“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind and all your strength. And Love your Neighbor as yourself. There are not other commandments greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31
Over the past 5 years I have grown very close to some friends who are farmers. I grew up in a town of 52,000 so the concept of farming was very unfamiliar to me when I moved to Iowa. I had a neighbor who was very close in proximity, but I did not have day to day conversations with them. When I was living in Postville, IA I had a conversation with a friend about helping out our neighbors and was telling me about his “neighbor” who lived 5 miles up the road. I realized that in the farming community the concept of a neighbor is much different then that of a non-farmer. Farmers help one another and do it because that is how they survive. God has called us to help our neighbors and as I have been learning over the past couple of years, our neighbor isn’t the person sitting or living next to us; it is the person in need. We are called to help those in need and I have been demonstrated that one way this is done is in a small farming community in Postville, IA. How are you helping your neighbors?
Over the past 5 years I have grown very close to some friends who are farmers. I grew up in a town of 52,000 so the concept of farming was very unfamiliar to me when I moved to Iowa. I had a neighbor who was very close in proximity, but I did not have day to day conversations with them. When I was living in Postville, IA I had a conversation with a friend about helping out our neighbors and was telling me about his “neighbor” who lived 5 miles up the road. I realized that in the farming community the concept of a neighbor is much different then that of a non-farmer. Farmers help one another and do it because that is how they survive. God has called us to help our neighbors and as I have been learning over the past couple of years, our neighbor isn’t the person sitting or living next to us; it is the person in need. We are called to help those in need and I have been demonstrated that one way this is done is in a small farming community in Postville, IA. How are you helping your neighbors?
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