More Miracles on the Plains

Yesterday we witness a miracle.

We’ve been steadily homesteading, trying to turn our two little acres into a functional farm. There has been laughter, like the time we unloaded wood onto our muddy backyard and ended up looking like a Scottish warrior afterwards.

And those days when the chickens try to eat my shoes:

At least the chickens think my feet are appealing.

And there were tears, like last week when we thought the potatoes might have been ready, and there was NOTHING. Yeah, I won’t show you a picture of that. Neither the fruitless plants nor my angry/disappointed face were pretty to look at. (Blood, sweat and tears had gone into that project. We just needed to give our baby plants some more time…One more month then it’ll be little Ireland around here with all the potatoes we’ll have!)

And then there’s what happened yesterday.

Let me preface this by saying I’ve been doing a great deal of farming on my knees, crying out to God because I don’t know how to do ANY of this. I’d spent all my teen years telling myself that I NEVER wanted to be a farmer. And here I am. The writer in me loves the irony of that.

Also, we’ve had to scrape together the finances for basics while we waited patiently for harvest. Our dream of having lambs on the farm seemed like it would take months or years rather than days or weeks.

Little lambs. Baby lambs to cuddle, to hold, to let loose so they’d eat the grass that becomes overgrown soooo quickly.

Not ours, but soon we will have one like this!!

Someone gave a financial gift yesterday to fulfill that dream. I’m hoping that by next week I can post a picture or two of my little girl holding a little lamb.

Yet another testimony of this fact:

If God calls you to do something, He WILL provide the means for you to do it. Sometimes much later than you think it will happen, and sometimes much sooner.

 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8

Have a blessed day!