Shellie Rushing Tomlinson's Blog: Shellie Rushing Tomlinson's Blog

Farming is dangerous but God is good!

I need to testify tonight, and it may be a long read but I post a lot about our way of life, and for the most part, it’s good and I mean everything I say. We love it. But, I rarely talk about the challenges of farming, the low commodity prices, the incredibly long hours, and the dangers involved in bringing crops to market. This may surprise you, but farming is one of the most dangerous occupations there is, ranking higher than many jobs you may think of as riskier, like mining, rig work, and se...

What’s making my eyes water today, and a free book for YOU!

Hey friend! I’m back in your inbox a little quicker than normal. Right? Well, it’s going to be brief! Fact it, it has occurred to me that there was a development around here I haven’t share with this reading community that is so dear to my heart! I’ll close with that little news! First, here is why my eyes are watering today, and it’s all good. Watch it here.

One might think watching your youngest grandson in that setting would be depressing and make a woman feel old. (It’s ok! I would’ve thoug...

A Grab Bag of Thoughts and a Question I’d Love You to Answer

Hey friends! We’re knee deep into summer now and it is hot in these parts. I do hope you’re managing to stay cool where you are. This is random info, but I’m actually typing from the back porch with the fans going full force because I totally prefer it over the air conditioning. The beloved farmer thinks I’m nuts, but then he is in the heat without the shade and fans. Right? : ) I’ll put up with the AC when he’s home but I won’t be far from a comfy throw. 

So, I laughed at myself with that rando...

Rocking it Grand Freebie

Hey friends! Enjoy a taste of the book I wrote with author friend and podcast co-host Chrys Howard.

Freebie – Introduction and two chapters of Rocking it Grand

 

Hugs,
Shellie 

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On how to think straight with a few lagniappe thoughts from Shellie

Hey, friend! I’ve been thinking about you. All of you. I wanted to catch up with what’s going on in your world, and tell you about my recent trip to Alaska where I spoke to the staff of Artic Barnabas. AB is a ministry that exists to serve pastors and missionaries in remote Alaska and I fell in love with their mission to the people living in the bush. I’ll share some pics and memories with you in just a moment.

But first, I’d like to offer you some tools for your prayer time. I put these Script...

March Madness Lagniappe from my house to yours!

Hello friend! It’s high time we catch up, wouldn’t you say? I’ll go first. It’s March Madness on so many levels around here. There’s NCAA basketball fever, for sure. We Tomlinsons love us some basketball. You can read that as we’ll be those people grieving when the winners finish cutting down the nets, but that’s a few weeks off, so right now we’re in hog heaven just binging the b-ball! But the madness doesn’t start or stop there.Both of my parents have had heart issues since the last time I wr...

Merry Christmas from my house to yours

Merry Christmas, friend! I’m not naive enough to expect any of you fine people to read this today, but hey, it will be here when you do find time to catch up and breathe. So, whenever that is, pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea and let’s chat…

This is the place where I could make all kinds of promises about staying in better touch going forward, you know, like I did once upon a time?! That reference won’t mean a thing to some of you, but those who have been with me for decades will remember wh...

For the Love of Labor

Would you say you have a healthy mentality about work? Yes, no, not sure? Let’s chat…

Harvest 2024 has kicked off here at Tomlinson Farms. I took some lunch to the Beloved Farmer and snapped our traditional combine pictures. (Note to self, find them all and have a little photo book made of the two of us over the years. It would be fun to watch us, ahem, mature. Please and thank you.)

Phil and I have seen every side of this farming thing. Good years, average years, and years like this one, where ...

Catching Up with Keggie

Keggie is my grandmother name. I’m sure I’ve told y’all that, but I added it there in the title because I’ve noticed more and more people who aren’t family calling me, “Keggie”. And for the record, I’m good with that. Feel free to call me Keggie when you write in, and I’ll consider you family, too!

So, I’ve been meaning to write and fill you in on all the latest around here, but I declare, time seems to be on warp speed. I thought it might, just might, slow down a tad when I got off the road for...

Discovering it isn’t so small after all

Settle in a moment if you have the time. I want to challenge all of us with a different way of thinking about that one small step we need to take today, that one action we’ve been putting off, that one phone call we need to make, that one decision hanging in the balance, that one step into the rest of our lives. And I want to begin by telling you about the “yod”. It’s the name of a little mark with enormous potential. 

I imagine you’ve heard of the butterfly effect, the theory describing the wor...