From Author Robert Jackson:
This book is dedicated to the memory of my Uncles Billy, Ralph, Scott and Carl – all of whom invested in my life as a teenage boy in various ways and at different times on the pig farm. I grew to appreciate them as they were well-respected, hard-working, and intelligent businessmen and farmers.
As I look back on my life, I am grateful for the day my father announced, “Boy, on Monday morning you are going to work on your Uncle Carl’s pig farm. Be there at 8:00 a.m. sharp.” Dad was a doctor, a major in the Air National Guard at the time, and a Vietnam veteran. I didn’t get a vote. It never even crossed my mind that I could protest and say, “Aw, Dad, I won’t work on no pig farm.” I dutifully showed up at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning and every morning thereafter. You don’t jerk the mask off the Ole’ Lone Ranger, and you don’t disobey Dr. J! You catch my drift?
Nevertheless, I am glad I had the opportunity to get to know my uncles and some of my cousins working on the farm. I got a real good suntan, tons more freckles, learned how to be alone on a tractor for endless hours in tedious boredom, and made close friends with hundreds of pigs.
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Whether you’re a farmer, a wannabe farmer, or a curious passerby, this book is spellbinding for every reader. Journey alongside Robert as God uses various experiences on his uncles’ pig farms to teach him to be more like Jesus.
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Review Quote:
I laughed – out loud! At other times I paused, and I pondered my own experiences in life while saying, “I never thought of that.” In his latest book of The Family Doctor Speaks series, Dr. Robert Jackson brings us down on as low of a level as possible – with the pigs. Pigs are marked as an “unclean” animal to Jewish people, yet the Bible speaks of pigs in thirty-three places.
Dr. Jackson invites us to peer into his own life and learn lessons from his adventures with pigs.
An English proverb states, “A pig never smells its own stink.” Most of us have never taken the time to reflect on what we might learn from these filthy, yet delectable creatures. Robert’s storying is such that you can almost smell those pigs as you read. As you begin a chapter, you easily become a part of that story and cannot stop until you know what happened.
I have heard, “You can never make an arrow out of a pig’s tail,” and equally true, you will never forget the truths you learned from Pig Tales and Bible Truths.
— Michael Cloer, DD
Mission Strategist
The Cape Fear Network of Baptist Churches
