Monday, March 17, 2014

Don't Stop Believin'

Cam and I are planners.
We are also dreamers.
And for every dream, we have a plan to make it a reality.
 
Our dream is for our farm to become a household name.
And while we have many plans in place to make this a reality, it is still a process.
One that the Lord has His hand in completely.
 
We can try and plan all we want, but in the end He already has it planned out for us. So it doesn't matter how many numbers we crunch or which livestock we decide to invest in, if we are meant to be full time farmers, the Lord will find a way.
 
My fiancé wants to be able to wake up every morning knowing that his job is waiting for him in the field, not in a building down the road. He wants to look out over the fields while he is drinking his morning coffee and see a pasture full of black angus cattle calling his name. He wants pastures full of hay that need bailing and fences that need mending. And as his future wife, I want this for him too. 
 
But it will only happen by the Lord's grace, and a lot of hard work.
 
 It has always been a dream of mine to marry a farmer and raise our children on a large farm with rolling pastures and a white picket fence. When I met Cam, I knew I wanted to marry him despite him not wanting any of these things. But the Lord works in mighty ways! I don't quite remember when Cam decided that he wanted to be a farmer "when he grew up," or what exactly sparked his interest to do so. I can just remember being elated at the idea of him wanting to continue on my family's farming heritage.
 
The Lord was planning our farming future well before we even met.
 
It is amazing how God works if you will just let Him!
 
 
Deuteronomy 28: 1-11
If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
 
The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

1 comment:

  1. I am blessed & thankful that God sent my son a Christian 'soon to be' wife.

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