Redneck Review!
No. 115 - 7/3/2017
Wow!  Here it is again, that FOURTH OF JULY time of the year!  Rodeos, cowboys and cowgirls, early western breakfasts, fireworks, egg destruction...err...TOSSES, children contests and entertainment...and this year, beautiful sun rises and sun sets, and weather near perfect, cloudless skies, but a gentle north breeze which keeps the temperature warm for sure, but not unreasonably hot!  (Global warming will have to wait another day or two!)
Baled and "ready to bale" hay all over the area, a bumper crop it seems, and lo and behold, evidently all going into the barns and stacks, WITHOUT ANY RAIN!  Almost unbelievable, as my father used to tell me, never swath hay before the 4th, because it will always get wet!
Not this year, my dear old deceased father!  The Lord has been super good to us, and soin words I first learned from the Johnny Appleseed song all we Red Necks knew when we were growing up,  "And so we praise the Lord!  He has given me the things we need, the sun and the rain and the Appleseed...the Lord is good to me."
Yes, living in this part of the country, we all know we must agree... the Lord has been good to us!  (Though, dear Lord, if it is not asking too much, could we now have about an inch of your gentle rain to speed along the late seeded crops we see all around the area!)
The thoughts above came to me recently, as old friends and myself were discussing the latest news and the crazy things that are going on around the world. Constant battles in the Middle East, as one group there is determined to eliminate all others who disagree with their insistence that the entire world "do it their way" as we have been discussing in the last few issues of these reviews. Locally in our country, upset and very hateful people roam around, randomly picking out innocent people, and then blazing away, killing and maiming innocent individuals who are just tending to business, or on a casual outing of some kind or other.  Sad!  One is inclined to ask,  "Why so much hatred?  And why in this area, we are so blest, and seemingly far removed from such violence?"
Maybe the answer somehow relates to the events which happened over a couple of hundred years ago, when a determined bunch of our fore fathers risked life and limb to defend a way of life that was emerging on a new continent!  Not perfect we will admit, but those folks came here, settled this country against unbelievable odds, for essentially three reasons, religious, economic, and political freedom.
Too long a story to repeat here, but students of history know that "do it my way" kings and leaders in England and France handed out death sentences to those who opposed their particular way of thinking at the time.  Ever hear of Thomas Moore and John Fisher?  And what about the St. Bartholomew's day massacre in France? And study if you will, the reasons for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the Revolutionary War which followed, the events we have been celebrating this week!
Yes, we have been singularly blest to live in this country and especially in this area, and all of us might do some soul searching and ask, "Is there anything I personally can do to hand on this life to our children and grandchildren?"   The answer may vary from person to person, but a careful study of the deep seated Christian beliefs of most of the early settlers here might provide one answer! Appreciate the heritage handed us by those early Americans, thank most sincerely the many veterans who then and now have given so much to preserve what we have, and think about PRAYER! The Lord IS in control, and HE does hear our prayers! 
Jake Wren

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