By Jerry Nine
I have a friend who has cancer. He is a believer but he is also concerned. It is an aggressive cancer.
I reminded him that he is not going to die one day sooner than he is supposed to. However, I firmly believe that his family and friends could pray for him and get a few years extra life or even the cancer to disappear. God knows the before and after and he knows whether those friends are going to pray for him and he’ll be granted extra life. So, God still knows the day he is going to die.
Otherwise if there were no hope there would be no reason to pray at all. Even some atheists claim they do not believe but when they have no one to turn to they grasp for hope.
The cattle market has slipped some but is still good. Sometimes you get the futures selling off and then other big players follow suit. A lot of the bigger feedlots are full but there are not many true hard yearlings available. There are quite a lot of calves off the cow available but even those numbers are less than usual. I wish the majority of sellers who do not wean their calves sold them two months earlier or two months later rather than in the middle of 50- to 60-degree swings in the temperature.
My opinion is the 7 to 8 million people that we let freely come into this country will go down in history as the worst mistake any administration has ever done. There are bound to be a lot that want a better life and willing to work but there will be way more than we want to think that came in the middle of the glut that want to do damage to America and sadly probably will. We already have a lot of people protesting America. If you don’t like it, then leave.
I’m glad our country is staying friendly to Israel. If you read the Bible, you will know they will not lose.
One man said to me, “I can see why you stay so limber.” I said, “Why is that?” He said, “Cause you always have your foot in your mouth.”
A friend said to me that I am not the stupidest man in the world, but I better hope that he doesn’t die.
A man stopped me at the sale and he said, “I can get by with saying more stuff that he could never get by with.” I said, “What did I say?” He said, “You ran that cow and calf in the ring to sell and said she has a nice pair.”
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
