“The harvest is the end of the world, while the harvesters are the angels” (Matthew 13:39).
The story is told of a geologist who was exploring an area of the Swiss Alps in the early thirties. He came upon a vast stretch of ugly, forbidding, desolate, barren land. His first impulse was not to move into that uninviting area. Then he saw an old man standing at the edge of the wasteland. On the old man’s bent back was strapped a sack of acorns. In his hand he held a length of iron pipe. The geologist watched in fascination as the old man used the iron pipe to punch holes into the ground. And each time he did this he…
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