Farming
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moreHow to Live Through the Really Hard Storms
On Monday, May 20 th, 2013{because my heart is with all the folks living through all kinds of bad storms this spring…} ‘If God really works in everything — then why don’t we thank Him for everything?” She asks me this straight out. My daughter, Hope, and I, we sit in the truck on the field’s hem, waiting to give the Farmer his lunch. The Farmer’s planting bean seeds into ea...
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moreSimply 3 Words For Every Day
On Wednesday, May 15 th, 2013He’d set the alarm for 1 AM on a Monday morning because sometimes a man has to do what he has to do. He’d slept the rest of a Farmer on the Lord’s Day. Then hauled to the fields in the pitch dark just as soon as Monday feebly birthed. Before that sun finally dragged up, he had a whole field worked up and half a ton of dirt ground into his jeans. ...
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moreBecause When it’s a Bummer, it might be Perfect
On Tuesday, March 05 th, 2013Wept with this woman. Prayed with this woman. Laughed loud with this woman. Serving alongside Sheila Walsh with Women of Faith, I’ve been changed by the heart of this woman for Jesus. Couldn’t love her more. While I’ll be sharing Letters to the Wounded {#1} later this week, today, Sheila Walsh slips into this quiet corner with words for all the wounded...
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moreGod Made a Mother and You — So Farmer On!
On Monday, February 04 th, 2013I sat beside a girl in Mr. Seuter’s grade nine math class who said she was getting out of here. She was getting out of this no name little farming town and she was getting out of this hick place with its hick boys and she was getting free of everything her daddy ever was. I knew her daddy. He was known for planting row...
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more2012: A Year in Photos {and 7 Links for 2013}
On Saturday, December 29 th, 2012From calendar page to calendar page, the moments are our lives and the years are blinks. {just a few photos from the farm and 2012:} ...
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moreThe Real Truth about the Real First Thanksgiving {Free Printable}
On Friday, November 02 nd, 2012That field of beans west of the barn, it looked gaunt come end of October, bean pods all hanging like bony ribs. Whenever the wind sighed, the whole field just rattled skinny. That’s how my Dad always spoke of a railish man, that you could count his ribs. Nothing in me wanted to count those beans, know the yield, from this spare field. When the Farmer rolled...
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moreHow Do You Find Joy? {One Thousand Gifts Small Group DVD Study}
On Thursday, October 25 th, 2012Come to the farm? Would you? Remember this — when things were afoot on the farm and my knees wouldn’t stop knocking and I whispered, Please pray? — and you did? It’s ready now! And it was all our gift for you! We prayed hard and we thought of the...
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moreThe Best Way to Handle Hunger Cravings {The Pumpkin Cannon Edition: Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, September 28 th, 2012The men brought the pumpkin cannon. And all the church ladies brought pie, 160 pies. We made peach. And my brother rolled out of bed in the 2 am dark to begin the pig roast under stars. ...
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moreThe 1 Habit We Can’t Afford to Forget
On Wednesday, September 12 th, 2012It’s after the Farmer checks over the combine that I crawl in the cab, in beside him in that ratty old t-shirt. Something about a man who wears his work with no shame. “Ride a few rounds with me?” The engine’s drowning out that quiet voice of his. I sit closer, my shoulder pressing against his. ...
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moreThe Very Best Way to Schedule Your Life {The Law of Life}
On Thursday, August 09 th, 2012I confess, it felt counter-intuitive—just plain wrong. Just plain, straight out wrong to bend over each strawberry plant, press the delicate white petals — and all subsequent hopes of fleshy scarlet sweet — press between thumb and index finger — and then just pluck it off. I had forced myself o...
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moreThe Light We Need to See Everyone In
On Friday, July 27 th, 2012Been praying this week for Amber and Seth Haines and their little Titus. I’ve been memorizing Sermon on the Mount, all of Matthew 5-7, with these earnest folks (and a whole community of memorizers!), and God’s got us on a journey. Seth, a lawyer, a mighty fine writer, good husband and praying father to four future men — he guest posts here with a few needful...
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moreWhen All Hope Feels Like a Drought
On Wednesday, July 25 th, 2012Aman can watch the sky like a plea. “And we didn’t get nothing — not one drop.” That’s what the farmer’s wife said to me before breakfast. How she headed home from town in a flat-out gully washer of a rain, thinking this was finally it — the whole dark sky like the ocean coming to fi...
