The Power of a Spiritual Legacy
Introducing this Week’s Guest Every writer can look back to the start of their career and identify that handful of encouraging people who came alongside them, helping them learn and grow in their craft. When I …
Introducing this Week’s Guest Every writer can look back to the start of their career and identify that handful of encouraging people who came alongside them, helping them learn and grow in their craft. When I …
What a privilege it is to share a guest post from one of my favorite Christian writers (boy, how this group has expanded the past few years), Mrs. Diana Derringer. In addition to be a lover …
Many Christian friends have shared how they employ the concept of Prayer Walking, where they pray and meditate as they stroll down a quiet nature trail or country road. Not farmers and ranchers. If we’re walking …
There’s always a bit of melancholy as you pull away from the livestock auction, feedlot, or processor. You realize that in most cases, certain death awaits the animals you so lovingly nurtured, doctored, fed, protected, and …
It’s springtime around the Cross-Dubya; and as some of you may have noticed, planting has consumed much of my life lately. Sowing gardens, pastures, and fields, we’ve put a lot of seed in the ground this …
This year, with store shelves getting emptier each week, costs skyrocketing, and uncertainty all around us, I decided it was time to do some gardening again. Replacing Ms. Diane’s old rose garden outside the bedroom window …
“Lord, I know we can’t save them all, but won’t You give me this one?” How often have I prayed this since the first calf was born here on our Cross-Dubya ranch? From an analytical perspective, …
Most farmers I know don’t think in terms of degrees, minutes, and seconds. We don’t much concern ourselves with converting between true and magnetic north, or the angle of declination. Our goal is to plow a …
Sometimes God uses the most common things to teach us uncommon lessons. This is one of those times. Like most things since January 2021, seed has become less available and its price has skyrocketed. In planning …
Who could’ve imagined I would get this excited over 11 apples. Were they the best apples I ever tasted? I’m certain they were. Now it might just be because it took me eight years to get …