"I am the Lord your God ..." Exodus 20:2

A few years ago I had the opportunity to return to the homestead where I spent some of the happiest days of my youth. It is a farm situated in the midst of the wheatgrowing country of Pennsylvania, where my grandparents once lived. Shortly after I arrived, I walked out to a little knoll that overlooks the fields and sat down beneath the huge old walnut tree that has stood there for over a hundred years. From there I looked out over the fields. The wheat at the time was about a foot or so high, a beautiful lush green, and beginning to develop its heavy heads of grain. As I watched, the wind began to blow across the fields, sending shivers through the stalks.

Have you ever watched closely as the wind does that? The blades of wheat quivered and whipp…