Farming
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moreA Letter For All the World’s Daughters
On Monday, July 23 rd, 2012I wouldn’t have gone to the gold fields if it wasn’t for you. If you hadn’t handed me Advil for my fever and sore throat, a glass of water for the Advil, a promise that it’d only be 10 minutes and I’d be sorry if I didn’t go to the fields. We brought the food you’d made for the men. One plate for your Dad in the combine and one plate fo...
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moreWhy Now is the Perfect Time
On Friday, July 06 th, 2012On the way into town, the boy told me the wheat was about ready. And I look across to the west and all those gold heads swaying yes — and I look over at him, elbow resting half out the window and all July’s heat blowing in, and none of this was supposed to happen this way. The Farmer had said yes, if any week would work, he had said this one would...
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morewhat’s been afoot this week on the Farm {Friday on the Farm}
On Friday, June 29 th, 2012And come Friday, after such a week, I’m very ready to curl up very quiet… Shalom, she’s has been staying close all week, her and Kai dangling their heads and goofy smiles into frames...
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moreWhen Everyone Else Seems to be Winning — and You feel like a bit of a Loser
On Tuesday, June 26 th, 2012And today dawns and we’ll try to get some photos of the happy crazy that’s afoot in this neck of the woods — so stay tuned! {Might you pray for the Farmer and I today?} So we’re pulling up another chair this morning on the front porch for some shimmering story-telling from fellow farmer’s wife and very good friend, Jennifer Dukes Lee — words ...
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moreWhen You need Rest …. {Fridays on the Farm}
On Friday, June 08 th, 2012When it grows loud in the corners of everything and the walls of the soul quake just a bit, I go and sit in the soil where the corn grows by His certain goodness and right out of the earth. Where the ...
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moreBecause Hard Days are White Horse Days
On Wednesday, May 30 th, 2012When that window shattered into 7 billion pieces, a sliver stuck my heart and maybe a sliver is all we ever have? It wasn’t so much that our farm boy had turned the tractor too sharp. It wasn’t that he’d backed the tractor into the auger of the wagon hitched behind him. It wasn’t even so much that the steel auger had slammed into the full window of the tractor — e...
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moreWhen You Feel like Your Life’s a Mess …. The Real Truth About Your Dirt
On Thursday, May 17 th, 2012When he walks through the kitchen with his hair showered clean but his face looking like that, I just have to laugh. “What?” he says. “Really, I showered, Mom, I did.” Levi stands indignant, hands on hip, and I nod half serious. “You showered?” “Yes, Mom! It’s only my clothes that are dirty.” He’s been picking stones ...
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moreWhy We Honor You This Mother’s Day: Because You Really Mother Thousands
On Friday, May 11 th, 2012Because there’s something about the sound of opening up a bag of seeds in spring. Something about holding a promise right there in the palm of your hand. And the Farmer’s whole tilled field, she’s laid right open, expectant and waiting. The Farmer’s got his Wranglers on and he’s got his hands into those seeds all like pearls and the man’s ...
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moreBest Books Review {Farm on Friday}
On Friday, May 04 th, 2012TThat’s what I tell Hope when she says she fell asleep reading a good book. “Falling asleep with a good book in your hands is about as close as you can get to someone rocking you to sleep.” And I wink and she laughs, “Is that why ...
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moreWhat Happens if You Really Believe… {Come to the Farm on Friday: Sermon on the Mount Video with hens}
On Friday, April 27 th, 2012Come to the farm on Friday? Mount the Mount with us? Consider the words of Jesus’s upending, uprighting Sermon … And come be the lamb that knows the Shepherd’s voice… the chick that tucks safe under the faithful offering of His wing. CLICK HERE TO COME TO OUR FARM: Watch the video with our hens & my attempt to rec...
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moreWhen You Want a Great Life Plan
On Thursday, April 26 th, 2012The day after Resurrection Sunday, day after the world stopped because God had risen up and walked out of the earth — his father came and sat at the table, and we hadn’t seen him in four months. We served the last of the lamb and the first of that spinach. And the Farmer sat at the table with his dad and they sit at the table and talk dirt and wheat and land and hor...
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moreHow to be glad: Friday on the Farm
On Friday, April 13 th, 2012“David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; He...
