Participants: Joyce Neal
Series Code: GH
Program Code: GH000025
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00:01 Hey guys we are really in a neat corner of the world.
00:03 I love it here, it's beautiful. 00:05 We're down in the corner of Amish country in Kentucky. 00:09 We just stopped in to check out Yoder's Country Store and 00:12 all ready on the porch we see all kinds of wonderful bird 00:15 houses and feeders and lighthouses and gliders. 00:18 We are having a ball. 00:19 But I bet you there are even more neat stuff inside. 00:22 You guys want to go? 00:23 Yeah let's go check it out. Come on! 00:44 We're looking around at all the cool stuff in here. 00:46 One thing I wanted to show you is, can you boys guess 00:49 what this is on the shelf? 00:50 Pie filling! - pie filling exactly. 00:52 Isn't that the most ingenious thing you ever saw? 00:54 This is cherry pie filling. 00:56 You just cut off the end there and squeeze it right into 00:59 the pie shell and they have got Apple and cherry and lemon 01:02 and strawberry, any flavor you would want. 01:04 Oodles and oodles of stuff of every kind. 01:07 Oh and look, I love handkerchiefs and I think I will 01:09 get me one or two of those. 01:11 I like the blue one with the pink, this one, let me have 01:14 this one. Do you like the one with the horses? 01:16 Well that would be cool, would you like to have one for 01:19 a souvenir? You guys pick one out. 01:21 A souvenir is something to remember the day by. 01:29 Tiera come here I want to show you something. 01:31 Somebody told me you did something naughty? 01:33 That is hard to believe, but how would you like to get 01:36 paddled with that? 01:39 Ha, ha, she's not having no part of that. 01:41 It says grandma's paddle, look at that. 01:43 It is just soft and sweet as a pillow. 01:46 Yep that's a grandma's pillow alright. 01:48 You don't really want to paddle the kids like the moms do. 01:53 You do with lots of love, a very soft touch. 01:59 Yeah, and look at the ones with the shades on them over here. 02:02 Those would be like in the parlors or sitting room. 02:06 Well what did you boys find? Oh cool! 02:08 Yeah look at the tires, someone's really talented, 02:14 aren't they? Is this cute or what? 02:16 It's got color pockets for color crayons. 02:19 Isn't that cool? - oh cool! 02:22 They are real. But there's one Thomas the Tank. 02:26 Let's see, Cow Jumped over the Moon, and a quilted one. 02:37 Alrighty, we have been looking around the store and 02:39 finding so many interesting things, it's been a blast. 02:42 You know what guys? I happen to know there are some 02:44 horses waiting for us down the road. 02:46 Do you want to go? - yeah! Alright let's go. 02:49 Let's go pay for our things and and were heading down the road. 02:55 Ah, I made it, I made it. 03:01 Hey I like you, you and me are going to be pals girl. 03:04 Yeah, good girl, yeah, Yahoo. 03:10 It's easier walking. There we go. 03:13 One more time, all you are doing such a good job. 03:17 Whoa, slow down, good girl. 03:21 Oh this is my first horse ride and I love it. 03:24 She's doing such a good job, she is a minding very well. 03:27 She is not scaring me too much either. 03:30 The other horse I have tried to drag me through a tree. 03:36 Ms. Bell is a jewel, boy is she nice. 03:39 Oh, I get to feed her an apple. 03:42 Do you want a little treat for taking me on such 03:43 a nice ride? Of course you do. 03:46 Oh she is a lady too, look at that. 03:48 She doesn't want the whole thing. 03:51 She bites in half, there you go. 03:55 Well we have got a small horse, and we've got a medium- 03:58 size horse, I'm a little taller than her. 04:01 But I think I would like to see a horse that is really, 04:04 really big. Are you game for that? 04:05 Hey, come with me. Bye Ms. Bell, see you later. 04:10 Hey guess what? We found a couple of beautiful Belgium 04:14 horses and a hay wagon. 04:16 We are going for a hay ride. 04:17 Let me introduce you to these guys. 04:20 This is Bill, he is a fine fellow. 04:23 And this one on the other side is Barney. 04:26 They are just wonderful and I want you to notice 04:28 especially, look at the size of their hooves. 04:31 They are awesome. 04:33 You are such fine boys, do you think you can take all 04:34 of us, grand kids and me on a hay ride? 04:37 I'm counting on it. 04:39 Hey guys, can you give me a hand up here? 04:42 Lets see I'm going to have to hike my, here we go. 04:45 Somebody give me a hand, alright. 04:48 Oops let's go again, there we go. 04:51 I'm aboard. Alright, this is going to be fun. 04:57 Come on Tiera. The Amish guy right? This is uncle Ben. 05:00 Ha, Ha, Ha. Alright uncle Ben hit it, let's go. 05:04 Hup let's go. Giddy up. 05:12 Boy look how strong those guys are. 05:16 I think they must work out the field all day long, 05:18 what do you think? 05:21 Ah this is fun. 05:26 I think this is my first official hayride 05:29 I've ever had too. 05:45 sound of horses hooves ( clop, clop, clop) 05:55 Hey, these big old Belgium horses are used for work out 05:58 here, out in the middle of this beautiful Kentucky 06:01 rolling hills and they go out into the fields all day. 06:04 They do the harvesting, they do all kinds of work. 06:07 So they are really strong, they are wonderful horses. 06:10 They are very gentle too, but boy are they strong. 06:12 Aren't they Tiera? She tried to hold them back. 06:24 Hey guys are you having a good time? - yeah, yeah! 06:27 Alright I am too, this is the most fun I have had since 06:29 yesterday, I love having fun with kids. 06:38 Whew. 06:40 We are nearing home again and I'm thinking you guys 06:41 haven't got my address yet today. 06:43 So why don't you grab a pencil and paper and get ready 06:46 to write it down. 06:47 Whew, here we go, if you are ready, here it is. 06:53 Hey kids Graham Joyce would love to hear from you. 06:56 So why not sit down and write her a letter? 06:59 Like every grandma she loves to get pictures, 07:01 drawings or anything else you send her. 07:04 Just write to: 07:17 So what are you waiting for? Write her today. 07:22 Hi there you darling grandkids. 07:25 Come on in and find a comfy spot because I have got 07:28 a story to tell. 07:29 Don't you just love this little Amish doll? 07:32 Notice how she doesn't have a face. 07:34 That's because the Amish believe that would be making 07:37 an image and they want to keep the second commandment 07:40 because they love God so much. 07:43 Well I love the way the Amish folks live, don't you? 07:46 It seems slower and more peaceful to us. 07:49 But it has a lot of hard work in it too. 07:52 They don't do things the fast and easy way. 07:55 Even way back when I was a brand-new kid, I always 08:00 loved the natural things of the outdoors. 08:03 The old timey things from times gone by. 08:07 I've always wished I was born back in the pioneer days. 08:10 Have you ever wished that? It seems like it would be so 08:14 much more romantic and adventurous to cross the 08:17 prairies in a covered wagon. 08:19 Or if you lived in a log house where you had to grow all 08:22 your own food to survive. 08:24 Why just the thought of wide open spaces with no fences 08:27 in them just thrills my heart and I want to go tramping 08:31 all over the place with wildflowers at my feet 08:34 and wind in my hair. 08:37 Well I kind of grew up that way when I was very young. 08:40 I guess I never got it all out of my system yet. 08:45 But I'm not so sure that God wants it out of my system. 08:48 I think that maybe God wants us to live in a more quiet 08:52 simple way, you know a way that is more natural like. 08:56 Well the Amish people live that way. 08:59 They live very much like everybody did about a hundred 09:02 years ago when there was no electricity and no cars 09:05 and certainly no iPads. 09:07 Well grandpa Stu was raised with a lots of Amish neighbors 09:12 when he was a boy in Pennsylvania. 09:14 After he grew up we got married, he took me back there 09:17 to meet his family. 09:19 Well his grandpa had a big old farm in the old days, but by 09:23 the time we went back he had sold most of it to the Amish 09:27 farmers that lived all around him. 09:28 In the early morning we would hear the horse-drawn milk 09:32 wagons clattering down the road. 09:34 They would be taking the morning milk to the creamery 09:37 and the cheese factory that the Amish owned. 09:39 During the day we could walk up the road in the other 09:42 direction and see the men working in the cornfields with 09:45 teams of horses, mothers hanging their clothes on the 09:47 line to dry or working with the smaller children 09:50 in the vegetable garden. 09:52 Farther up the road, Mr. Miller worked in his shop where 09:56 he made beautiful, lovely handmade furniture. 10:01 The older children went to a small one-room schoolhouse 10:03 during the day, and the horses they rode to school, 10:06 well they would be munching grass out in the shade while 10:09 they waited for school to be over. 10:11 It was all so peaceful, the loudest noise you could hear 10:15 was the buzzing of the bees. 10:17 One evening, while grandpa and I were sitting in the 10:20 porch swing, he told me that sometimes the Amish young men 10:24 who were courting a young lady, they would take them out 10:27 for buggy rides on Sunday nights and sometimes they would 10:30 race to show off to the girls. 10:32 Hardly were those words out of grandpa's mouth when 10:35 we heard the clattering of horses hooves and 10:38 buggy wheels on the pavement. 10:40 Over the rise they came side-by-side, on a narrow 10:44 two-lane road and went up and down over a thousand 10:47 little rolling hills. 10:49 The boys were yelling to make their horses go faster, 10:52 and the girls were squealing in excitement 10:55 and pretending fright. 10:57 The boys shirts were flapping in the wind and the girls 10:59 bonnets flew to the ends of their strings. 11:01 Oh what fun, in a flash they went past us and out of sight 11:05 around the bend. 11:07 But just before they disappeared one of the girls bonnets 11:11 flew out of the buggy. 11:12 Oh she shrieked, but the buggies raced on and her bonnet 11:16 was lost, oh, what was she going to tell her mother? 11:20 Well I felt sorry for her predicament so I went out to 11:25 the road, I found her bonnet and hung it 11:27 on a fence post for her. 11:29 Grandpa and I laughed and had the best time watching 11:32 the young folks. 11:34 The Amish people live simply and naturally and at a slower 11:38 place than the rest of us often do. 11:40 While most of us grown-ups are always rushing around, 11:44 were trying to cram at least one more thing into our day. 11:47 Sometimes even kids get caught up in the frenzy. 11:50 Well with school and music lessons and soccer and 11:53 baseball, texting and surfing the web and all kinds of 11:57 other things to keep you busy. 11:59 Now there is something to be said for staying busy. 12:03 After all idle hands are the devil's workshop you know. 12:07 But you see there is a natural pace, a temple like music 12:11 God has put into every human heart to measure out 12:14 the chaos of life. 12:15 Do you know what a metronome is? 12:18 Here is one that belong to my friend Jill. 12:21 It belonged to her grandmother, it is very old but I think 12:25 it is very beautiful too. 12:27 People use it to keep the beat of the music going at just 12:30 the right speed. 12:32 Now watch, if I move this little weight up, it starts out, 12:36 see how fast it goes? 12:42 If I move that little weight up, see it go slower. 12:48 If I move it down the time of the music will speed up. 12:51 Well God put something like a metronome in your heart 12:56 to help you live in the happiest way possible. 12:58 He set this little timekeeper in just the right pace to 13:02 give you joy and peace, energy and strength, 13:05 music and song. 13:08 It's not too fast and it's not too slow. It's just right. 13:11 You can feel it in your chest as it goes just about the 13:14 same speed as your heart beats. 13:17 Solomon says it like this, there is a time for every 13:21 purpose under heaven, ah there is a time, I like that. 13:26 You see life has a rhythm that God ordained and we 13:30 just have to be in tune with it to be really happy. 13:34 There is spring and fall, summer and winter, day and night, 13:38 work days and Sabbath. 13:41 It all flows together with a certain rhythm like music. 13:44 And giving time to each thing in its turn 13:47 makes life beautiful. 13:49 Well until I see you again, remember that you are always 13:54 close to my heart and I love you so much. 13:57 You are just my best friend ever. 14:01 Somebody told me you did something naughty. 14:03 That's hard to believe. 14:05 But how would you like to get paddled with that? 14:10 Ha, Ha, Ha she is having no part of that. 14:12 It says grandma's paddle. It's soft and sweet as a pillow. 14:15 Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup! 14:19 This is as much fun as riding a pony isn't it? 14:23 Ah, let me see your faces, are your tongues hanging out boys? 14:25 I can't see anything but slobber and slime 14:28 flying from their faces. |
Revised 2014-12-17