Emphasis Preaching Journal

Lyndon Johnson: "You know, in Texas, when we go to buy a farm, we don't put too much importance on the man-made disappointments -- like a rundown barn or a badly fenced pasture. A good farmer goes out to the fields and sees what's growing. He stoops down and tastes a little bit of the soil. He looks at the stock and streams and the spring. If these things are ample or can be made so by the sweat of his brow, the farmer knows the place holds a future. I grew up on that land. Some of it was mighty poor and rocky -- and some of it was good.