(insert soft breeze, sweet scents, pastel and vibrant hues and bird-song)
...so on Saturday I reciprocated and went fume-in/exhaling with him😂😅
Below a local young man's first pull!
I was going to record one of these...
but the noise was so excruciatingly loud this is all I got...
(I dropped my camera 😅)
A tractor-pull exhibits each competitor in a brief
rush of noise, adrenaline and smoke
as they charge toward the finish line,
in hopes of the farthest pull/the win
without breaking down!
Quite the polar opposite of faithfulness, isn't it;
of quietly keeping on till we cross an invisible Finish Line?!!
(if we break down, by the grace of God
we get back up and press on!)
2 Cor.4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
To keep on keeping on in bands of faith and hope and love Will not draw crowds to line the stands with thunderous applause No trophy waits, or inscribed plaque, in recognition of Fidelity. Nor stats to track the progress to The Cause Until we cross the finish line where Time no more will be When faith and hope their charge resign in love’s eternity
To keep on keeping on is not a luring enterprise Appealing to bystanders, who have come to see a show It lacks the rush of pleasure that instantly gratifies Its distance none can measure to break records here below No adrenaline rush to fuel bursts of lightning speed But rather a steadfast pull-push while God supplies each need
To keep on keeping on is a most unembellished quest It does not earn reason to boast, save in the grace of God Knowing, in vessels earthen, we are given Heaven’s best God’s power; nothing human can inspire sweeter laud His promises beyond compare, faith, hope and love console Us day by day and prayer by prayer while we press t'ward the goal
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
After yesterday's wind and rain the garden, adorned with nature's jewels,
4And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes;
there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
There shall be no more pain,
for the former things have passed away.”
5Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”
And He said [b]to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
6And He said to me, “It[c] is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7He who overcomes [d]shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8But the cowardly, [e]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”