Page 5 - Publishing Inspiration Christmas Card 2014
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Different Generations
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It was harvest time, and Dolores struggled
to feel like she was of any value. From the time
she was a young married bride, she had worked
beside her husband in the fields. She had been
as proficient at running a horse team as any
man. Later, as times changed, she learned to
work tractors, trucks, and every other kind of
farm equipment.
But things continued to change, and as she
grew older, she found herself being replaced,
first by her sons and daughters, and then by her
grandchildren. They felt she was too old to be
working in the fields, and she had to admit that
some of the fancy, modern equipment seemed
strange.
Every time she would try to find a place to
work in the cellars, in the fields, or on the
equipment, one of her grandchildren would
come along and say, “It’s okay, Grandma, I’ll
do that.”
Finally she retreated to the farm house
where her son lived. It was, in many ways, the
command and control center for the harvest
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