THE JOY OF AGRICULTURE is hard to achieve, as a rule, because intense investment of capital and labor are needed up front, with only the possibility of a harvest much later.
To be dependent upon the combined efforts of the family to sustain a livelihood on private farming is to ask a lot of family members. Yet, in return for their efforts, more than farm products are created. Family bonds are formed and strengthened. Faith in God grows, along with the crops. Certain practices, consistently applied, lead to success.
Alternatives, having a more immediate payoff, abound for almost anyone, yet are lacking in their usefulness in establishing family bonds, faith that God will provide, or belief that certain practices should be consistently applied, to lead to success.
We are in a difficult age, now, where people generally don’t know what to do, or who they are supposed to be. Yet, it is the next age that worries me: The Age of Survivalism.
Survivor’s Motto: Who Lives Matters..!
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