Busy Week

We have been busy getting ready for branding and docking this weekend.  Our annual event will bring about 30 people from the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming and South Dakota.

The first guest arrives on Wednesday and the rest will be here by Friday morning.  We are looking forward to seeing everyone again.

God's Best

 

 

 

God’s Best

God has His best things for the few

That dare to stand the test;

God has His second choice for those

Who will not have His best.

It is not always open ill

That risk the promised rest;

The Better often is the foe

That keeps us from the Best.

And others make the highest choice,

But when by trials pressed,

They shrink, they yield, they shun the cross,

And so they lose the best.

I want in this short life of mine,

As much as can be pressed

Of service true for God and man;

Help me to be my best.

Give me O Lord thy highest choice’

Let others take the rest,

Their good things have no charm for me,

For I have got thy Best.

Author Unknown

 



Willing To Be Wounded

I would like to share a devotional by Dr. David Jeremiah.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.  Proverbs 27:6

When George Whitefield, the eighteenth- century British evangelist, first sailed to America, he wrote in his journal that the ship's cook had a drinking problem.  When he was reproved about his sins, the cook boasted that he planned to reform his life two years before he died, but not before. Whitefield noted that the cook died six hours later.

No one likes to be reproved about sin, but a wise person listens and repents.  Indeed, Solomon said, "Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed (Proverbs 27:5). Not surprisingly, most of us love to give reproof more than we like to receive it.  But Solomon also said that the person who receives correction is considered wise (Proverbs 15:5).

As a Christian, humility is perhaps the top priority in being open to reproof.  God says He gives grace to the humble but resists the proud (James 4:6). That doesn't mean we have to be a doormat, but it means we are willing to receive godly reproof without becoming defensive and resentful.  If you were lost on a journey, wouldn't you appreciate the person who pointed you in the right direction?

Receiving reproof could be the first step in reaching the goals you've set for your life. 


I am so thankful for parents and siblings that love me.  Many comments made by them stayed with me and kept me on the right path.  Today I am married to a man that has the same dreams as I have.  Together and with God's help we will reach those dreams.

The Flood of 2011

We have just experienced the wettest spring that we can remember.  Highway 323 was closed for several days due to water running over the road.  Ranches and houses have been flooded.  Even so, we haven't been hit as hard as some of the other places in Montana where businesses are under water.

Summer Vacation

Time flies when one is having fun or working hard.  With only 8 1/2 days left, summer vacation is beginning to look like a reality.  I am impatiently waiting for the time that I can be home on the ranch with my husband for a whole three months.  I am sure that my posts will be more interesting when I can take pictures of our livestock and wild animals.  Until then, have a good two weeks.

Spring

We did receive about four inches of snow this week.  Chip and I were in Belle Fourche on Sunday; when we stepped outside after church, the biggest snowflakes that I have ever seen were falling.  Thankfully they melted as soon as they hit the ground.  (Will post a picture later.)

Another reason that I know that spring has arrived is that I picked a tick off of my clothes last night.  Ticks usually don't like me and so I am hoping that he was trying to get away from me, but I did throw him down the garbage disposal so that I won't see it again.  I hope!

Vacation is six hours away!

Spring Has Arrived

Spring has finally arrived in Montana which can be proven in several ways. It has been a long time in coming, but I believe that the birds are a sure sign of it. I arrived home Friday evening to the sounds of birds singing. There were at least a dozen Robins in our yard. Sunday, Chip and I went to Ekalaka and saw several flocks of cranes trying to fly north. The wind was sure messing with their flight. They were doing the wrap around thing. I told Chip that there are days that it might be faster to walk. This morning as I walked to school, I once again heard birds singing. A beautiful sound of spring!


Another sign of spring are the many calves that are showing up in pastures along the way. We have a couple dozen on the ground running around or napping in the beautiful sunshine. One mother cow was seen baby (calf) sitting at least a dozen calves. A cute sign of spring!

The last sign of spring that we have seen is all the work to do. Chip will soon be in the fields planting oats, and then there will be all the yard work to do such as mowing the lawn and watering the trees, and this year it will include putting log siding on the house. The tough sign of spring!

A sign of spring that we haven’t seen and very thankful that we haven’t is a spring blizzard. The past few years we have been hit hard with spring snowstorms. These are deadly on livestock, wildlife and people. We have had deer die in our hay yards. So far, the storms have gone north of us. We have received wind and rain. At this point it looks like I will make it home for Easter vacation. April 20th has been known to bring in a storm, but so far only rain is in the forecast.