The Pat and Barb Verly family and their 5 children, in laws and grandkids along with many prayer warriors have been drawn together by John's cancer... sharing daily for 8 months started this blog- Family Soul Story - Our faith, family, farm and now our cancer journey called HEALING have colored and deepened our world. WE continue to share and depend on the support of our prayer warrior community, that has lowered us into the Lord's presence for His healing!
Luke thinks that tomatoes that were on the vine just minutes before are good enough to take a big juicy bite! Ruth and I had the joy of having Pat's mom out to help us can our usual 3 batches of tomato soup - another 43 1/2 quarts! Making close to 90 quarts of tomato soup so far this year. Today we added another family to our 6 as we made some for great grandma too - putting them in pints.
Pat's mom will be 95 in a month from today! She comes over and she is always wanting to be busy... when she finishes with one job - like cleaning onions on to the next of putting through the juice. Rose was very interested and did some of the stirring.
Rose, this is the lady that taught me all I know about canning. She listened on the party line and got this soup recipe over 80 years ago! You are very blessed to be able to spend this time with her.
Our big pot is getting more and more full... we did fill it to the very top once again!
Rose stirs and notices the bubbles, it is so close to the top.
Luke up from a nice nap and eating his lunch watching mom just before she puts our soup in the 3 waiting canners... 43 yummy quarts of soup! In morning prayer this morning before we started working there was much talk about how The Word/Christ in His Gospel and Epistles and foretold in the OT... armed with The Word we can cut through all that is around us of the world and we can find The Truth and live a good life.
Servant of God Elizabeth Leseur writes: Meditation is the gathering of oneself into the very depths of one's being to the point where, in the silencing of outward things , God is found. There you will find the source of all good (God), strength, beauty (God). There you will strengthen yourself in the thought of what is eternal in preparation for the struggle; and there you will understand, as your ideal becomes daily more clearly defined, both your own weakness and all that you can do here below in the cause of good.
Meditating and taking in His Word... we find the narrow path!
Ruth and her grandma - "You used to crawl into bed with grandpa and I each morning while your mom and dad milked cows, Ruth." "I remember looking up at the light that hung over your bed, grandma."
Ruth got her first eggs from her chickens yesterday! Grandma shared some of her chicken stories with Ruth. Grandma would get 300 pullets each spring - Ruth got 12... there is a bit of a difference there. But grandma just laughed out loud when Ruth told her that she will bring her some eggs from her chickens. Such a blessing to share our lives and work together making our food. http://familyfarmexperience.blogspot.com/ Ruth just shared the recipe and job on her blog...
A break in the canning to cut grandpa's hair and Luke thought the vegetables tasted good.
Working beside the lady that taught me all I know! So blessed to still have her in our lives, and still wanting to come out and share this special time with us!
Jesus, we are so blessed to have our lives on the farm filled with all the goodness of growing food and then making wonderful things together from it. Sharing the time and the stories of from times past and present. To have young and old sharing the day and hearing the little ones saying "yum-yum" and the lids snap down after a long day's hot work! It was so good to hear the Word from the first reading and the Gospel still in my heart, soul, and mind - knowing that Jesus is in control of my life and "the Lord lifts up all who are falling and raises up all those who are bowed down." Psalm 145 from mass today which is a Hallel Psalm! Jesus, thank you for a good day of faith/family/farm! Jesus, we trust in YOU. Amen and Hallelujah
She said that she was rusty putting on lids and rings - "It has been a long time."
Bless-bless, Barbara Luke the crazy-Catholic, who learned about being a farm wife at the feet of this amazing lady, Anna Louwagie Verly!
"Who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
I Cor 2:16 The first reading from mass today.
I think of Bernadette and her sunflower dress when I see this...
My biggest tomato picking - I got 10 off of one plant!
Beautiful morning for picking 2 brimming pails of red tomatoes!
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