I went out to check cows about 2 and could see in the heifer lot that there was two calving. I made my way around and got to the first heifer where the calf was mostly out except for the back legs. I noticed that the tongue was swollen and to be honest, the eye looked very lifeless. I quickly pulled the calf the rest of the way and started cleaning out the nose and mouth.
The heifer jumped up and took off and It was just me and this lifeless calf just trying to get a breath. It wasn’t there. 
I felt for a heartbeat. There was nothing. 

It was my heifer and considering how my record had been going I wasn’t too surprised that a seemingly perfectly fine situation would end with a dead calf in my name. 
I was doing all I could and getting ready for mouth to mouth in hopes that there was still a chance. I felt the heart and prayed. “God, please just help this calf!”

Looked for a breath and got down face to face. The calf jerked. 

Then...
There was a heartbeat. 
A heartbeat that got stronger with each beat.
I leaned down and put my mouth to the calf’s nose. There was a slight breath. 

I started to rub it’s neck. I had to try to get this calf to believe it was alive! 

Then all of a sudden the other cow that was down a little ways away was on me and looking for a calf! 
I slowly moved away and let her at it! She went to licking and loving and the calf slowly got some life back into it!

I called for some help to get the heifer rounded up and got her and the calf in the Barn where after a little coaxing she went to licking her baby. And the other cow went and had her own calf.

It was reason to smile.

I don’t know what you’ll take from this. But it’s kinda what I needed today.

Whatever it is that you’ve been praying for... keep praying. God’s timing and His answers may not always be exactly like we would like. But keep trusting. Keep hoping. Keep seeking. Sometimes He uses others to step in and help give us a breath. A breath even to just keep trying. Encouragement to live and thrive. 
But He always sees. And He always cares. And He always answers.

Everything about this little experience today gave me hope and a vision of a God that is bigger than anything this ol’ would can dream up.
I’m so thankful and so very blessed. 
Keep praying my friends! Keep your eyes wide open for the answers! And keep the faith... But not to yourself 

And the Lord said “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
Jeremiah 33:3