The Rational Rabbit Hole no. 13

As for God, His way is blameless. The word of the Lord is tested [it is perfect, it is faultless]; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

Psalm 18:30 AMP

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, do you now believe? Blessed [happy, spiritually secure, and favored by God] are they who did not see [Me] and yet believed [in Me].”

John 20:29 AMP

Embrace the Within.

Are you at peace? I really feel peace right now in my life despite the situations, despite the worries, despite the obstacles, despite everything I am told to fear. I am at peace. And that is not something that I thought was ever going to happen fourteen days ago. There are a lot of things that I didn’t plan to happen fourteen days ago.

Nevertheless, here I am a gentleman farmer and a Christian. Two things that I would have never predicted for my life are now exactly the two main components of my current life. They are the two things that start my day and the two things that bring my day to a close. And during the summer and as I approach retirement, they will become all of my day. And I am so looking forward to that time if it is in God’s plan. A time where I get to devote my time to the two things that are new to my being. The two things that are now quite indispensable in defining who I am.

Maybe these two things are not at all a stretch for where I am now. I was raised in a church and I haven’t been avoiding church. BUT I will never forget the experiences that church taught me about people. And those lessons are supported as I continue my study through the entirety of The Bible and related works. Putting trust in the work of men is a sure way to find yourself in a spiritual dilemma. BUT placing your faith in God and walking in the truth of the Almighty is a perfect, faultless, and blameless way to protect your being.

Likewise, I have been around farming my entire life. My father, grandfathers, and probably their fathers before them through the past were involved in some sort of gardening, livestock, and farming work. With the inevitability of supply chain issues, I moved to shortening that chain to a few steps outside my back porch. And that love of nature and science and experimentation and problem-solving led to so much new knowledge of how to grow food. It didn’t start out great. In fact it began as a failure fourteen days ago, and now it is gaining some traction and I am getting better at repurposing my land into something that will support me as I support it.

And there is a relationship in both of these defining principles. I am constantly in a relationship with learning and sharing knowledge about these principles. I use both these defining principles to make my life and the life of others better. And I find there is great fulfillment and abundance for my being in walking these two paths. Nothing is better than being out in the dirt and the sun and the plants and the animals. Being around God and God’s creation is peaceful and perfect and faultless and blameless. Working the land is a shield and refuge for me from the situations, worries, obstacles, and fears that are brought into the light by mankind. Despite and in spite of that all, I choose peace.

Peace to your house. Bless your soul. The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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