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Surrounded
Buzzards are the bane of my existence. They have come to symbolize one thing: death. I was running errands yesterday when I got a call from our wonderful neighbor/family (we’re all family around here, and I don’t mean that figuratively) letting me know that buzzards were surrounding one of our cows and her newborn calf.…
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If Our God is for Us, Then Who Could Ever Stop Us?
We’ve all heard the voice of failure. It’s the voice that tells us we don’t measure up and probably never will. No matter how much we hustle to be great at what we do, it never seems to be enough. There are many areas of my life where the voice of failure has taken up…
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Great is Thy Faithfulness
Anything can go wrong during a frost where that kind of weather is rare. The waterlines are frozen, the water troughs are iced over, the tractor is cold and doesn’t start up well, and the cattle have ice on their backs. It’s an uncomfortable feeling because some of these cows still haven’t fully recovered from…
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God’s Country
I was knee deep in hay and manure yesterday as I cleaned out a section of the calf pen and felt like this would be a great dirty job for Mike Rowe. I began to wonder how long it would be before I grow tired of doing things like this. I’ve always thought of myself…
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All of Creation
Peering over a gate with a clear view of the field behind the barn, I watched as the calves and their mommas return after feeding on ryegrass for the past two hours. And then they started to play. Head to head, several of them wrestled and ran together. I hadn’t seen them in this good…
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Jesus Was a Carpenter
I recently started woodworking. I don’t know what brought it on other than the need to create something with my hands. Thanks to my generous family, I got a load of new tools for Christmas: a nail gun, table saw, miter saw, bar clamps, and more. My parents came to our neck of the woods…
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While We Wait
Now that the weather is playing nice around here, the ryegrass we planted back in October is finally ready for the cows to eat. It’s been ages since these ladies have had a decent buffet of tall, luscious grass to feast on. An electric fence has sectioned off each dining spot to protect from premature…
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I’d Rather Have Jesus
I stood in awe in the entryway to our storage unit, staring at the towers and towers of boxes. It was as if I opened the door to Narnia…if Narnia looked a metropolis of cardboard. This is one of FIVE units. (Granted three of them are filled with furniture.) I went there with the soul…
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Precious Lord, Take My Hand
I was standing in the dining room, looking out the back window at our beautiful backyard. The pool sparkled blue and white as the sun reflected off of the rippling water. And in the corner of the yard, there’s a plush green garden. I remembered how I had wanted to put a bird bath there.…
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I Surrender All
Leaving your old life behind to start a new one requires a step in faith and, in my case, a nudge from God. It was in October 2022 when I felt this nudge. We were visiting my in-laws whose home rests on a cattle farm. This farm has been in the family for generations. The…
Eyes Upon Jesus 