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Psalm 9: Maybe Life is Good
Sometimes the gravity of a big life change hits us at unexpected times. The reality of the detour catches up with us, and we’re left wondering if we’ll ever catch up with the life we wish to create for ourselves. It’s been over 500 days since we moved. I thought by now I’d be filling…
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Psalm 8: How Great Thou Art!
Every night before going to bed, I go out and observe the stars. I know each tiny speckle is something on a much larger scale trillions of miles away, and it compels me to consider how small I am in this universe. We’ve had clear skies here lately, so there has been plenty of stargazing.…
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Psalm 6: Hallelujah For Every Broken Heart
It was Friday at dusk when I went out to feed our 30-year-old horse, Amos. He was waiting a short distance away from his trough as I walked to the barn to get his food. He knows the routine. All the other animals were getting settled in before the sun had completely set. The fields…
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Sincerely Abandoned: Lifting Our Hands
My natural posture when worshipping is to lift my hands. Since I don’t like attention drawn to myself, this way of worship is done in seclusion only. What makes people want to raise their arms in praise? Children take this position when they want to be held. They temporarily abandon the desire to be independent…
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It’s a Beautiful Day
I woke up yesterday morning to another rainy day. I’ve worn rain boots all week. The fields have been saturated with rain puddles, mud,…and other cattle excrements. I have a blister on my heel, and truth be told, I’m simply ready to get back into my cowboy boots. I’m tired of the sludge, annoyed that…
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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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Grateful
It was cold and relentlessly rainy yesterday. I wasn’t at all productive and there’s a tendency to feel guilty about it. The truth is, I love rainy days. Nestled in our tiny RV, the drumming sound of raindrops surrounded me and I thought, “How often do I get to do this?” There have been many times…
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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…
Eyes Upon Jesus 