Subject: farmer's almanac? |
Bible Note: Doc, your post about "the signs being right" (or wrong) brings back memories that have lain dormant in my little gray cells for decades. Yes, now I remember hearing the grown-ups talking about "the signs" when I was a kid growing up in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee. I recall hearing an old truck farmer -- he seemed old to me then: nearly everybody seems hold when you are 8 or 9 years old -- I recall hearing an old truck farmer talking to my dad about planting peas or corn or whatever and saying, "I can't plant until next week. The signs ain't right this week." I didn't know what the old farmer was talking about, and as soon as he got out of ear-shot, I asked my dad what the signs were. But even after my dad tried to explain the signs to me, I still wasn't sure I understood the idea very much. These simple old farmers of yesteryear who looked to the signs for help in planting their fieldswere, nearly all of them, professing Christians, some very strict and devout ones. I suspect that scarcely a one of them was even vaguely aware of the origin of the signs. I doubt that it ever occurred to any of these old planters of days gone by, them whom we now incline to think of as simple folk, that trusting in the signs for guidance, agricultural or otherwise, was in any manner in conflict with the faith they confessed so fervently in congregation every Lord's Day morning. --Hank |
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