An Old Farmer’s Advice

[243 words] • Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. • Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled. • Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight. • Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. • It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. • You cannot unsay a cruel word. • Every path has a few puddles. • When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. • The best sermons are lived, not preached. • God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. • Laugh every day. It’s like inner jogging. • If you worry, you didn’t pray. If you pray, you didn’t worry. • As a child of God, prayer is kinda like callin’ home every day. • Blessed are the flexible. They cannot be bent out of shape. • The most important things in yer house are the people. • When…