He stands 6 feet tall so that is probably at my shoulders as I am 5 inches shorter than that. The corn is refreshed and will grow like crazy now with the heat and humidity! Corn growing weather as the farmers hope and pray for!
Farmer Pat out standing in his field and that is true in all ways!
Lots of grass for the cows and calves - chest high grass on the cows and nose high on the calves!
Nothing more peaceful than this sight to us. A lot of our summers going to check on the cows and calves on pasture in the evenings was our family vacation. We would pile the kids in the back of the pickup and just go out there and watch the cows and calves eating grass, nursing and drinking out of the creek. A scene and verse right out of the Psalms!
Last night dad and I read this verse in Evening prayer and both were rejoicing at how that is lived out by us here on the farm!
"Let our barns be filled to overflowing *
with crops of every kind;
our sheep increasing by thousands, †
myriads of sheep in our fields, *
our cattle heavy with young,"
Psalm 144
Back out on the porch for our rosary and chaplet at 3p! Truly this is our happy place together as we watch the clouds overhead and the corn fields all around us grow with each new day.
Dad leading our prayer - we have it all down to a shared prayer where he leads and I follow and then on to the chaplet where we pray for our dead and for those that need special prayers for healing!
Today in the Gospel from Matthew 8 - Jesus heals the leper...
When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.
And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said,
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”
He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,
“I will do it. Be made clean.”
His leprosy was cleansed immediately.
Then Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one,
but go show yourself to the priest,
and offer the gift that Moses prescribed;
that will be proof for them.”
So true that Our Lord does not allow social distancing to keep him away from us! Leprosy was not to be touched, yet he did touch him and heal him. Jesus, loves us so much and approaches us if only we ask him with no reservations or hesitation. "I will do it. Be made clean." He awaits us in the confessional!
A sign of dad doing OK for now - back at his desk handling his finances.
Farmer Pat doing his morning routine before we got the corn field pictures for Ruth.
Ruth's chickens this morning - looks like lots of eggs for their family in a few weeks!
David's ducks make such a happy sound in the fresh cool water that Pat filled the pool with for them.
Jesus, thank you for the rain for the crops and our life on the farm feeding the world. Thank you for your undying love for us and how you reach out to us in our sinfulness and weakness and need. May we find ourselves washed clean as we hear you speaking to us through the priest. "I forgive you of your sins. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of The Holy Spirit." Thank you, Jesus! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
Fox tails on the way to the chickens each day - I call it kitty grass and find it quite special.
Kind of beautiful to this city girl now a farm wife for 42 years! Each day of our marriage is described as "never a dull moment!" Bless-bless, Barbara

ANXIOUS? PLACE YOUR CARES IN THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
She fills me with peace as the beads are always with me and flood me with her help and concern for all my needs on this crazy journey I am on!

My rosary each day is for my children and their children! Always on my heart and so blessed to learn at their feet! thank you, Jesus!
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Nancy's virtues of the Rosary!











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