Good morning. Often our faces show folks how we feel on the inside. What our attitude is. Whether we enjoy our work. Whether or not we are approachable. Has your face showed the folks you're around this past week you're happy to see them? That you have a positive attitude about life?
Earlier this past week we were able to be in the field. Often in our neck of the woods we have certain soils that tend to stay wet, so it's a gift when those parts of the fields are dry. Are any of you old enough to remember the old timers saying, "Plant in the dust and your bins will bust". We all know it takes water to grow a crop however planting without wet holes gives the crop a good start.
Spraying ground going to beans before the weeds come up helps weed control all season long. Sprayers also like dry fields. However they aren't crazy about the wind blowing.
A local manufacturer in Pella gave our Christian Grade School a load of ground rubber for the playground. Since we were needing to get their trailer back we rigged up a way where we could unload the pallets into wagons until folks had time to work with them.
It was a big week for staging and delivering seed corn. Karl was also able to start treating soybean seed. Thanks to Matt, Ryan, Pablo, Brad, and Alex for being such good help this week.
We had an ugly break on a field cultivator wing fold. Kurt and help removed the wing, hauled it in the shop, and rebuilt it. It always helps to go through machinery in the winter however if you are farming, you will have break downs.
Later in the week it rained. This is Alex finishing up fixing a tile in the dark and in the rain.
We have grandsons on their school trapshooting team. This is Cody using Grandpa's old shotgun that his Dad, Mike, redid.
Rachael, the Secretary of Agriculture's executive assistant called last week, said that the Secretary had seen our family in an article, and would like to meet us. So we did some sweeping where we were having company.
Bill is the face of Iowa agriculture and does a good job. Someone asked me this week why he would want to come see us. Good question. He didn't come to see tractors and planters. He came to see and relate to people.
Besides meeting the family he was also able to visit with friends. He asked Cal about his Farm Bureau trip to South Africa. He talked to Don about he and Bonnie's work with Nicaraguan farmers. Nathan, his staffer, and Mark knew each other from Farm Bureau and were able to catch up.
So I got to thinking, what are we the face of? Hopefully the face of our occupation, the face of a business working for others, the face of family, the face of folks that love the Lord.
Hopefully you all can make it to church this morning. What is your church the face of in your communities? Do folks just go to have a relationship with God or do you reach out to others as well that may not be comfortable in a suit and tie or don't have as many relationships as we all have. Trenton and Ben did a good job of special music last week in our church.
Duet 7:6 says, "Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be His own special treasure". God has given us a time and a place and has a plan for us. He wants His love to radiate in our faces and He wants us to be His hands and feet the short time we are here on earth.
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