We all know that nothing ever stays the same. Change is inevitable.

In my short lifetime so far I’ve seen lots of amazing changes in production agriculture, and technology that are hard to believe.

We used to make rows through a field by focusing on two objects some distance apart much like a set of rifle sights. Line em up and make a light scratch through the field as a test run, then when you were satisfied with them you’d run back through with the lister down and make them for real.

When that pass was done you were pretty much stuck with what you had…crooked, curved or straight, there was no straightening them.

Reminds me of the Bible verse in Ecclesiastes 1: 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Then came along GPS (global positioning satellite) auto steer in tractors. You basically set a line you want to travel, straight, curved, or in a
circle pattern and through computers and hydraulics all guided from a signal from the sky… it’ll make a curve, circle or a line better than you can drive all with sub inch accuracy. Just simply amazing!!

The changes I’ve been through seem small compared to when it was all put into perspective for me from my wife’s grandad years ago. You see before he passed from this life I said to him one time, “Lee I bet you’ve seen a lot of changes in your life ain’t you?” He looked off into space for the longest time, and I was about to think he wasn’t gonna say anything at all. Then all of a sudden, he turned to look me square in the face, and says to me “son I’ve seen em go from walking behind a mule to flying to the moon!” That statement really made me think about how smart them old timers were. No calculators, no computers, and no email.

Real thinkers they were back then. I’m not saying that there ain’t some smart folks still out there… but man oh man, they went to the moon! They went there with paper, pencils, and slide rules. I’m about to think most of the deep thinkers are gone and all we have nowadays is a bunch of connivers and conmen.

Anyway…

Back to Ecclesiastes 1:15
“That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is want- ing cannot be num- bered.”

The second part of that verse says… and that which is wanting can-

not be numbered. That means exactly what it says… the things that we want cannot be numbered. We are never satisfied, just al- ways wanting more. Which brings me to:

Ecclesiastes 1:18

“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

Just some of the things I ponder while I try to keep my own rows straight in this life… Hope you can do the same without veering off into the ditch.