When we combined the last of the wheat this week, the two brothers ran the combine and the tractor.
The bent father ran the wagon at the auger, the one winding the kernels up into the storage bin.
And the grandsons took their lessons at the wheel, under the sky, in the wind.
When we combined the last of the wheat this week, we harvested the crop off the dirt he grew up working — and we harvested the crop off the dirt I grew up working.
I hadn’t expected when our skin married, so would our soil.
And yet — our skin is soil and our dermis is dirt and the printed fingertips of every person ever is etched with terraced earth of Eden.
We are of His spit and of this clay sod and our lives are holy ground.
When we combined the last of the wheat this week, I wondered, the puzzling kind, when I saw a children’s book in the tractor.
I wondered, the marvelling kind, that Levi, 9, could drive along the combine with such precision, could drive up to the bin and auger out his haul of wheat, his keen eye watching.
And when I saw Levi walk through the wagons, reading his book, I laughed wonder, that this is the kind of seed produced from the married soil of a bookworm girl and dirt digging boy.
The dirt gave us wheat and we are dirt, hungry for bread, and the world’s a family working the earth together, feeding off Love until we return to the ground whence we came.
When we combined the last of the wheat this week, the moments made themselves into bread and I tasted God.
He is good.
O taste and see that the LORD is good
I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
If you’d like to take in the whole harvest of 2010:
Wheat, Combines and Harvesting Happiness
How to Hear from God
when you’re looking for surround for the soul
Photos: the wheat harvest 2010
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