It’s the dark of the night…you are alone…the storm winds are blowing…what do you do? This is life! We can find ourselves out at sea on a small boat…sitting in a hospital room…sitting in a courtroom…or staring at unpaid bills. But eventually everyone will find themselves in the dark, lonely place. As I was preparing …
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God School: Learn How To Have Beautiful Flowers
Would you like to learn how to have beautiful flowers in your yard? Maybe you have said, “I don’t have a green thumb like Mary.” You may even say, “I don’t have time to plant & water.” But what if Mary could show you another way you could have pretty flowers in your yard with …
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Law of the Farm: The Soil – Part 1
A few weeks ago, I went to Carlisle, Arkansas where my grandpa raised rice. This is one of his fields. Not only did this immigrant from Denmark learn to raise rice, but this is where he taught my dad to be an incredible farmer. The soil, or as my dad affectionately called it, the ground, …
Will It Be Enough?
I started using “Cliff Notes” in high school when we studied Shakespear & Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I used Cliff Notes because the material was hard to understand, I didn’t like to read, it took too much time and country boys don’t do things that are not manly. “Cliff Notes” enabled me to gleen enough information …
God School: “I Just Thought I Knew…”
I remember when I thought I had it down…all figured out. I was charting my own course. Poor grades and even flunking out of college after 3 years didn’t phase me. From age 18 – 37, I lived in my apex of brilliance. Failure was just part of the process. My theme song was “I …
God School: A Standard Of Measurement
Can you image if your builder decided that 10 inches would now be a foot? What if the aeronautical engineer that designed the plane you are flying on used his own values to measure the stress on the wings? Have you ever built something and thought it looked right, but it wasn’t? How did you …
Looking For Truth?
Truth…it’s getting harder to find. Never in mankind’s history have we had so much information. And now with AI, it is next to impossible to determine if what we see or read is true and real or something that has been manufactured. Not knowing creates uncertainty & anxiety. Uncertain & anxious is exactly how I …
Stuck!
This is a familiar situation on a rice farm at harvest. The field is soft from standing in water most of the summer. Many fields have soft spots. As a young lad growing up on my dad’s rice farm, I stuck a few tractors. But never like this. Never! Dad didn’t find anything funny about …
How Do You Respond?
Everyday…24/7…365 days a year, year after year the Bad News bombards us. One of the songs from the TV Show, Hee-Haw was, “If it weren’t for bad news, we would have no news at all.” Yes, there are bad & evil things happening but… How are you responding? We can follow the role models seen …
“Look It Up.”
As with any young lad, I had questions. But the response I really didn’t like was, “Go look it up.” First, I found libraries too warm and stuffy. They put me to sleep. Second, the Dewey Decimal System was too much like a jigsaw puzzle, I just wanted an answer with the least amount of …