Patience.
I often joke that most people wake up with about 80% patience for the day. I wake up in a deficit. -5% if I’m lucky. This lack of patience makes the homesteading life difficult because I don’t like waiting for…
Redefining The Midlife Crisis
Redefining The Midlife Crisis
I often joke that most people wake up with about 80% patience for the day. I wake up in a deficit. -5% if I’m lucky. This lack of patience makes the homesteading life difficult because I don’t like waiting for…
We live with limited time. God has our end in sight. While He is sovereign, we’re called to the duty of living lives honoring Him. A while back, I got into a bit of a disagreement with someone over politics.…
Minnesota has had an odd winter. It’s been warm. Not a lot of snow. Been good for us having moved into the tiny house. Easy to adjust. Strange happenings brings out the crazy in people. One one hand, the environmental…
I tend to be very much in the “Reformed” camp of thinking. I’ve joked that if I were to get tattoos, I would get the 5 Solas of the Reformation tattooed on my left fingers and the five points of…
Like my father and brother, mania tends to take hold of me. I’ll obsess with something for a while, dwelling on it, mulling it over, thinking about it. Right now, I’ve been poring over alley cropping. I went to the…
I often say that “the Bible doesn’t stutter.” I usually state this in response to the idea that the more challenging statements in Scripture can be negated by comparing them to your feelings. Another thing I often say is that…
I found an absolute gem of a book at a Goodwill a couple of weeks ago: Five Acres and Independence by M.G. Kains. Joel Salatin often says to find the oldest farming books you can; the original of this book…
The men’s group at our church is going through J.I. Packer’s Knowing God. I haven’t read anything by Packer, but I’m aware that he edited the ESV Study Bible (which I have) and he was close with John Piper, whom…
I take a daily walk around the farm. I think it’s important to keep an eye on as much of it as you can daily. You get to know the land, the fallen trees, the boulders, the birds. I’ve lived…
I’ve often said that the worst things to happen to our culture are social media, the stock market, and the industrial revolution. I think we can expand that list to five. 1. The 24 Hour News Cycle/News As Business News…