The Farmer's Fear and My Father's Confidence
Story★★★★When I was a small boy in the late 1930s, the farmer next to us was full of the anticommunist feelings that spread across our country. He talked about the ‘Reds’ all the time. I saw the pictures of Russian armies in Life magazine and had dreams of them coming across our farm. One day, the neighbor said to my dad, ‘Harry, what would you do if the communists took over?’ My father said, ‘I guess I’d keep on farming.’ Then I knew my dad wasn’t scared of the communists. The bad dreams went away.
The point
In the 1930s, a farmer fears communist invasion and tells his son so; the boy's father simply replies he will keep farming, dispelling the boy's nightmares through calm trust.
Scripture
Psalm 27:1
Audience
Adults
Tone
Reassuring · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 95 words