A friend recently told me that she appreciates that I have
an ox in my barn. As she shared her admiration for my “barn” she said that sometimes she trades her oxen for manure-free. Only one cup of coffee in from my morning, I had that dazed and confused look. Initially, I thought that was the craziest
statement ever and I tried to pull out the mysterious
metaphor. Then it made perfect sense! You see, folks have no messes to clean up when they have a manure free barn. When your barn has no manure, its because you have no oxen. Are you tracking? When you have no oxen you don't have free fertilizer or an animal to plow.....
Proverbs 14:4 states that where there is no ox, there are no
crop; and a good harvest requires a strong ox for the plow.
Interpretation: If we
want a bountiful life and harvest, its pretty clear that there is gonna be some
stinky messes to clean up.
Sometimes a big harvest around the corner means, we are in those hip
waders plowing through to clean up the manure.
Here's to the stinky messes in life we sometimes have no choice but to wade through. The harvest is worth it.
xoxo
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