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A PERSPECTIVE ABOUT OLD BARNS
Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun, only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking. He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway. I told him right off he was crazy. He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car, his hands, and the way he talked. He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale. I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day. But then, there's been a lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone, and the wood has turned silver gray. Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired. Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.
That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood there, gazing at that old barn. The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls of his den in a new country home he's building down the road.
He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun, only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I. Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us.Sure we turn silver gray too... and lean a bit more than we did when we were young and full of sap.
But the Good Lord knows what He's doing. And as the years pass He's busy using the hard weather of our lives, the dry spells and the stormy seasons to do a job of beautifying our souls that nothing else can produce.
And to think how often folks holler because they want life easy!
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away to beautify a rich man's house. And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven to take on whatever chores the Good Lord has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been through here... and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.
May there be peace within you today. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
And...I do sincerely thank God for my wonderful friends and family
who love me even though I show signs of weathering.
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Westby
The City of Westby began as Westby Station in 1879 when
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad named this railroad
stop in honor of Ole Westby who owned a general store and was
Prior to 1879, this area was called Coon Prairie with a
general store and post office located at what is today called "Old
Town". Westby Station became a village in 1896, dropping the
word Station in the process. In 1899, Westby voted to dig a well,
build a water storage tower and install water pipes to all citizens.
This was completed in 1900. A power plant was built in 1902 to have
electricity available to anyone who wished it, but for over twenty
years, electricity was available only during daytime hours.
In 1920 Westby became a city. A citywide sewer system was
made available in 1927. From a population of 10 in the fall of 1848
to a current estimate of 2100, Westby continues to grow and prosper.
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