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I know very little
about the people who call themselves Amish, maybe two or three things
at most. Read the book of Job in the
Bible and you have read the book of Amish.
These people live much like I think
God intended life to be. Maybe that is why Satan worked this fool up
into attacking the children in that one-room school. Much like Satan tried to break Job, and
failed.
I love going along highway U.S. 60 in
southern Missouri. There is about 20 or so miles of travel
where one may see a buggy with a horse clip clopping along. This is
around Mansfield
to Mountain Home and maybe a little more, one way or other. The man of the house and his wife ride up
front, the children in the back. You will get close on that road, and
there will be the road signs about “watch for buggies.” No problem,
they have a special lane. The only
time you got to be on your toes is when one goes clip clopping across
lanes, and that horse kicks it in super-high gear.
You can tell an Amish farm.
Every thing is so well kept, the house, the barn, the field of
crops. That buggy is up to snuff, also. The horse is a prize. You can
tell by the clothes, and the kids, Amish stand out as good people.
One of the brothers has a sick
spell. Can't do the farm work, no
problem. All the brothers, will come
and pitch in and will do it as long as it takes to keep his farm up in
tiptop shape. Something bad happens to Brother So and So’s barn. No problem, all will come with
tools, and put up a new barn. It was God's will that he needed a new
barn. The thing is, they don't have to be
blood brothers. They are brothers in
faith. All the sisters come
also. The kitchen is humming with good food being cooked up for the
men folk. All work together, helping
one another in time of need. These are true brothers and sisters
helping out in time of need. One hears this out of church people,
calling one another brother and sister. Amish mean it when one calls
another brother or sister. You have
a problem, well let me see what I can do brother. If it is a big problem, you will see the
buggies coming in force.
Just good people, living what may be
called a simple life—doing God's will as written in the Book of Books. Live and let live, help one another in
time of need. Laugh with one
another, cry with one another. We see that now in this time of
need.
Satan may think he did damage to
these people’s faith. He forgot
these people have what is called backbone. Do these people bend
and break? No these people are like Brother
Job in the Bible. They people cry
for the children lost, cry for the ones in the hospitals, cry for the
brothers and sisters who were hurt by Satan's work. Do they blame God? No it is Satan, and they know it. The strange thing is these people forgive
the weak mind that caused this harm to them. These people are indeed
strange in that way. All others
would have stormed the school, law or no law, tied a rope to the worthless
rat, dragged his lifeless body down the road to the city dump, and buried
it there. At least they would have
like to done so.
The people, the Amish seem strange to
most others. But,
I will tell you this. They are good
people. Can you find a more
God-Fearing bunch? God might have said that to Satan, much like he
said to Satan about the man named Job.
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