Northern Farmer

As the week wraps up around here things are slowing down gradually. All is well. The early seeding got finished this week, the first batch of chicks from our incubator are in the brooder house doing fine, the females will be added to the laying flock. Next week we’ll reload the incubator for round number two. We plan on almost continually using that contraption, maybe expanding to a larger incubator in the near future and will gradually hatch all of our own chicks, including all of our pasture raised meat birds. In reality it’s just like anything else, a person is brainwashed, or should I say the average person has lost the ability to be self sufficient, as farmers once were. I wrote about some of this early last fall about how we wanted to be independent as far as poultry, cattle, hogs, and all seeds for farm and personal use. So far so good. This, I feel should be a farmer’s or homesteader’s top priority. What good does it do to figure a person is independent and still have to buy most of the inputs. It boils down to, just a serf of a different color. I know for myself it was a hard thing to get deprogrammed from the lies of big ag, but it happened and the independence is something else. But people do have to start somewhere so I certainly won’t condemn folks that do buy everything to raise up, whether it be seed or critters.

This morning as the sun was coming up I was walking around opening gates for the day and checking for new calves and seeing what was happening in the brooder house. It sure was a nice morning, around forty or so outside and sunny, little wind at the time. When I’m doing this there’s a thousand things on my mind, I mean, you name it. There’s so much to think about just to keep this place going in itself. If people think we just tiptoe through the tulips, well, it ain’t quite like that. It’s truly incredible all the stuff a person has to think about all the time. And when there’s a break from that line of thinking then a person starts to think about the bigger picture, you know, animal ID, GMOs, raping the land for suburban type housing, and the general breakup of morals in society. Then I though I’m not going to be wasting my time thinking negative thoughts today, what the heck for.

I noticed a strange type of silence come over the farm, there was no noise from the busy county road out front which is unusual in itself. Calmness was the order at that moment. The only noise that I could hear was the breathing of the cattle and some scampering calves running around in a gang. Then it seemed like something said, let it begin and the birds were singing so beautiful, geese flew overhead so low I thought I could reach up and grab them. Wild turkey toms were gobbling in every direction and still no manmade noise anywhere. I had to smile because I knew this was a moment with God. In fact I got downright excited. My thoughts were whirling in overdrive. It’d take a month to write down all the information going through my head for those ten minutes.

I thought about all the blessings our family has received and continue to receive. The healings that came and totally changed our lives, from curing total deafness in one ear, to healing me of a killer disease that there is no cure for. Everything washed away by the Blood of Jesus. When these moments come there is nothing but pure peace in the spirit. The world around me this morning was different, it was good. One could tell God’s presence, I thought, this is how it was supposed to be, everything peaceful all the time. A person couldn’t worry if they tried. Well, that was the way it was supposed to be from the beginning. And that is what creation is straining to return to. It’s straining to return to the state that God designed it to be before the fall. What a wonderful feeling to be a small part of this on a simple country morning on the farm. I know today will be one day I will remember into eternity, I know it was meant to give me a glimpse of things to come.

I’ve seen so many things that the world says to be impossible and I can assure myself and others the world is wrong. Thank You Jesus.

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