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Michael Soldan's Poem

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Nebraska Cowman

12-24-2005 04:16:57




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Reading Michael's post I thought of this poem I wrote several years ago.
Snowflakes are gently falling on this new December day,
As cows and horses in the barn munch on grist and hay.
The barn cat in the window and the dog on bales of straw,
For them to while the time away is rest without a flaw.
It’s peaceful in the stable when the morning chores are done;
As I reflect upon the reason for the day that’s just begun.
For Christ was born some years ago in a stable much like this,
With simple folk to welcome him, and livestock if you wish.
Some cattle tied in wooden stalls, I vision it this way, Low softly to the Baby Child as they dine on fragrant hay.
Fresh provender spread teemingly in a manger such as these, To gently hold the new-born Child as he lay in quiet dreams.
And I am dreaming too it seems of a simpler place and time,
And I know that God still cares for a humble job like mine.
He highly esteems cattle, his “all creatures great and small”
And places them in mankind’s care, to look after, one and all.
And so this wise I give Him praise for the part I’ve had to play,
And to counted as a Rancher on this Holy Christmas day.

Nebraska Cowman 1997

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Jimmy King

12-24-2005 09:00:25




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 Re: Michael Soldan's Poem in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-24-2005 04:16:57  
Amen, Cowman, Amen



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Delbert from Lincoln

12-24-2005 08:46:42




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 Re: Michael Soldan's Poem in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-24-2005 04:16:57  
I remember reading a similar story in a Readers Digest book, 40 or more years ago. The boy who came to visit was a grandson, It was a old organ, that had belonged to grandpas parents. Great Grandpa had bought it for Great Grandmaw when he left for the war between the states. He never returned home. The man no longer played it, and the grandma had arthritis problems. So they decided to give it to their church. They got Grandma high on apple cider, then started the Rumley Oil Pull which hadn"t been started since threshing season, (whats the chances of that) loaded the organ on a sled. Grandpa played out and a couple of neighbor kids went on to the church with the boy. They could not lift the organ up into the church. A man in a Civil war uniform appeared and helped they put it in, then dissappeared before there eyes. The next morning they went to church and the grandpa was so moved, that he walked up to the organ, sat down and played it for the first time in 60 or 70 years.

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Ron Sorden

12-24-2005 05:39:36




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 Re: Michael Soldan's Poem in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-24-2005 04:16:57  
Thanks Cowman. That was moving and very apt. Merry Christmas.

Ron



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David A. Hodson

12-24-2005 05:36:29




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 Re: Michael Soldan's Poem in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-24-2005 04:16:57  
Amen. Very nice Cowman, I enjoyed reading it very much, have a Joyous and safe Christmas and we talk later. Merry Christmas and God Bless to all. David, Ida, Kassandra, and Little David Jr.



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Michael Soldan

12-24-2005 05:24:12




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 Re: Michael Soldan's Poem in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 12-24-2005 04:16:57  
Bless you Cowman you spoke for every farmer and rancher under God, you have a very Merry Christmas There was a Christmas special on TV many years ago and I wonder if you or anyone else can identify it. The scene was a farm in Nebraska. A framer and his wife have grown apart over hard times and he turns against the church and quits going but his nephew comes to stay and he has a relevation. To surprise and make up to his wife he decided that he will load up the piano and take it to the church on Christmas so that she can play for the congregation. They concoct a scheme to get her inebriated so she doesn't know, while he delivers the piano and there through the stormy night a John Deere on steel is coming through the corn stalks, cross country, a lantern hung on the front for light and the piano gets to the church for the service..it was a delightful piece of entertainment..but I never knew the name of the flick...Everybody ..Merry Christmas...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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