It was Chuck Swindoll while feeding cows, you can work on character traits, three months at a time, it doesn’t have to take years, start with forgiveness. He is not the Chuck mentioned in How I Changed My Mind About Women In Leadership. Plato’s Republic in the sweat and dirt while out pulling weeds. Dallas Willard’s Life Without Lack, plunging with a side by side through the spring runoff.
Learning about emotional immaturity in adults and what it does to their children from the Gaultiere’s, harvesting canola and experiencing the reality of God’s action in his safe kingdom while operating the sprayer over thousands of acres. J.P. Moreland on the hillside talking about human origins, and Lennox doing a simple treatment with Seven Days that Divide the World while touching up paint.
Mark in the basement, wanting that kind of life, and John another time in silence and solitude. Opening the gate for the cows to come home in fall with George Marsden giving insights on fundamentalism. Trevor Hudson’s Seeking God accompanied the discovery of a busted hydraulic line on the combine upon arrival in the field to complete the harvest. Seeding north of the farm, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and later Bill Craig’s On Guard.
The NET version of the Old Testament while seeding near Birsay then moving on to the New Testament into spraying. Dorothy Sayers as company crossing the Gardiner Dam and onto the gravel road. Corrie Ten Boom and I clean out the back of a 3 ton and seed in the dark at Ryes. Leo Tolstoy’s Two Old Men, essential reading for those in business or in charge of anything no matter how insignificant. Joni Erickson Tada and I clean the plant room together, and later it gets painted bright white with the help of Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. Jan Johnson’s When the Soul Listens and I did a walk around on the Macdon header brought into the shop, help me see what I need to see and think through me Holy Spirit, you know more about this header than I do, and I know a lot.
G.K. Chesterton’s fiction driving semi loads of hay down from the hills, thank God for imagination. A Tale of Two Cities and running a chainsaw. Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin’s autobiographies walking on the treadmill and down a gravel road. The Allure of Gentleness lures me in every year, and over and over and over again, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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