I don't know if you might remember these shots from our instagram last year. They are KILLING ME! The arrival of our first lambs is still about 2 weeks away, BUT I AM SO READY!!!!!!! Spring is just around the corner; I can feel it! The excitement and anticipation for this next year is almost more than we can stand! HOPE. It's what gets us out of bed in the morning and enables our hearts to rejoice in every season, even the dark wintery ones.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and have started this 2022 season ready to kick honeybuns! For me January began with prayer and fasting, seeking to know what God has for us in the new year and opening my heart to hear from him. It was FOR SURE a challenge to eat only fruits and veggies for a month, but I feel so refreshed. Psalm 199:133 "Establish my footsteps in your word, and do not let iniquity have dominion over me!" This is my prayer for 2022, that God would establish our footsteps in his word, our lifeline and hope in all circumstances. Trying to pass on hope that we don't have, compassion that we haven't experienced, and forgiveness that we haven't understood for ourselves is like trying to water parched soil from an empty well. Stressful, tiring, and very sadly ineffective. I have been there more than I'd like to admit. Boy, there is a lot of parched soil out there right now, am I right?!!! I so desperately need reminders of God's deep and unfailing love in order to refresh the parched and weary souls around me, or I'll just get heat stroke myself. Thank goodness, his mercies are new every morning.
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HELLOI'm Lydia. Mom to one wild barefoot fluffy headed toddler, a herd of cows, flock of sheep, a group of too many chickens and a neglected garden that against all odds, survives. Married to a wonderful husband with an equal number of titles and jobs...Dad, bro, (also as in, "bro, get over here gimme a hug") hydro-electric power plant mechanic, volunteer firefighter, fixer of all things with wheels and engines. (Ya, I'm proud of him.) Farm life, family, coffee, and Jesus make my world go round. Archives
August 2023
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