What It Was, Was a Peach Tree (standard:humor, 906 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Aug 16 2020	Views/Reads: 1244/912	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
If you know what you're doing, do it to God's glory, and don't let men distract you.

Click here to read the first 75 lines of the story

everybody in the valley suspicious and just thought my grandfather was 
trying to pull a joke on them. 

“Where's them peaches,” people would ask as they would drive by and stop
for a moment. “I want a peach.” 

My grandfather would smile, and it didn't seem to bother him that he was
the point of many a joke throughout the valley. 

The third summer, it was the same. No peaches. 

Then I went up on the fourth summer, and to my surprise, those peach
trees had peaches all over them. 

My grandfather was a farmer, and as a farmer, he knew how to "milk" a
situation. And boy, did he milk this situation. 

Everybody would stop by and ask my grandfather for a peach. 

My grandfather would smile and say, “Those peaches aren't ready to pick
yet.” 

When they left, he picked a peach from the tree, gave it to me, and told
me, "Here's the first peach from my peach tree." I ate it and boy was 
it delicious. 

Every day he would pick about a dozen peaches from the trees and take
them into the house. My grandmother knew how to make peach cobbler like 
no other peach cobbler I ever had. 

Day by day, he would take the peaches off the tree, and when people
would stop, he would tell them, "They ain't ready to pick today." Then 
they would drive away. 

Within a week, all the peaches were harvested from the trees. 

Then the fun began. People would stop by and ask, "Where's those
peaches?" 

My grandfather would stare back and say, “What peaches?” 

Then he would laugh as they drove away. 

He said to me, "Don't let anybody tell you what you can or cannot do."
And he walked away, smiling. 

As I was thinking about him today, I thought of the Scripture; “And
whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men” 
(Colossians 3:23). 

If you know what you're doing, do it to God's glory, and don't let men
distract you.


Tweet