Threshing bee

Monday April 14th, Acts 2: 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. When older people, like myself, remember the good old days, what they often remember is how the need to work together played out in community. My dad was one of the last holdouts to get a combine for harvesting the grain. Threshing required community, people working together for the common good of all, and that is what we did. In the Midwest there are a number of places where they hold thrashing bee’s where all those who remember can come and spend a day participating and remembering the good old days of community’s working together for the common good. Sometimes they bring their children or grandchildren along to experience the joy of those days of yore. When it is over they go home and at the next election vote down the next set of school bonds because they don’t have any kids in school and property taxes are already too high. The lesson of thrashing remains back on the farm until next year. Who needs community when you’ve got it made? Maybe that is the problem.