Some Teaching? ALL Teaching

So the sun has dipped behind the mountain

and I finally sit down- to write. Daddy has been bugging me about blogging like I use to for quite some time, and although I thoroughly enjoy it... uh hum! Time? Is there any time to sit down and just blog?! It's like some days I'm up before 5 am and still at work at 9 pm. There ain't no way I'm finding time to blog in my week!!!

But after this morning's wonderful sermon and the hike up to Eagle Rock...

They really are such a sweet couple!!! :)

I decided I have time to blog, SO here I am!

Well, when I was in school- like 1st & 2nd grade, I admired my teachers- and rightly so, but now that I'm older- I realize they had flaws like any one of us. And along with admiring them I, too, wanted to teach school. Well, somewhere along the way that teaching desire diminished and I wanted to become a RN. But of course, now here I am, a common farm girl. (And... I love my job, by the way!!) But still, teaching is something that happens in everyday life. We are always teaching each other something at the farm- whether it's good or bad! And I found a note in my Bible this morning that really hit me-

Yeah! It never hit me that hard before. I have made some great friendships at the farm- with complete strangers, what do they see in my life? I especially think of this lovely lady-

Samantha was raised in a home that was anything but Christian. Miraculously, both her and her boyfriend are here- after a horrific accident. She means so much to me and my life. I will never forget the times we hung out together, going to work early , and just working together. The questions we worked through together, the many questions she still has about Mennonites and the answers I will have to give even though they go against my grain! (Because of church differences.) She has an amazing testimony and she isn't scared to share it! Friday she'll be going to Roxbury Treatment Center and will be sharing a short version of it. She'll definitely need prayer!

Back to what I was saying- I work with her every single day of the week. And with her upbringing and all, I'm sure my lifestyle is teaching her alot. It's pretty much up to me (with God's help) to show her what's right and wrong- in everyday life. What is my life teaching her (or anyone looking on)? Is it what I want to see in this falling world when I'm old and a stooped Grandma?

God willing, we'll (Samantha & I) can forever be great friends and will grow old together and have baking days where there's only a little bit of dough left and we share it, and drink chai together, and share silly secrets, and talk about really deep subjects. I hope that never ends!

We don't often think about our neighbors watching us closely, but I've come to realize ours keep a close eye on us and how do they say we live, does our talk and our walk line up? Or do we do some stuff Monday- Saturday that would never happen on a Sunday? (That, of course, is other than work!)

Remember we always teach MORE by how we LIVE.

21st Century Kids

For some of y'all this isn't the first time you've heard me say this...

Our world... the 21st century... video games... movies... ok, I don't really have anything wrong with a mild case of any of those... but I'm starting to realize where this kind of stuff takes a person... like our neighbor kids. Andrew is freaked out of a chicken following him... a donkey might bite... ok what the world are you thinking?! Yah a donkey can bite- if you stick your hand in his mouth, but he won't walk up to you and bite! And a chicken! Its not like they're a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex!! (If at all! ;)) Its a chicken!! A scared bird... a bird scared of birds smaller than themselves... they can't possibly harm a human!! And then the girls... why can't they play, they are the mom and the doll's the newborn, at home? Why can't they have a real 'grown-up' purse, a 'cell-phone'? And pretend they are going shopping with their best friend? Instead peer pressure makes them play with Barbie dolls and everything else the world has to offer... the horror movies... the make believe... ok, maybe not even half of this made sense... just some of my musings the last couple days... I just really have to wonder what kids would do without a iPod or a phone? No YouTube... no angry birds... (or is that outdated too?!) Do these kids even know what card games are?! Just wondering! :)