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Date Posted: 15:41:16 01/29/04 Thu
Author: Cheri
Subject: What prayer can do.....


WHAT PRAYER CAN DO

Power in our day-to-day lives

Baled Out

The summer of 1993, rain deluged the Mid-west. Here in Jackson County, Iowa farms were flooded, the hay crop ruined. There was enough feed to last
through autumn, but how would we probide for our livestock come winter?

Cold weather set in, and hay mangers remained bare. Cattle died. Our neighbors went bankrupt. Families suffered.

Then farmers in Pennsylvania heard about our plight and donated hay. One thousand four hundred forty bales were on the way by rail, each one an answer to prayer. I joined the committee that handled people's applications for free hay. I knew everyone of the 18 farmers who signed up.

The day the bales came, everyone pulled up their hay wagons to the rail yard Men climed inoto the boxcars and tossed fresh hay down to their neighbors.

I carefully counted bales---1,440 bales, 18 farmers, 80 bales each.

A little old pickup drove up. An elderly man I didn't recognize got out. This is where we get the free hay?" he asked. "I'm going to have to sell my horses if I don't find some."

I can't ask the others to give up some of thier hay. Eighty bales will barely get them through the week.
It nearly broke my heart to tell the elderly farmer all the hay was spoken for.

"I might as well stick around and lend a hand," he said, and jumped into a boxcar. Lord can't you do something for this man? I asked.
Finally all the wagons were filled. "There's some hay left!" someone
yelled from one of the boxcars.

The old farmer's eyes lit up. We piled the extra hay into the bed of his pickup. There was room for 14 bales --- the exact amount that was left over.
Just goes to show that no matter how great the number, no matter how great the need, the Lord always provides.
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Joan Englelhardt Nielsen
                         
Preston, Iowa

Taken from Feb. 2004 Guideposts

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