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Shortgrass

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A couple of weeks ago here on this site some of our feelings may have become too transparent, and people were saying some unkind things or at least thinking unkind thoughts. Here stand I, guilty in the first degree. This has resulted in the fact that there are some folks that we haven't heard from in awhile. Although we may not like these things, they are going to happen when people interact. I like the way most folks just dropped it but carried on in the profitable fashion that we are accustomed to. Reminds me of the Proverbs where it says that "where no oxen are the crib is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox." It's about time to clean some pens. If I didn't keep any heifers, my pens wouldn't need cleaned. Trouble is that in a few years I'd run out of cattle. I need to get some of the BS (actually heifer droppings) scooped out and piled up so that I can at least start off with clean pens at weaning time. I think that what this scripture is driving at is that if you deal with people that there will be some BS to clean up now and then, but we still need to deal with people. They say everyone makes mistakes. I say yeh, but not everyone learns from them! Have yourselves a good Sunday mornin' and a good rest of the week.
 
Yes, great message Shortgrass! BS is inevitable and it happens, but it still needs to be cleaned up.

Like your heifer pens, I try to keep my stock trailers cleaned out. BS left alone will attack both steel and wood to the point where the trailer would eventually require repairs or replacement.

I had my bumper pull all power washed with a bleach and soap solution. The trailer was spotless. I had pulled the rubber mats out and washed them and the floor underneath and even gave the treated wood floor a couple coats of deck/siding varnish.

But by nature of the job my trailer didn't stay clean for long. My cousin calls and needs help getting neighboring ranchers cattle out of their winter pasture. The cattle had crawled through an unnoticed washed out creek crossing that had taken out the fence.

So I load up my 4 wheel horse in the front of the trailer and my cousin's 4 legged horse in the rear. The 4 legged horse left quite a bit of biofuel exhaust in my nice clean trailer!

The trailer has now hauled a few cattle since then. So it's time to powerwash the road apples and BS out of the trailer again. It seems like an ongoing process because the clean phase never lasts long.

It works like that in our lives too. For certain we will have lots of BS to deal with. But we don't need to let it corrupt or weaken us. When we make mistakes and soil our lives, we need to turn to the Lord and He will powerwash us clean again.
 
The thing about BS is that it is part of life. It is those humans who start to judge it and then have others follow, that make BS a bad thing, just as much as the bull who pooped it out. We all know when we have done something right or wrong. Very few actually don't know; just choose wrong for personal reasons. Judgement of those people and ganging on usually makes both sides of the situation worse.

If God had intended BS to only be bad, why did he also make it an essential ingredient in the continuation of life. Sure makes my grass grow.

Have a great Sunday everyone and don't be afraid of a little BS. :)
 
Shortgrass, thank you for a very profound message. Thank you, John SD, for the further thoughts.

If your boots are too clean and shiny, you ain't a cowboy or probably even a very good Christian. :-) But then it is also said that "cleanliness is next to Godliness." Now I'm confused. :? :???:

You know, what it all boils down to is that it is not sinful to get dirty, but it is sinful to stay dirty. :-)
 
And I've clean out quite a few "pens" in my life -- It's never fun, but it's good to get it behind ya!!

Thanks Shortgrass!!
 
Very nice message Shortgrass. We as individual humans all have different ideas and views. Sometimes in debating them and meeting others who do not see "our" view things can get heated and tempers can flare. Out of this hurt feelings can occur. But also sometimes learning can too. The art of compromise can develop and sometimes individuals just have to agree to disagree. Myself I think it would be a very boring existence and unstimulating if we all agreed and just patted each other on the back with atta boys. JMHO Once again thanks for the thoughts.
 

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