I always enjoy a day at the ploughing championships maybe
because of the happy memories I retain from growing up on the family farm. The
world and his mother beat a track to the ploughing every September. It is
Europe’s largest outdoor event with in excess of 281,000 visitors to this
year’s event. Local farmers provided 700 hundred acres of their land to meet
the requirements for the ploughing events, parking and over 1,000
exhibits.
It is said that people who are close to the earth are
close to God and to the beauty of God’s creation. Jesus uses many images from the land in his
stories in the Gospels. He uses the image of the plough. “No one who puts their
hand to the plough and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God”. The person
who is constantly looking back will get nowhere. Too much time is wasted and
lost in looking back. Nothing can change anything we have done in the past.
Getting it right now gives us much more control in doing things better. God
wants us to move focus on the job at hand and move forward in hope.
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