I love this picture I borrowed from Ruth! Ruth's blog - http://familyfarmexperience.blogspot.com/ Now that is a real switch, for me to borrow pictures from Ruth! I have so ruined Ruth with my obsession with pictures that she usually hasn't had her camera along. But now with her blogging about the family farm - she has taken up picture taking and having her camera with her. A couple days ago I was in the house with her two youngest and missed this special time of moving the calves and cows into a new spot with two calf huts and fresh bedding. Simon is not usually an animal guy - he by far is into equipment and machinery and how it all works- but inside the quiet of a calf hut Simon and this adorable brindle face calf seemed to have an encounter of the gentle kind! Simon came in the house saying that he liked the calf shelter and now I see why. We have had 12 calves since noon yesterday including a set of twins! LIFE is bursting forth and to look out and see 40 degrees and now approaching 50... well, we all are smiling and so ready for this! Yes, the mud is following the melting snow, and we just smile and trudge through it. Ruth said Rose went out with her rubber boots this morning, and she fully expects to find her covered in mud!
Another borrowed picture from Ruth's blog! This is so much fun! But I must say I feel sad when I miss being outside with the grandkids having this kind of fun in the spring weather!
I love the Gospel today - Matthew 25! Yet, it is a tough one that makes you take an inventory of how we are doing with - "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, and stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me." "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." Yes, Lord, we need to care for the needs of all those we encounter in our lives - especially the small, weak, poor, helpless, hopeless, blind, lame, crippled, sick, homeless, lost, alone, miserable, hurt, broken, cut to the heart, addicted, misled, filled with darkness and shame...these may be seen in them physically, mentally, and spiritually...all those in our lives, O Lord, that need YOU! We all need YOU, O Lord! May your Spirit of Living water well up within us and wash over those around us with your Goodness and LIFE eternal! Be with us this busy day with all the LIFE around us - kids, grandkids, new calves learning how to be healthy and happy with the care of the farmers here! Jesus, we trust in YOU. Amen and Hallelujah!
Bless-bless, Barbara Luke
"Let the words of my mouth and the thought of my heart find favor before you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life." Psalm 19 from mass today read around the world and inflaming our hearts, minds and souls!
Danielle Rose - Wonderfully made
Danielle Rose - the Saint that is just me
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