We were hoping to get some good rain this past week. We were somewhat disheartened as we only received .13". The country is pretty dry. Still amazing how under the right sunlight the golden hue of these plains shine through.
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The family was sitting at the dining room table this morning following breakfast. We were discussing some hard decisions that had to be made due to drought and heat of the past two years. Robin recalled that we had one of the hottest summers on record since 1936. I then pointed out that my dad as a boy sat in the same dining room with his parents discussing what they were going to do as well. They were in the midst of the Great Depression... The Dust Bowl... and the Nazis were already making inroads in much of Europe.
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And here we were today... drought... uncertain economy... unrest around the world... and for certain pandemics... health and fear.
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And that is the point... "We are still here today..." The Reinhold family has been eating and discussing and living in this same dining room of this old house on the Lonetree Ranch for nearly a century.
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A testimony to God's faithfulness and provision...
And we will continue to trust Him as long as "we are still here" and "we will still be here as long as the Lord leads and we continue in His ways".
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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentation 3:22-23
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For we walk by faith, not by sight. II Corinthians 5:17
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13