Thankful for source of harvest
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Editor,
The 2013 harvest in Lake County is accomplished; vegetables are frozen, the cherries are canned, hay is bailed, grain and potatoes binned and stored for the winter. Thanksgiving is happening in the homes and hearts of neighbors and friends who gather in the churches across our valley. This is the month of Thanksgiving.
There is a Psalm which scholars believe the Psalmist wrote to express his gratitude to God for the wonder of it all; the heavens, the earth, the harvest season, the greatness of God and the insignificance of man. He writes in Psalm 8, “O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth. Your glory is higher than the heavens.” Considering God greatness and man’s insignificance, David declares, “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you set in place, what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?”
The thought blows his mind. He considers heaven and God and earth and man, and declares, “What are mere mortals?” He concludes by affirming that not only does our majestic God care for us, he “crowns us with glory and honor” and gives to mortals “charge of everything you made.” What an awesome God.
Our farmers and orchard growers have ploughed and planted, nurtured and tended, harvested the fields and gathered the fruit, but it is God who provided the sun, the rain and the life that grew and produced the harvest. Thank you, neighbors, for your work and thank you, Father, for your loving care. We are grateful.
David ends his song the way he began, “O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth.” (Quotations are taken from the New Living Translation)
Harvey A. Town
Polson
