What’s your default response to a problem? Growing up on the farm I had two primary tools to fix things, a sledgehammer to beat something into place or a cutting touch to cut my problem away. That would be my default way of life. I had a limited view of the problem. I chose what …
Category: Lessons From The Farm
Pecked To Death…
Did you know chickens can literally peck other chickens to death? Chickens are attracted to the blood of a wound. Also, when chickens are stressed, they become aggressive. Wow, sound familiar? This "pecking" also shows up in people. One of the warning signs is "grumbling". One of the most tragic losses of Blessings is recorded …
Lessons From The Farm: The Soil
Soil (dirt) is incredible. Its function in life is to grow something. Several years ago, I was to speak at a conference about organizational culture, the personality, or the heart, of an organization. Each of the participants received a small bag of dirt labeled, "Soil from my grandfather's farm, which has raised rice & soybeans …
Just Days Away From The Best Harvest Ever…
I remember how excited my dad was one year. “It’s the best crop I have ever had”, he said at the supper table that night. “We will be able to pay off everything and get ahead.” Two or three weeks later I noticed him drinking Mylanta like it was water…his ulcers were in full flame. …
“It’s Plantin’ Time!”
Because I grew up on a rice/soybean farm, I find the Principles of the Farm found in the Bible fascinating, true and very personal. # Farming is a process that requires: Most of your time & attention; Wise & deliberate choices; Relentless persistence, and Always keeping your focus on the purpose, the Harvest. # Seed …
The Further We Get From the Farm…The Less We Understand God.
In today's hi-tech, fast-paced, microwave world we have become conditioned to having everything NOW! But God did not start man this way. God started Adam working in the Garden. Growing up on a farm I learned life is a process...it takes almost a year of hard work to get a crop in. Right after harvest …
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Life Giving Rain Comes Out Of Storms
A farmer knows without rain there will be no crop. Rain is under control of God’s Sovereign Power. "He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from His storehouses." Psalm 135:7. “Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and …
Removing The Suckers…
I have described my dad as a man who could make a stick grow. A few years after his heart attack, resulting in retiring from rice farming, he decided to raise a "few" tomatoes. 15 acres of tomatoes. The same Principles of the Farm apply to tomato plants yet tomatoes are special. One special thing …
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