Preacher's Piece

When my son was still in high school, he and I set out to restore a 70 year old tractor. This tractor was manufactured during the World War II years and had been neglected for about 40 when we got our hands on it. Well, we stripped the thing down to nothing more than a pile of parts with labels, organized an inventory of what we needed, took the engine to the machine shop to get it rebuilt, and that’s when we got a little distracted.

What happened was, shortly after we started working on the tractor, our son turned 15 years old and began the countdown to 16. Having a part time job that he work...