Solstice to Solstice :: Light

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Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy.
Bring My people home.
How?
By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love.

Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing.
Avoid the mundane.
Do not accept the unacceptable.
Teach all who seek to learn of Me.
Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.
Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me.
Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing.
Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift!
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift—yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you…I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS.

~ from Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 2 by Neale Donald Walsch
joining urban.prairie.forest for week thirteen of the thirteen weeks of autumn, the solstice to solstice project

A Gift For You

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We are so grateful to you, our blog readers, and thoroughly enjoy your comments and insights.  We love sharing life on our small family farm, and want to thank you for all your support throughout the year.  So here is our holiday gift to you ~ free standard shipping on our calendars, tee shirts and onsies in our Etsy shop.  Just enter the promo code HOLIDAYTREAT in the comment section, and we will refund the shipping charge on your order of calendars, tee shirts and onsies.

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Enjoy a little slice of life on our fifth-generation family farm, through our products celebrating our farm animals’ personalities!  Happy Holidays from the Shepherdess/s!

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Checking In

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The boys are checking in and are happy to report that the first breeding cycle ends today.  All the ewes are marked,  and the wax marking crayons get changed to a new color today.  The hope is that everyone is caught the first go round, and no one gets marked a second time.  If everything goes smoothly, we’ll be able to get all the ewes moved to the barn pasture for the winter, hopefully before any more big snowstorms move through our area.

Like Mary Poppins’ Carpet Bag

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There are many Amish farms in neighboring Maryland, and often when we go to the stockyard, farmers arrive in their horse and buggy.  We always admire their wonderful horses, and are reminded of stories of Great, Great Grandmother Amy and her beautiful buggy and horse.  While we were waiting, on Saturday, the buggy below drove up (it is a little larger than the one shown above).  A farmer and his daughter got out and took a bag full of eggs in to the auction.  A few minutes later, the farmer came out and removed a wooden crate with two small quail inside, up the steps and in to the auction they went.  Several minutes later, he was back in that Mary-Poppins-Carpet-Bag-Like-Buggy, and much to our surprise came around the side of the truck with a beautiful, little brown and white calf in his arms.  So, although there was a line of farmers and trucks waiting for the loading dock, we had to take time to pet and make-over that little calf with the big, beautiful eyes.  I’m kind of kicking myself for not making a deal in the parking lot and bringing that little fella home.  I think I could have hidden him in with the lambs…
at least for a little while 😉

A Murder of Crows

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After waking up to yesterday’s gothic-like weather of constant rain and fog, it was no surprise to hear a very loud flock of birds causing quite a ruckus.  It sounded like they were down in the hollow, but on the way to the old barn to get a load of hay, here they were.

Hundreds of crows literally covered the hayfield.  Many of them were visiting the puddles in the barn lane for a quick drink.

Holding my breath like Melanie Daniels in ‘The Birds’ (wink), I tried to slowly drive down the lane.  The crows stayed ahead of the ranger, constantly taking off and landing, all the while filling the air with their loud, racous cawing.   Some took to the trees, covering the tops like leaves.

As I got closer to the old barn, the crows flew faster and farther, heading down in the woods towards Wolf Creek.  By the time I backed up to the old barn doors to load hay, only a few remained in the tops of the trees… still scolding me loudly for disturbing their great gathering of crows.

If you haven’t had a chance to see Nature’s ‘A Murder of Crows’, please do so.  It is fascinating.  You will observe crows in a whole new manner.  You can watch it on-line here.