Men of Fuel
Not long after my father retired from the Navy, my parents bought a 135 acre farm in Stanardsville Va.  Stanardsville is about a two hour drive from Northern Virginia and is about halfway between Culpepper and Charlottesville.  My father had grown up on a farm in Gainesville Wisconsin, so this farm was sort of homecoming for him.  So not long after painting a huge white anchor on the red barn (I am not kidding), my father started taking on additional “Farming†activities.
One of the first activities was planting corn in the lower field of their property, which was only second to buying all of the farm equipment needed to plant corn in the lower field.  I was there that day for “Corn planting dayâ€, and I must say that planting corn is about as much fun as, well, planting corn.  I left the next day, and drove past acres of turned up earth, yet the next time I came back to visit my parents those acres of upturned earth were now covered with guess what?  You guessed it: Corn.
Now while that may seem like an exercise in the obvious, what if that same were true in our lives? Â What if some of the things we were experiencing in our lives right now were not just random occurrences, but rather the direct outcome of a previous action? Â If that were true would it benefit us to make the connection? Â Would it allow us to change future experiences?
Come on out this Wednesday as we plant the seeds of our new four week series titled: The Law of the Harvest.
Invest and Invite,
D.R.