After I retired, I worked with the leadership teams of non-profit organizations. I always started by interviewing the members who would go through the training. This gave me a clear picture of the needs of the organization. In every organization I found the same dominant need. The difficulty of connecting with people. One afternoon my …
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Can I Trust It?
I never thought too much about it before… grab bars are for old people. Welp, I am moving into that phase of life. When we travel, grab bars are one of the first things I look for. In the last 44 days Mary & I have been away from home 22 nights. Nothing causes me …
Law Of The Farm: He Plowed The Beans Up…
A few days after the field of soybeans was planted it rained. It rained so much it flooded the field. Thankfully, we had several days of warm sunshine and wind to dry out the field. I remember the afternoon I walked with dad over the field. It had spotty green patches because only about half …
Protected
I remember going with my mother to her friend’s house. Her friend had called and said, “Come over and see my living room, Carpenter’s just delivered my new furniture.” I went with mom to her friend’s house. I could tell when she met us at the door she was surprised to see me, a 10-year-old …
Where Are You Going?
One of the greatest life differences I recognize since I have retired is…I see things I never noticed before. When I worked, I worked. I woke up working and went to sleep working. I was addicted to multiple tasks, “get ’er done,” BUSY! For years I wore “Busy” as a badge of honor & prestige. …
Law Of The Farm: Do It Even When The Circumstances Are Not Great
Each crop season my dad did his part. He prepared the ground. He maintained his equipment. He used his God-given skills & knowledge to make good decisions throughout the crop year. He recognized what he could control and what he could not. But those things we can’t control…they throw me for a loop so many …
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In My Gut I Know This Is Not Right…
My dear friend who writes weekly “life Application Messages” wrote Monday about a lost delivery driver in Woodville, Mississippi. Seems the driver had followed the instructions from his phone to find a business in the town of 1,000 people. We exchanged texts back & forth about how the “lil” person in our phone can take …
Law of the Farm: It’s A Process
One of the unforgiving facts of the farm is...it cannot be hurried. A farmer cannot fly out of bed with his hair-on-fire, run out to the field, jam seeds in the ground, and expect a harvest the next day. You can stand over the planted seed screaming & yelling about your desperate situation, but the …
“What Are You Fishing With?”
I’m not the best fisherman. In fact, I have several fishing stories about not catching fish while being with guys, and grandchildren, who do. One time a friend, after catching a bunch of slab crappie said, “let’s trade rigs,” you guessed it, he caught fish on my rig and his rig went silent, I like …
“My Dog Died”
They, our four-legged children, become family members. They meet us at the door with their happy bark, wagging tails and a lick to welcome us home. They forgive us when we lose our temper. They can read our minds, and they even know our darkest secrets. Most of all they love us…even when we are …
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