This weekend I had a chance to get home to Bo’ness to spend time with family and friends after my first week back in classes.
The first week back went very well with us receiving the list of assignments it helps you to get into perspective for what is to come in the next 12 weeks.
With it being the first week back I don’t have a lot to say about college, but my trip home however is a very different story.
A busy weekend with very little spare time I got to meet up with various different people and enjoyed my time.
The weekend brought many highlights but one in particular will stay with me I hope and Pray for a long time, this was a “chance” meeting with a farmer, I say chance but I don’t believe in chance, I believe in a God whose timing is always perfect.
It was a completely refreshing meeting that inspired me and refreshed me. I met Muddy on Friday when I arrived at the station so we could go for a coffee, after our coffee we stopped by a local farm to pick up some fire logs, something I had never done in my life but ah well I will try anything once. The farmer there came over to speak to us and the conversation that took place was between strangers but it was honest and open. The farmer, David is a hard working man who inspired me with his honesty and clarity, he himself said that he was not a Christian but this phrase that was said as an off the cuff remark challenged me “Every morning I wake up and I see all of this, God’s creation, I’m right up at the front of the creation every morning and I know that it is the creation of God. A lot of people are caught up in the concrete jungle but I see the seasons up close.”
Personally it challenged me this week we were asked in college to look at Genesis 1 and coming over on the train I looked it like the story we were told at school, the story I’ve covered teaching Sunday School or in kids clubs, but right there I felt the passion in David’s voice the reality is for me, I needed a reminder of the beauty of the world, and I got it. The man who gave me a reality check, a man who said it like it is.
Looking at my course work now I’m refreshed and ready to grasp the meaning of the verse “And God looked at all He had made and He seen that it was very, very good.”
The first week back went very well with us receiving the list of assignments it helps you to get into perspective for what is to come in the next 12 weeks.
With it being the first week back I don’t have a lot to say about college, but my trip home however is a very different story.
A busy weekend with very little spare time I got to meet up with various different people and enjoyed my time.
The weekend brought many highlights but one in particular will stay with me I hope and Pray for a long time, this was a “chance” meeting with a farmer, I say chance but I don’t believe in chance, I believe in a God whose timing is always perfect.
It was a completely refreshing meeting that inspired me and refreshed me. I met Muddy on Friday when I arrived at the station so we could go for a coffee, after our coffee we stopped by a local farm to pick up some fire logs, something I had never done in my life but ah well I will try anything once. The farmer there came over to speak to us and the conversation that took place was between strangers but it was honest and open. The farmer, David is a hard working man who inspired me with his honesty and clarity, he himself said that he was not a Christian but this phrase that was said as an off the cuff remark challenged me “Every morning I wake up and I see all of this, God’s creation, I’m right up at the front of the creation every morning and I know that it is the creation of God. A lot of people are caught up in the concrete jungle but I see the seasons up close.”
Personally it challenged me this week we were asked in college to look at Genesis 1 and coming over on the train I looked it like the story we were told at school, the story I’ve covered teaching Sunday School or in kids clubs, but right there I felt the passion in David’s voice the reality is for me, I needed a reminder of the beauty of the world, and I got it. The man who gave me a reality check, a man who said it like it is.
Looking at my course work now I’m refreshed and ready to grasp the meaning of the verse “And God looked at all He had made and He seen that it was very, very good.”
Yip it certainly was a challenged that david laid down for us. A humble, honest, reflective Farmer/shepherd who sees the Creation, beautiful creation of God daily in every season. The quiet humble challenge that he laid down to get out of our concrete jungles and look and reflect on the beauty of God's creation was one of the most powerful challenges I have ever heard. Sound advice and a challenge for us all to retreat and reflect on the Creation of God.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see someone can challenge the "unflappable" Cindy! lol
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