Sunday, May 22, 2011

Walking on Cloud 9

Knowing the way I truly enjoy farm stuff (blessings that sometimes happen in the midst of the chaotic head aches) one might think it is one of the awesome things that have happened around here on the farm lately that makes me walk on cloud 9. There would be plenty of reason. First of all a couple weeks ago, the first night of Mr. Roberts coming, Neo informed me we had a feral bee colony in my bedroom eaves! Wild bees! We find them three weeks before our package bees come in. If we fail with the domestic ones, we have the real McCoy's in my bedroom eaves. I feel so blessed! :-D :-D :-D

Another small blessing I'm excited about is that same week on Thurs., our cows decided that grass was greener on the other side of the channel. On another man's land. Ron decides he'll deal with it later & goes on to kick boxing. We get an out of the blue email from the man who owns the land (whom we don't know & I guess he found us on the net) that our cows are laying in his farmer's wheat that is ready for harvest. The next day it rains. Just about all the mommas have calves on their sides, so they're not coming back across that full rushing channel. It all becomes a big head ache as Ron has to disassemble the corral & move it to the other man's land, re-assemble, & try to coax them into it. Of course only a few fall for it. So Sunday morning he & Cory are up at 5am before church trying to load them up to bring them home, but they can't be found anywhere. They search for 2 hours. Finally after walking all over the back 40, they give up & come home to be greeted by our dear cows who are lazily enjoying their neglected pastures. On the trip to gather the corrals, Ron discovers a semi-rare herb we had in abundance in our pastures a couple years ago, but it all died. When Macrae was a baby he had croup that Hannah cured in 3 days with an herb poultice mainly made of this herb. It was sorely missed this past winter. So we were able to dig up a few plants to transplant over here. Oh, I do love seeing these. It's called mullein and it is tall & fuzzy. Yeah, that was a real blessing. I have a new appreciation for botany because of Hannah's herbal interests. Road side 'weeds' are not the same anymore & I might look like a drunk driver scanning the sides for some rare treasure of a find.
So here is my, to borrow an expression from another culture of people, 'shot in the arm.' (In my case I guess it would be a B12 shot.)
After the Friday night young people's meeting with Mr. Roberts,
I am greeted by Ruth loudly singing this song Saturday morning.


Yeah, that was a real cloud 9 experience for a mom. Hope.
Maybe God will save the seeds of His servant's womb.
At our church we don't believe in what I call the 'magic formula prayer.' You know, say these 4 lines & you got your 'fire insurance' from hell, no matter how you live.


My eldest Hannah, in a ripe wheat field.

(Is she 'ripe?')

Dear Ruth & Neo
Macrae has a new haircut!!
My 'little me', Hallel

That 'tweet baby!! Ivy Colleen
That is Ruth's hand on the side of her head, not her ear ;)
Oh, PRECIOUS gummy grins!!

Monday, May 2, 2011

TOO TWEET

Some more of my favorite tweets, mostly from Spurgeon. I wonder is my pastor one who will be as great as Spurgeon if most his sayings are original. He gleans for us from the barley fields..

Submission to Christ without submission to the Scriptures is submission to a self-made Christ, not submission to Christ.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. -

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. -

There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together.

If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin -

"Sin is so much more than a slip-up. It is a clear statement that we value the satisfaction of our desires more than God."

Sanctification is the great open separator of Christians from the world!

If grace does not make you to differ from your own surroundings, is it really grace at all?


Sin is the pleasure of the false Christian; it is the grief of the real lover of Christ.

If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that. -

In seasons of severe trial, the hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. -

In seasons of severe trial, the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand -


"Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. " John Owen


A wise man does at first what a fool does at last

"If you're not a member of a local church, you're like a brick being kicked down the street screaming 'I'm a house!"


Pride is a thing which should be unnatural to us, for we have nothing to be proud of