Ready and Slow
Living in a little farm city for 7 years has me understanding from ‘the outside’ what farm life is actually like. I have farmers who have become dear friends and sometimes when I think about the life of faith and unknowns that they live in I just want to sit and learn from them. It has not been an easy year of harvest (at least here in Manitoba). Many farmer's families, faith and mental capacities have been wearied and tested. God bless the farmers! I have sat over the years in a few farmhouses and around their tables. I am excited to think of all the things on their physical piece of land and home that point to spiritual things. It can be a ‘thin space’ where what happens in the everyday, ordinary farm workings can speak to our experience of God and His dealings with us. I think maybe this is why I love the way Jesus used parables in teaching?! The physical and the spiritual meet and we know He is a real, Holy God! As I talk with my farm friends I understand there to