more Sunday work thoughts

boberjagel · Aug 16, 2015

In the 50's & 60's it was absolute that no work on Sunday for us except milking. Then a year came that was terrible for oats harvest and we had nice weather forecast for Sunday finally. My dad and 2 neighbors harvested together and dad said do we dare combine on Sunday and the one neighbor went to church and asked the priest for permission and it was granted with the priest saying "the good Lord gave you a brain to think with and your brain says harvest, so do it but take a day of rest in lieu of the Sunday lost" the other neighbor declined and now is 88 and never ever did give in to Sunday work. Maybe thats why he made it to 88. LOL

rrlund · Aug 16, 2015

Last year,the weather absolutely stunk. I worked most every Sunday just to get things done. Worst year I ever had as far as breaking things. If it could go wrong,it happened.
I went several years without working on Sunday,then three or four years ago,one of the boys chopped for me on a Saturday while I hauled when I was filling silo. He wanted to chop again on Sunday,so I said OK,why not. On the third load,a gathering belt ran off and went in to the rotary knife on that CaseIH chopper and cut it right in half. I spent all day Monday and almost $300 going to get one and putting it on. I lost a whole Monday for two and a half loads on Sunday. It's never worth it.

Ozlander · Aug 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:58:43 08/16/15) Last year,the weather absolutely stunk. I worked most every Sunday just to get things done. Worst year I ever had as far as breaking things. If it could go wrong,it happened.
I went several years without working on Sunday,then three or four years ago,one of the boys chopped for me on a Saturday while I hauled when I was filling silo. He wanted to chop again on Sunday,so I said OK,why not. On the third load,a gathering belt ran off and went in to the rotary knife on that CaseIH chopper and cut it right in half. I spent all day Monday and almost $300 going to get one and putting it on. I lost a whole Monday for two and a half loads on Sunday. It's never worth it.

What's the difference in spending all day Monday fixing it instead of all day Tuesday.

Goose · Aug 16, 2015

Years ago, a buddy of mine stacked some hay on a Sunday. One of his stacks spontaneously heated. His father swore to the day he died that the reason that stack heated was because it was put up on Sunday. Just sayin', I'm not about to get into an argument over it.

My wife and I are in the habit of going to our church service at 5:30 Saturday evening, but I still make a habit of not doing any work on Sunday morning. If I work on Sunday afternoon, it's stuff I want to do and enjoy, not stuff I need to do.

js305 · Aug 16, 2015

I worked for a supermarket chain for 22 years. They were open 7 days a week and everyone was expected to take their turn on Sundays. Had a preacher who hammered me about missing church on Sunday and chided me about working on the Sabbath. I answered him with a question: You work EVERY Sunday don't you? And don't say you are doing the Lord's work, as you also get paid for working on Sunday. He and I agreed to disagree after that.

rrlund · Aug 16, 2015

Don't know for sure that it would have been different,but he reversed the header and that belt ran off,then when he switched it forward,it cut it. On Monday,I'd have been running it myself and having more experience with it,there's a real good chance that I would have known it had run off.
That's my theory anyway,and I'm sticking to it.

Spudm · Aug 16, 2015

Keep the Sabbath holy. For some it is Saturday, and others it is Sunday.

fixerupper · Aug 16, 2015

Don't get me started talking about the people who strictly obey the sabbath and then go back to stabbing people in the back on Monday!

flying belgian · Aug 16, 2015

Years ago my uncle got his hand caught in the feed grinder. It happened on Sunday.

Eldon (WA) · Aug 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:46:14 08/16/15) Don't get me started talking about the people who strictly obey the sabbath and then go back to stabbing people in the back on Monday!

Sounds like my neighborhood growing up. We were always chastised for working on Sundays to the point that you never told your friends what you did on the weekend. Sorry, but I will take my day of rest whenever "someone" tells my mind to LOL!

Dick2 · Aug 17, 2015

We worked almost every Sunday during the summer so we could accomplish what was necessary before snow came down. Sometimes we'd see neighbors/relatives go to the lake on a weekend during harvest while we ran our combines. Sometimes it would start to rain about the time those people got back from the lake and their crop went to ruin over winter. They never seemed to learn, even when they went bankrupt.

Brown Swiss · Aug 17, 2015

My tractors and equipment do not own a calender, so I use them when ever I want, even on Sunday! If they have a break down on Sunday, it is most likely I forgot to take care of something on one of the other days.

rossow (mn) · Aug 17, 2015

Read Luke 14:5 regarding work on the sabbath.

coonie minnie · Aug 17, 2015

What is the greater sin, sit in church and think about your oats (or planting, hay, etc) or sit on the tractor and thank God for all his glory and for giving you the opportunity to accomplish something with the gifts he gave you????

Brown Swiss · Aug 17, 2015

This was on Little house on the Prairie! Season 1, A Harvest of Friends

Caroline Ingalls: Charles Ingalls!

Charles Ingalls: Caroline? Oh, you're back already, huh?

Caroline Ingalls: Earlier than expected, obviously.

Charles Ingalls: What are you talking about?

Caroline Ingalls: You couldn't stay awake to go to church and here you are working.

Charles Ingalls: Oh now Caroline, I woke up and you were gone. I couldn't just sit around the house doing nothing.

Caroline Ingalls: Charles, the Lord's day is set aside for worship and for rest.

Charles Ingalls: Caroline, now I got a field to plow and God ain't gonna plow it for me.

Caroline Ingalls: That is sacrilegious!

Charles Ingalls: Well to you, maybe, but not to God. He understands famrers.

Pitalplace · Aug 17, 2015

I did 16yrs in law-enforcement. Bad guys don't take Sundays off so we had to work all hours of the day everyday. I then did 18yrs on the railroad as a conductor. Trains don't take Sundays off so when I was called I had to work. Our pastor always said it was ok to miss church when I was a cop as I was doing Gods work. I always wandered what he would have thought about the railroad.

oldtanker · Aug 17, 2015

Interesting. While on active duty I worked a lot of Sundays with of field exercises or deployments. Always on 24 hour or less recall too unless on leave. That means they call you have 24 hours or less to report for duty. During the Cold War it was most often on 2 hour recall. I don't remember having anymore breakdowns of accidents on Sundays and over the space of 6 years and 2 units I was the accident reporting NCO for my company as an additional duty. In fact the only time we had more problems on Sundays was when we were off duty. That's when we had swimming and motor vehicles accidents. Never heard a Chaplin in the Army tells us we shouldn't work on Sundays either. Now if it's OK for a soldier to work on Sunday why shouldn't a civilian work those days too? Follow the money. A Chaplin gets paid by the military and therefore has no need for seats filled on Sunday to pass the collection plate. A civilian preacher has to have people in there putting money in the collection plate.

Rick

fixerupper · Aug 17, 2015

(quoted from post at 05:42:30 08/17/15) This was on Little house on the Prairie! Season 1, A Harvest of Friends

Caroline Ingalls: Charles Ingalls!

Charles Ingalls: Caroline? Oh, you're back already, huh?

Caroline Ingalls: Earlier than expected, obviously.

Charles Ingalls: What are you talking about?

Caroline Ingalls: You couldn't stay awake to go to church and here you are working.

Charles Ingalls: Oh now Caroline, I woke up and you were gone. I couldn't just sit around the house doing nothing.

Caroline Ingalls: Charles, the Lord's day is set aside for worship and for rest.

Charles Ingalls: Caroline, now I got a field to plow and God ain't gonna plow it for me.

Caroline Ingalls: That is sacrilegious!

Charles Ingalls: Well to you, maybe, but not to God. He understands famrers.

Bible verses are translated into anything we want them to say. I have always had the idea, but I have no proof, the original intent of the Sabbath is to rest AND WORSHIP all day long starting at midnight when the Sabbath day starts and ending at midnight when the Sabbath day ends. how many of us chant and worship all day long. If we are posting on YT on sunday we are obviously not taking that time to worship god so we are sinners! (in jest, of course) I was taught the bible, it's very good and wholesome reading, but so many people pick a verse out of the bible that agrees with their train of thought and say "see, here it is in the bible" and if it's in the bible it's true.

Oh man, now my statements will probably get this post poofed.

JBDyer · Aug 17, 2015

The 4th commandment, Exodus 20.....Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy....I'd rather work the six days with the Lord's blessings than all seven without his blessing. Christ said in an emergency it is o.k to work, He healed a few folks on the Jewish Sabbath, He also prepared food and ate on the Sabbath. Doctors and cops and fireman have a good reason, mowing the yard and shopping at Walmart aint making it Holy. Those who basically have to work on the Saturday or Sunday need to choose another day to rest and keep holy unto the Lord. These 10 commandments benefit us as well as our creator, there is a reason. If you don't believe in the Lord then do whatever you want, no sense in obeying your parents, might as well steal all you can lay your hands on, murder would be ok too, tell as many lies as you want, rape would be fine, cheat on your wife, greed and hatred will be your master, Yea, go ahead and do all that and see what it gets you. I will stick with the Bible and keep the Sabbath Holy and do my best to honor my Lord, I will meet him one day face to face after all. Just wanted you to know where I stand. Johnny

jimg.allentown · Aug 17, 2015

As told to me by an Amish bishop: God created the heavens and earth in six days. He rested on the seventh day. Now, by most definitions, Sunday is the FIRST day of the week. That makes SATURDAY the seventh day and therefore the Sabbath.
By that line of reasoning it would be OK to work on Sunday, but not on Saturday. Most religions do regard Sunday as the Sabbath. Just another point of view.

Ozlander · Aug 17, 2015

I assume you that don't work on Sunday also don't eat on Sunday.

Fred Werring · Aug 18, 2015

When I was a kid, (I'm 56), I think Ohio had what was called "Blue Laws", no stores were open on Sunday. If you needed gas to get anywhere, or needed something from the store, better get it saturday.

Sunday was the day you went to church, visited family, had cookouts with the neighbors, etc.

Not that we never worked on Sunday, just not nearly as often as now.

I'm not going to say it was a better way of doing things, but it was different, and now that I'm a little older, I'd appreciate it more.

Seems like all I do anymore is run...7 days a week.

Fred

495man · Aug 18, 2015

Times they are a changin'

There'd been no hay to feed the cattle one winter "here" if Sunday wasn't used to put hay up.

Same people who hold themselves high sitting in Church for not working on Sunday, listening to someone who is paid to work on Sunday, think nothing of later going out to a restaurant, buying fuel etc from someone who is working on Sunday.

oldtanker · Aug 18, 2015

(quoted from post at 02:33:05 08/18/15)
Times they are a changin'

There'd been no hay to feed the cattle one winter "here" if Sunday wasn't used to put hay up.

Same people who hold themselves high sitting in Church for not working on Sunday, listening to someone who is paid to work on Sunday, think nothing of later going out to a restaurant, buying fuel etc from someone who is working on Sunday.

Or calling the cops/EMT's/firefighters if needed on that Sunday. I still maintain that priest added stuff to the Bible even before it was actually written down to suit their need of money or power. Not denying God or the Bible. Just saying that the Bible has been tainted through the years.

Rick

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