Sunday was Mother’s Day. I preached an important message I called “Followers of Jesus Honor Women.” It was an important message. If you have not heard it maybe you could take a few minutes to listen to the sermon or watch it. It is about 35 minutes long and it comes from a place deep in […]
Cold Spring on the Pine River
It was in early May in northern Michigan. We were canoeing the Pere Markett or the Pine or the Ausable or the Manistee or the Boardman or the Muskegon I don’t remember which. Spring was trying valiantly to turn warm but it was moving slow as an old man getting out of bed in the […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal | April 12, 2021 | Things We Don’t Like and Don’t Understand
I’ve been unable to walk any distance since the 17th of February. Working slowly and steadily to rehab my knee I have worked my way up from a slow shuffle to the mailbox to longer walks around Bittersweet Farm and up and down the road. This morning I achieved a full half-hour walk out on […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal | March 25, 2021 | Too Late
Visitors. For the last few days we have been enjoying a visit from our daughter Heidi and her two children Keira and Koen. They are delightful little souls. Grandma promised them a trip to the Dollar Store if they picked up all the windfall branches. They went right to work. Now the place looks like […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal | March 15, 2021 | Over The Corn Crib Door
It’s a “Marchy” day out on Bittersweet Farm. The sun is out this morning and the wind is loud in the trees. Providential Moonlight. The other night I was awake in the night and thinking about some burdens. I have had to deal with some physical pain and with a large family and a church […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 104) Try A Little Kindness
Try A Little Kindness About eight inches of snow fell on Bittersweet Farm through the night on Monday and into Tuesday morning. The sky cleared by Tuesday morning and the sun was bright on the snow. I spent a couple hours plowing and shoveling and playing around on my tractor. When I shut down the […]