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Monday, August 29, 2005

Jeffersonian Agrarianism


For the World

I till earth
I tend it's produce
I take it's yield

For the World

I love beasts
Creatures great and small
I nurture daily
Dismantle monthly

For the World I love

I touch creation

Daily

Creator
Gives good gifts
Touching me
Daily

With rain
Sun
Harvest and
Love

For the World


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posted by Matt @ 10:15 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At 8/29/2005 8:25 AM, Blogger Matt said…

    Today I leave for a week of volunteer work at the World Hunger Relief Farm in Waco, TX.

    I'm excited to give of myself. I'm excited to dip my toe into this water and see if it is where God would have me swim. Mostly, I'm excited to get outside in the heat and get my hands dirty.

    Thomas Jefferson thought the only way a republic could survive was by the virtue of it's people. He thought America had a shot since we WERE a nation of farmers. He thought farmers had the opportunity for special connection with the Creator. He also thought that since they provided for the sustinence of society, they had a better chance of being selfless people.

    I wonder if the dissappearance of the American family farm has anything to do with the moral decline of our country. (?)

    quotes:

    "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line. I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else." --Thomas Jefferson

    "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth." --Thomas Jefferson

     

  • At 8/30/2005 3:09 PM, Blogger bev said…

    hey matt graham . . .

    i really like your posts . . . they always make me smile and think and feel so glad that you write them and that you're so good at poetry and with words!

    thanks for sharing them w/all of us!!

     

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