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Leah
Newbie August 2019 Prince Edward Island

Farm/farmer Related Reading for the Ceremony!?

Leah, on January 1, 2019 at 17:26 Posted in Wedding ceremony 0 5

I am looking for ideas and suggestions for a reading for our ceremony that are related to farming! Thank you in advance Smiley heart

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Latest activity by Joey, on January 17, 2019 at 10:53
  • Joey
    WeddingWire Admin May 2015 Maryland
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    Hey Leah, did any of these spark your interest? Have you enlisted the help of your officiant to help continue your search?

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  • Jennifer
    Super July 2019 Ontario
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    I really really like that!

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  • Hélène
    Devoted September 2019 Alberta
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    Ok, my phone and I are having issues. Here’s the text:

    And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer.

    God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So God made a farmer.

    "I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it." So God made a farmer.

    God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer.

    God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer.

    God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church.

    "Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'" So God made a farmer.

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  • Hélène
    Devoted September 2019 Alberta
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    “So God Made A Farmer” by Paul Harvey is the only one that comes to mind.
    It may be a little long but I’m sure you can find excepts that work.

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  • Tori
    Top October 2019 Manitoba
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    Hi Leah - congrats on the engagement and welcome to the wedding wire community! Unfortunately I only found this one that mentions a farmer only once - but here it is? (I'm sure you've already come across it.)

    Foxtrot From A PlayFarm/farmer Related Reading for the Ceremony!? 1

    Mostly everybody online looking for the same thing had to take a normal reading and change a few words here and there to make it fit their theme.

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