Emphasis Preaching Journal

The rows were straight as a sunbeam, and as bright with promise. The farmer had brought together ardor and order, and he had not been deterred by trouble or temptation to waver from his appointed task. From the point of origin to the distant goal across the field, the rows paralleled one another in perfect symmetry. This was more than the fulfillment of mathematical design; this was the result of the ability to focus on a distant object and plow straight toward it, never swerving from the goal, never looking back.