So I put on my fridge the card from Cristina and from Priscilla with 2 l's
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Nathan's 15th
This is for all 16 of you cousins to use. I want you to feel free to add and change things. Will have to figure out how to do that later. For now, here is something quick:
When I was your age
In honor of Nathan’s 15th birthday
This is going to be fun, thinking back a lot of years. When I did this for your mother’s birthday, it wasn’t so far back. When I turned 15 I had just started grade 11. I had spent the summer working on a farm near Three Hills, Alberta. The family lived in Saskatchewan, I guess, about 300 miles away. The farm included driving a truck and tractors and a horse. The horse was to round up the cows every morning and evening for milking. Bareback. I spent long days on the tractor, cultivating the huge fields. On Sundays the boss let me use the horse to go to church in the town of Linden. Even then it was very unusual to ride a horse to church. I tied it up outside, and it was there waiting for me after church. It galloped very well, especially when it knew it was going home. Once a girl who was visiting took the horse out on the road, and couldn’t control it as it came back into the farm. It turned into the yard so fast that she kept on going straight ahead, and suffered minor injuries. The reason I wasn’t at home was that I was attending Prairie High School, and where we lived, there wasn’t much work for a kid.
The farm also had chickens, turkeys, pigs, but it was mainly grain. One funny experience once was when the little pigs were getting sick and dying, and the boss, Art Taylor, knew that there was a disease going around, so he probably wouldn’t be able to sell them. But he decided to take them to market real fast. He sold them cheap, and thought he was pretty smart because he could always say later that he hadn’t known that they were sick. Then the test results came back, and they weren’t sick. It was the food. We had been giving them unhulled oats, which are not for baby pigs. He thought it was funny himself. Like, “serves me right”.
That year in school I was already thinking of Spain. When I started in grade 9, we were encouraged to sign up for a missionary prayer group by continents. Since the Europe group was the smallest, I joined it. Over the years I came to the conclusion that Spain was one of the neediest countries in Europe, and kept that in mind from then on. So that may be related to the fact that you are in Spain.
Here’s the Psalm that I read today (Message version), which has some good advice.
Psalm 146:1-10 - (1) Hallelujah! O my soul, praise GOD!
(2) All my life long I'll praise GOD, singing songs to my God as long as I live.
(3) Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
(4) Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.
(5) Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in GOD and know real blessing!
(6) GOD made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says--
(7) he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. GOD frees prisoners--
(8) he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. GOD loves good people,
(9) protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
(10) GOD's in charge--always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!
How’s progress on the book or books? With love, your Grandpa
When I was your age
In honor of Nathan’s 15th birthday
This is going to be fun, thinking back a lot of years. When I did this for your mother’s birthday, it wasn’t so far back. When I turned 15 I had just started grade 11. I had spent the summer working on a farm near Three Hills, Alberta. The family lived in Saskatchewan, I guess, about 300 miles away. The farm included driving a truck and tractors and a horse. The horse was to round up the cows every morning and evening for milking. Bareback. I spent long days on the tractor, cultivating the huge fields. On Sundays the boss let me use the horse to go to church in the town of Linden. Even then it was very unusual to ride a horse to church. I tied it up outside, and it was there waiting for me after church. It galloped very well, especially when it knew it was going home. Once a girl who was visiting took the horse out on the road, and couldn’t control it as it came back into the farm. It turned into the yard so fast that she kept on going straight ahead, and suffered minor injuries. The reason I wasn’t at home was that I was attending Prairie High School, and where we lived, there wasn’t much work for a kid.
The farm also had chickens, turkeys, pigs, but it was mainly grain. One funny experience once was when the little pigs were getting sick and dying, and the boss, Art Taylor, knew that there was a disease going around, so he probably wouldn’t be able to sell them. But he decided to take them to market real fast. He sold them cheap, and thought he was pretty smart because he could always say later that he hadn’t known that they were sick. Then the test results came back, and they weren’t sick. It was the food. We had been giving them unhulled oats, which are not for baby pigs. He thought it was funny himself. Like, “serves me right”.
That year in school I was already thinking of Spain. When I started in grade 9, we were encouraged to sign up for a missionary prayer group by continents. Since the Europe group was the smallest, I joined it. Over the years I came to the conclusion that Spain was one of the neediest countries in Europe, and kept that in mind from then on. So that may be related to the fact that you are in Spain.
Here’s the Psalm that I read today (Message version), which has some good advice.
Psalm 146:1-10 - (1) Hallelujah! O my soul, praise GOD!
(2) All my life long I'll praise GOD, singing songs to my God as long as I live.
(3) Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
(4) Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.
(5) Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in GOD and know real blessing!
(6) GOD made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says--
(7) he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. GOD frees prisoners--
(8) he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. GOD loves good people,
(9) protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
(10) GOD's in charge--always. Zion's God is God for good! Hallelujah!
How’s progress on the book or books? With love, your Grandpa
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