"A farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer." Will Rodgers
A few pictures of our farm as JB left for work as the sun was coming up.
Beauty.
This life we live is beautiful.
This land we are tending is beautiful.
The time we have together is beautiful.
The animals remind me of God's beauty.
The trees. The flowers. Smokey Mountains. Majesty.
But lest you believe everything looks like sunrises and sunsets and twinkly skies and fireflies at nigh here atTthe Bauernhof, I remind you that with beauty comes a lot of days that don't feel so beautiful.
There are a lot of weeds.
Animals die.
Crops fail.
Tools break.
Arguments come unleashed.
Children complain.
Tonight there were probably more tears than there were smiles. Our farm is real. It's peace is real. The respite and refuge it provides to us and many other people is real.
But life is real. We aren't everything you see in pictures. As we browse social media, remember that a picture is what a person posts.
But a life is what people live,
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