Comments on: The Gift Of Freedom http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/ The thoughts and journal of a Christian farm family. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:40:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Northern Farmer Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:51:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-458 KSMM, To tell you the truth I didn't read your two chapters until just before I emailed you.This post just came as I was writting just as most do. I had no idea what I was writing until it came. This happens a good portion of the time. JFC, I tried pole jumping once in high school. The law of gravity won. I have a deep respect for your daughter's abilities. I'm better at being a hockey goaly or something like that :) KSMM,
To tell you the truth I didn’t read your two chapters until just before I emailed you.This post just came as I was writting just as most do. I had no idea what I was writing until it came. This happens a good portion of the time.

JFC,
I tried pole jumping once in high school. The law of gravity won. I have a deep respect for your daughter’s abilities. I’m better at being a hockey goaly or something like that :)

]]> By: JFC http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-457 JFC Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:47:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-457 NF, There's no way I could pole vault like that, either. I do okay playing baseball, football, basketball, even track events like 400m and long jump (at least in the old days), but to have the upper body strength to bend a long pole, and then have it catapult you over a bar, all the while maintaining control so that you don't land on your head on the wrong side of the bar ... no way. Even in my prime, there's no way I coulda' done that! I might get motivated to jump a fence if a bull was chasing me, though. JFC NF,

There’s no way I could pole vault like that, either. I do okay playing baseball, football, basketball, even track events like 400m and long jump (at least in the old days), but to have the upper body strength to bend a long pole, and then have it catapult you over a bar, all the while maintaining control so that you don’t land on your head on the wrong side of the bar … no way. Even in my prime, there’s no way I coulda’ done that!

I might get motivated to jump a fence if a bull was chasing me, though.

JFC

]]> By: KSmilkmaid http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-456 KSmilkmaid Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-456 Hmmm....did you write before or after you read what I sent. This sounds like you agree. You say it better than I did in those first few chapters. In fact, You said everything I took two chapters to say in just two paragraphs. Talk about economy of the written word. I sense a power behind your words here. I a so thrilled to see the truth spoken and we can speak it with confidence when we are doing it the Lord's way. Now off to study how to embrace brevity. OH ratz...I just don't have it in me. I too talkative. Blessings Tom!!!! Hmmm….did you write before or after you read what I sent. This sounds like you agree. You say it better than I did in those first few chapters. In fact, You said everything I took two chapters to say in just two paragraphs. Talk about economy of the written word.
I sense a power behind your words here. I a so thrilled to see the truth spoken and we can speak it with confidence when we are doing it the Lord’s way.

Now off to study how to embrace brevity. OH ratz…I just don’t have it in me. I too talkative.

Blessings Tom!!!!

]]> By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Northern Farmer Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:51:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-455 JFC, Thanks, and I seen that picture of your daughter pole vaulting, boy, I couldn't do that. Nearest I ever came was jumping over a fence with a bull in hot persuit. HH, "We consume much and produce little; we get depressed, and depression is actually dangerous and destructive..." Bingo! That's hitting the nail on the head.."We consume much and produce little" I couldn't agree more. A consumer society, a me, me society, shove God out of the way, and what happens, well to sum it up like the Bible would, death. JFC,
Thanks, and I seen that picture of your daughter pole vaulting, boy, I couldn’t do that. Nearest I ever came was jumping over a fence with a bull in hot persuit.

HH,
“We consume much and produce little; we get depressed, and depression is actually dangerous and destructive…”

Bingo! That’s hitting the nail on the head..”We consume much and produce little” I couldn’t agree more. A consumer society, a me, me society, shove God out of the way, and what happens, well to sum it up like the Bible would, death.

]]> By: HomesteadHerbs http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-454 HomesteadHerbs Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-454 Oh! I so know what you're talking about! For a very long time, I did as society expected- college, grad school, corporate job, car payments, house payments, toys purchased with debt, extra-curricular activities, (I never did take a vacation in a beach resort somewhere exotic though :-( ). I never felt, and was, so restricted and pressured. When I started living a Godly directed life, things became so much simpler and freer. Slowly but surely, all that baggage and extras have and are being eliminated and there is so much joy in our lives! I just read Elisabeth Elliot's devotion for the day and she writes about boredom. "we waste our time, our money, and our energies when we pursue so frantically the pleasures which we hope will bring us relief from boredom. We end up bored with everything and everybody. Work which can be joyful if accepted as a part of the eternal order and a means to serve, becomes only drudgery. Our pettiest difficulties, not to mention our big ones, are cause for nothing but complaint and self-pity. All circumstances not deliberately arranged by us look like obstacles to be rid of. We consume much and produce little; we get depressed, and depression is actually dangerous and destructive...."Godliness with contentment is great gain.'' Those words were written a long time ago to a young man by an older man who had experienced almost the gamut of human suffering, including being chained day and night to a prison guard. Contentment is another word which has fallen into disuse. We think of it, perhaps, in connection with cows--the best milk comes from contented ones, doesn't it?--but it doesn't take much to content a cow. Peace and fodder are probably all it asks. We are not cows. What does it take to content us? How could Paul, after what he had been through, write as he did to Timothy?" The current world culture has everyone so restricted with worldly expectations and restrictions, they are bored to tears! There is such freedom in God's restrictions and expectations! A Godly life is a life of joy and contentment! Oh! I so know what you’re talking about! For a very long time, I did as society expected- college, grad school, corporate job, car payments, house payments, toys purchased with debt, extra-curricular activities, (I never did take a vacation in a beach resort somewhere exotic though :-( ). I never felt, and was, so restricted and pressured. When I started living a Godly directed life, things became so much simpler and freer. Slowly but surely, all that baggage and extras have and are being eliminated and there is so much joy in our lives!

I just read Elisabeth Elliot’s devotion for the day and she writes about boredom. “we waste our time, our money, and our energies when we pursue so frantically the pleasures which we hope will bring us relief from boredom. We end up bored with everything and everybody. Work which can be joyful if accepted as a part of the eternal order and a means to serve, becomes only drudgery. Our pettiest difficulties, not to mention our big ones, are cause for nothing but complaint and self-pity. All circumstances not deliberately arranged by us look like obstacles to be rid of. We consume much and produce little; we get depressed, and depression is actually dangerous and destructive….”Godliness with contentment is great gain.” Those words were written a long time ago to a young man by an older man who had experienced almost the gamut of human suffering, including being chained day and night to a prison guard. Contentment is another word which has fallen into disuse. We think of it, perhaps, in connection with cows–the best milk comes from contented ones, doesn’t it?–but it doesn’t take much to content a cow. Peace and fodder are probably all it asks. We are not cows. What does it take to content us? How could Paul, after what he had been through, write as he did to Timothy?”

The current world culture has everyone so restricted with worldly expectations and restrictions, they are bored to tears! There is such freedom in God’s restrictions and expectations! A Godly life is a life of joy and contentment!

]]> By: JFC http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/12/22/the-gift-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-453 JFC Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:18:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=118#comment-453 Well, once again a post chock full of wisdom and Biblical teachings. I bet there are at least a half dozen sentences that could be lifted and quoted as mottos. Again, <B>thank you</B> for provoking your readers to love and good deeds. JFC Well, once again a post chock full of wisdom and Biblical teachings. I bet there are at least a half dozen sentences that could be lifted and quoted as mottos.

Again, thank you for provoking your readers to love and good deeds.

JFC

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