A year ago today, April 10, 2017 the Red Jeep Journey began. A young named Shawn Wojtkewicz stood at the tailgate of my Jeep and handed me a gift of $50.00 to help me in my summer of itinerant preaching. I drove the the Shell station on the way home, filled the gas tank of […]
The Official Bittersweet Farm Season-Reckoning System
Got up this morning and, looking out on the beautiful fields still in the grey and brown of winter with a little dust of snow on the barn roof, I was thinking about when spring begins. Did you know that using the meteorological system the seasons are defined as: Spring (March, April, May) Summer (June, […]
Don’t Ask Me For Anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQv1EENYXss On a clear morning last June I hiked out to this point on the property of the Kentucky Mountain Mission to pray. I thought; “What should I ask God for?” The future was uncertain to me. The answer came ringing into my spirit; “Don’t ask me for anything. Just tell me you will go […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 5)
This Week on Bittersweet Farm Things have been quiet. They are usually wonderfully quiet and peaceful out here. It’s not remote but it is beautifully rural. The noise of songbirds is picking up. We’ve had a couple late-season snow-storms an the past couple weeks. They add a white beauty to a world waiting to turn […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 4) Around the Table
Bittersweet Farm Journal This Week There’s really not a hint of spring around these parts yet, but the grip of winter is weakening for sure. We’ve been so busy getting adjusted to our new life here that I am embarrassed to admit that Hazard and I took our first real walk today (Saturday). I noticed […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 3) The Boy Was Born With A Deformity
On Bittersweet Farm Things are peaceful on Bittersweet Farm. It almost seems the deer in the fields around us are beginning to trust us. The creatures feed closer and closer to the house every week. While we are pushing snow off the drive we are planning our bird-feeders and thinking about our flower beds and what else […]