Our Challenges and Blessings of Daily Living

Our Challenges and Blessings of Daily Living

September 13, 2013

Both Challenges and Blessings

The summer has been hot and dry. The weather environment has not been kind to farmers and ranchers in our area. Every day hope for rain was met with  dry, hot, wind, causing the grass and crops to wither on the stem.

A lack of snow in the mountains promised a short irrigation season. Worried minds of the farmers and ranchers wondered,”What are we going to do?” The hay is not growing. Irrigation water can’t keep up with the needs of the crops.

Herds of cattle are running low on feed in the pastures. Notices were sent out from the water manager’s office. Water would be shut  out of the canal on the 28th of July. Hope of having a fruitful summer was almost lost.

Humbled by life struggles, all that anyone could do was look Heavenward and call upon a higher power than themselves.

Our water was shut out of the canal on July 28th… the rain came on July 29th. Worry and despair  was replaced with joy and thanksgiving. New hope was born again. Grass and crops shed their yellow, dry look. Lush green filled the country side.

The picture of cattle trailing in dust clouds changed to cattle lazily chewing their cud on green hillsides. Music seemed to be ringing through the air as neighbors smiled and greeted each other with a slap on the back.

I called my farm partner brother on the cell phone and when he answered “hello”,  I said,”Thank you Bro for living good…I think we are going to get a 3rd crop of hay!”

How can things going so bad, turn out so good in one season? I think the change happened the day everyone looked Heavenward. In our journey through life’s struggles, it is so important to look around us.

We need to know and recognize that we are such a small part of the happenings that go on in this big world. We are really quite insignificant when you think about it. We become significant when we humble ourselves and join hands with our fellow travelers. It’s so important to look away from ourselves and out to our neighbors.

Who are our neighbors? It’s everyone that we can reach out to and we can reach out a long way. We become significant when we reach out with a helping hand…with a desire to do good. If enough of us take hold of hands, we become a force and a force for good can change the world.

I’m happy to be with you in this movement. May the power of Heaven be with you until you become the person whose hand I’m holding.

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