remember.