College Friends tented here last night 🌌Thanks for helping work the calves, Gabe! Maria & Isabel too!Andrew blessed us with his amazing trumpet 🎺 gifts today.Summer fun! 🌞
Ran fence lines on Saturday.Andrew and the herd that is really bonding to him, they come running when they see him in his fencing gator.Andrew and Rosie. Dependent on the availability/affordability of petroleum resources this may be an alternative transportation. 😉So fun to see our first treasure grow & thrive out here in the middle of nowhere 😊Garden time! I love following Andrew’s work, he’s such a perfectionist.Observing insects. Future Entomologist?Helping Aunt Anna by watering her flowers.Andrew made Lucy an adorable peach crepe on Saturday.
Cuties… Andrew and his clever grape bunnies.We went to check on the bulls last night.Curious heifers.Our oldest son is helping Daddy run a fence line, and our second son is helping Grandpa. 💚 FAMILY Farms💚One of the neatest things ever is watching the cattle go into their next paddock. Andrew and Simon are downright advanced, well past proficient, in putting in those fence lines.
This article neatly illustrates, why I will encourage each and every one of my little treasures to become proficient at an instrument.
So adorable when they fall asleep in the high chair.😴💙 Brothers 💙. “The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.” – Saint Pope John Paul IIMeanwhile…back at the ranch.
I heard today that most people who leave the church, did not leave because of the priest or the choir or because of the message, but simply because they fell out of the habit of attending Mass. How is peace possible in this world if each and every one of us doesn’t have an intimate relationship with Jesus? Without that direct lifeline, how can we work on our vices and gain heaven?
Harrowing the field in preparation of planting corn.Jet had a filly, Simon is going to name her Luna.Simon, Lucy, and I picked up the sheep. 🐑Leave a 6 year old in charge of dishes…2 of ours are in baseball ⚾ this year.We attempt to do meatless Fridays all year. Andrew made homemade buns with homemade tuna burgers, quite tasty! 😋
My new favorite 🙏:
Ibelieve, O Lord, but may I believe more firmly; I hope, but may I hope more securely; I love, but may I love more ardently; I sorrow, but may I sorrow more deeply. I adore you as my first beginning; I long for you as my last end; I praise you as my constant benefactor; I invoke you as my gracious protector.
By your wisdom direct me, by your righteousness restrain me, by your indulgence console me, by your power protect me.
I offer you, Lord, my thoughts to be directed to you, my words, to be about you, my deeds, to respect your will, my trials, to be endured for you.
I will whatever you will, I will it because you will it, I will it in the way you will it, I will it for as long as you will it.
Lord, enlighten my understanding, I pray: arouse my will, cleanse my heart, sanctify my soul.
May I weep for past sins, repel future temptations, correct evil inclinations, nurture appropriate virtues.
Give me, good God, love for you, hatred for myself, zeal for my neighbor, contempt for the world.
May I strive to obey superiors, to help those dependent on me, to have care for my friends, forgiveness for my enemies.
May I conquer sensuality by austerity, avarice by generosity, anger by gentleness, lukewarmness by fervor.
Render me prudent in planning, steadfast in dangers, patient in adversity, humble in prosperity.
Make me, O Lord, attentive at prayer, moderate at meals, diligent in work, steadfast in intent.
May I be careful to maintain interior innocence, outward modesty, exemplary behavior, a regular life.
May I be always watchful in subduing nature, in nourishing grace, in observing your law, in winning salvation.
May I learn from you how precarious are earthly things, how great divine things, how fleeting is time, how lasting things eternal.
Grant that I may prepare for death, fear judgment, flee hell, gain paradise. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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