Another Maranatha sunset signaled the end of summer and the beginning of another harvest here on the farm!The past 12 months have ushered in moments of great joy and rejoicing as well as pain and mourning in our family. We have celebrated the victories and improvements Steve continues to experience, but have also had times when we have grieved, anew, the hard journey of traumatic brain injury that he navigates through at times not so successfully.
Randy's father went home to be with Jesus in February. While the weather was bleak (a brief blizzard) the day of his funeral, there was joy in the midst of our tears of sorrow...because of the very real hope and promise that some day we will see him again. We now have one more of our family waiting to greet us someday.
Steve's big news as promised last year is his new adventure with raising beef cattle. He has connected with his 60 or so head of cattle and seems to have a way with them. We have enjoyed the fruits of his labor already as have others who have tried the new 'Central Lean Beef'.
The other rather ambitious endeavor the guys are engaged in is a partnership with Motivational Media Assemblies. When they are not in the fields, Randy & Steve have presented assemblies to school children of all ages as well as some conferences featuring 40 minute presentations packed with the latest in movie clips, music, and stories all aimed as inspiring and equipping students to avoid bad choices, and aspire to be their best. This year's show actually has a brief clip with our story of loss due to a car crash. We pray that young lives will be impacted by the powerful messages in the show as well as the words that Steve & Randy share at the end of each assembly.
Our faith in the Living Hope provides the energy to keep on keeping on (sharing our story/ living through the journey)
