I want to say something about this picture. But words won’t really come.
Maybe it says enough...
America. The Stars. The Light in the Darkness...
Yeah. That’s enough.
God is Good.
How I Decide to Vote...
How I decide to vote ... The picture says so much.
We seek God's way and follow biblical principle...
We are family... We work, play and pray together.
We are agriculture.... It is a way of life... It is about feeding our community and many others around the world.
We are stewards of land that we own. And we recognize that responsibility.
We have deep roots... generations ago many of our ancestors came to America from other countries and they held in high regard what it meant to be a caring citizen. We too see our privilege to offer opportunity to people from other lands, but it must be done in order and our borders should be secure for the generations of Americans to come.
I could go on... but I have to go to work... and I have to go vote.
ONE DAY...
It’s not just about coming out of the darkest night and hardest struggle into the light of the morning and the glory of victory, but about what God is doing with you, in you and through you while you’re there.
One day we shall see. One day.
"THE CRAZIEST DREAM"
It’s one of those days that my head hurts so bad I can’t think straight. Let alone see straight.
I didn’t sleep last night and had the craziest dreams in the couple hours that i did have my eyes closed.
The first thing Dad told me when I saw him this morning was some very sad news about a friend.
My heart fell and suddenly the dream I had was replaying in my mind.
I was on a ship. In the middle of the ocean. And it was storming. I think we were captives of some sort. And one from our group had been thrown overboard. I begged for someone to save him. And finally the “captain” or whoever he was- said that I could be “thrown over to help him.”
“Why do you want to save him?” He shouted.
“Because I love him! Because I care!”
“So go save him.” he said.
“But... I can’t swim..........Please send someone in who can...”
I’m not sure what happened next. But I woke up after being thrown over.
But someone else was there as well.... Who could swim. With a lifeboat.
Where that dream came from I have no idea. But maybe it has a lesson. Maybe we need to be a lifeline. Maybe we need to tell our story. Maybe we need to be willing to go into the storms... where instead of swimming... Jesus helps us walk on the water. Where Jesus is the lifeboat. There’s a lot of lost people out there struggling in the darkest nights who need to know that Jesus loves them. That there is hope. But all to often we come up with excuses.
“God, I don’t speak well!”
“God, I’m not good at that.”
“God, someone else would be better.”
If you’re a Christian you may not be called to “full time ministry”. As far as maybe working in Africa as a Missionary full time or as a Pastor. But if you’re a Christian then we absolutely are fully called to ministry. If we don’t have a heart for ministry then we have too soon forgotten what God has done for us. How He saved us. And that’s not fair to those in the ocean searching for hope.
I don’t care if you feed cows in the middle of nowhere or if you ride an elevator everyday with a bunch of strangers.
Be there. Listen. Call. Text. Tell them about Jesus. Love them. Like Jesus loves us all.
"SEEMED AGAINST US"
Everything was against us this afternoon when we crawled over the hill. From the wind, to the location of the antelope, to the slope of the hill, to the horses in the background.
We almost went home.
Then he moved. And we took a chance.
We ran, crawled and slid our way to where we thought he was. Finally we saw some horn tips and watched him bed down. We inched our way on top of him and waited. I prayed that if this was the buck that God had for me this year that He would just line things up and I’d get a good clean shot!
And then one thing after another lined up!From our location and the direction of wind just blowing our scent by him and a doe, to the horses moving out in the other direction, to a clean shot. I’m so thankful!
It wouldn’t of happened without my guide, Julia Reinhold! And Thanks to Danny Reinhold for coming and giving us a ride home! And special thanks to Kiersten Reinhold for helping me clean him!
God is good and I’m so thankful for the ways that He shows Himself to us.