Our affectionate new Neubian donkey named Davie has quite the personality. I’m not sure our Black Angus, named Scheffler, who once got all my attention in the pasture we call Golders Green, knows what to do about it. Their expressions make me smile. I’ll...
This is a brief look back at 2022 and a look forward to the months to come. We offer a few highlights of what the Lord has done here this past year, share what we prayerfully anticipate in the New Year, and invite your continuing partnership with us as we endeavor to...
After an autumn rain, the midst rises up from the Hogan’s Creek valley and makes a simple pasture view seem epic, almost mystical. It draws me to watch it, to step into it. I can relate to the words of poet Emily Dickinson: “The fog is rising. I must go...
In college, I heard an old Swiss-born professor (the inimitable Roger Nicole) once say that when you’re in your library – no matter how big or how small – you are “in the company of friends.” It struck me. I’ve been a hopeless bibliophile ever since. Will Durant put...
Since I’ve been a boy, my Dad has told me a thousand times: “Nothing is dynamic, until it is specific!” When I would talk about wanting to change the world, he’d tell me to start by making my bed. Now that I’m the dad, I’ve found...
One of my favorite quotes from Henry David Thoreau is about the connection between dreaming and doing. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Thoreau knew something about...
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