When The Sun Shines

Finish your outdoor work

and get your fields ready;

after that, build your house.

                        Proverbs 24:27

We have been outside, soaking up the vitamin D, using those forgotten muscles that are needed for pulling weeds, and getting the greenhouse ready for seeds. Tonight we got another estimate on clearing the back of our property. Someday soon we'll have a lot more sunshine for a bigger garden, a nice fenced pasture for a couple of cows, and a barn full of hay.  It sounds like I'm dreaming, and I am - but it is getting really close to coming true.  :)

Have a great week!

Blessings,

Red

Church With My Dad

My Dad is a man of faith. Real faith. Deep faith.  An amazing man. Truly amazing.
Years ago he had to have a hip replaced and ended up with a blood clot in his lung. The clot was dissolved and the new hip was marvelous, but life changed after that. Soon the knees became bone on bone, but the doctors would not operate because of the history of blot clots.  Still my Dad refused to give in to a wheelchair. He lives in a great deal of pain and yet praises God joyfully.

One of his biggest regrets is not being able to attend church very often anymore.  He has a small travel chair that works similar to a real wheelchair, but it is not easy for my Mom to maneuver.  So yesterday my sister and I loaded him in the car and off  to church we went.

We got there between services and that gave Dad an opportunity to visit with many friends he hasn't seen in quite awhile.  One of those friends helped us get him situated in the sanctuary just in time for the beginning of the service.  He was beaming.  It was so obvious that he was thrilled to be there.

The sermon was excellent and the congregation was invited to come forward to take communion.  We waited until most of the people were through the lines and then my sister wheeled my Dad down the aisle to the table holding the silver trays.  The table was too high for him to reach and so I was able to serve my Dad communion.  It was incredibly emotional.  My sister and I were streaming tears as she pushed his chair back up the aisle to return to our seats.

The rest of the service was powerful and uplifting, and by the time it was over we all knew it was a day we would never forget.  What a gift to all of us. God is so good.

Blessings,
Red

Only The Left have Rights

Have you noticed?
They can take God out of our schools because they have the right not to hear about Him, but we don't have the right to exercise our religious beliefs?
They can push around old people, attack churches and get people fired from their jobs, but if we call them faggots it's a hate crime?
They have the right to murder the unborn and we don't have the right to not pay for it with our tax dollars?
They can call George Bush any number of vile names, but if we even disagree with Obama we are called racists?

The list goes on and on.

The vocal minority has changed the landscape of our government and our country while the silent majority sat back and did nothing (myself included). It's time for a REAL change, and not the kind Obama is shoving down our throats. It's time for Conservatives to stand up and make some noise. A LOT of noise - without ceasing. Let's become the squeaky wheel that finally gets oiled or we will have no country left. What we will have is a Left Country.
Is that what we want to leave our children? I think not.