So God Made a 4-Her

And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a leader!". So, God made a 4-Her! God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day with their show calves, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to into town and stay until 11 at a meeting for the county. So, God made a 4-Her!
I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf into a halter, yet gentle enough to tame that same calf to follow. Somebody to call hogs, fix cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until her mom is done feeding and visiting with other 4-H moms about how busy and crazy her child is and mean it. So, God made a 4-Her!
God said "I need somebody that can shape a sculpture, make a project with a hunk of car tire, make an answer out of thin air, take pictures and edit video. And...who, at county fair time and show season, will finish her forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from rope burn, put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a 4-Her!
God had to have somebody willing to tame to steers in double speed to get them ready by fair time and yet stop mid-halter breaking and race to volunteer at camp for the local kids. So, God made a 4-Her!
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to lose after working all summer, and see others win, yet gentle enough to win graciously and keep trying year after year and teach the younger kids...and who will stop everything for an hour to lend a hand to a friend who's cow won't walk. So, God made a 4-Her!
It had to be somebody who'd try hard and long...and not cut corners. Somebody to lead and pull, study and learn...and clip and brush and glue and cut and crochet the blanket and knit the sweater. Somebody to refinish a table and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to the neighbors to help them finish theirs. Somebody who'd grow a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing and hard work, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when her sister says she wants to spend her years "doing what her sister does". So, God made a 4-Her!

-edited by Maggie Stiles, from orginal by Paul Harvey