10/28/2025
Cold, blustery, rainy and wonderful! I stepped out to do chores this morning, just me and the dog, fall is definitely a beautiful time of year. I was standing on the patio taking it all in and thinking about how fortunate we've been. One of my closest friends said "well you've got the place, now what?" He went on to tell me that so often when we work so hard to get what we want and what we think God wants for us that once we're there we don't know what to do with it because we've worked so hard to accomplish one goal that we completely neglect any other goals. I wish he hadn't been right, but he was. The last year and a half has been a whirlwind of hard work, chaos ( good and bad), successes, failures and everything in between. My beautiful wife always reminds me to be grateful regardless of the circumstances and as you look around it's awful hard not to be. It's important for me to remember that no matter how far you've come there's always going to be, "something," that is nagging at you, trying to drag you down or trying to make you ungrateful. My life is good, really really good. From the outside looking in it would seem that I have arrived. From the inside looking out there is an inner struggle daily to be grateful for what I've been given and not overwhelmed and sometimes even bitter for what that blessing comes with. I have to remind myself every morning that what has been given to me so abundantly is not because of what I have done or the sacrifices I have made but because the Father knew that the healing and redemption of other souls would happen here. And believe me, it has. So, all of our work and all of our toil is done with joy! Not because of what we have but because of what God has given us to bring others such Joy!
On a side note, as I was sorting all this out I heard crunching in the background and the dog was joyful because she ate the remnants of a dead rabbit that the cats had killed. Life is just never dull!
Thank you everybody who supports us and believes in us. The best is yet to come!
