Why I’m Not Looking Forward to Christmas
I’m sitting in a coffee shop on a chilly day a week or so after Thanksgiving pondering a question:
Is it okay to love Jesus but dread Christmas?
The Work
We had the buyer, but there was still a ton of work to do – practically and emotionally. Here’s some insight on that journey…
The “Why”
Why the hell would you sell the farm?
I can only speak for myself in answer to that question – even though this was a family decision. And as I reflected over the last season, I was a little surprised to discover that it was years in the making.
Cry
So let me put it out there right from the beginning: I did a lot of crying this summer. The reasons for that will unfold over the next few posts as I tell the story of a real inflection point in the life of our family.
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road. Those of you who have followed these posts over the years know what a marvelous pause the farm is in the life of our family. Time seems to get so compressed in the weeks before Christmas and all of the preparations and engagements that compel us […]
Day #225 – Why I Clicked…
Editor’s note: Many of you have enjoyed my Pic of the Day for quite a few years now. I’m starting something new to select certain images and give a little more backstory on why I chose to share it. Let’s see how this goes! I hope you enjoy it… Day #225/365: The corn crop, leaves […]
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road, and the tired December sun has given up its fight to burn through the cloud cover. The dreariness of the day makes the sky almost indistinguishable from the snow covered fields were it not for the trees along the fence line. From a distance, everything has […]
Every Day is WDsD
My Facebook feed has been blowing up over the past 24 hours with all kinds of videos, images and well wishes from our community. It started last night with a video from a family that has been walking alongside us – then a text message from the principal of Julia’s school telling all of the […]
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road; and like a large part of the Midwest, we’re experiencing an unexpected heat wave. With the last several days of unseasonable warmth, I’m pretty sure the newly planted wheat crop doesn’t know what to do. After a blustery night of rain, the clouds broke and the […]
Christmas Greetings from the Farm
It’s Christmas Eve at the farm on Willow Road. We’ve had some unseasonably warm weather here over the last few days with a lot of rain and mist on the fields – fallow except for those planted with winter wheat. We saw our neighbor Jim Laramie earlier, who stopped by with the most amazing homemade […]