November 6, 2024 Dixie is truly sweet and loving and has been blessing the people on the way to class and in class. She loves gazing into my eyes and does this to almost anyone. While I’ve been needing her to grow into a reliable sheepdog, she’s definitely reliable when it comes to loving people….
November 4, 2024 Butterflies and geckos. Yesterday on the way to church, I noticed the orange butterfly about to land on nearby shrubbery. I’m whipping my phone out, because I love taking pictures of God’s creatures. After capturing that image, and getting into the car, another species fluttered across the lawn, so that was fun….
November 3, 2024 Listening to the Bible project’s “Building a House on the Rock” was my daily bread this morning. I felt peace come over me. The podcast’s imagery and words built a new frame of reference where I’m with Jesus, and he is alive. His resurrection is the new building I can live within….
November 2, 2024 By listening to Bible Project each day, I find that the richness of God’s Words is so extensive and the parts that elude my understanding need to go through a grid of looking at God’s declarations about himself and the whole story of Jesus. His choices, his emotions, his mysterious teachings, his…
What a conundrum. God didn’t just create the world and then sit down and observe how we treat it and each other. Take flooding alone; This is occurring on a scale beyond recorded history. How is it these clouds park over a region and dump a whole year’s worth of rain? Why is this occurring?…
October 25, 2024 Had to calm down after looking for the sheep in Waimea. I use two cellular cameras to check on them when I’m in Kona. When scanning the field with the first one, I panned right and left and NO sheep appeared! Aaah! Then I wanted to check the video logs, but before…
October 23, 2024 I still default to the idea that life’s troubles cause me to find solutions by myself. Traumatic incidents create a fear called “something is about to happen again,” I feel it is imperative to prevent it, and most of the time, it’s not even a life and death situation. I’m discovering one…
October 16, 2024 Healthy and content sheep do skip, jump, and do “silly” things. They also rest longer, or they sometimes butt their heads together. They might stand in a group or go out and “dance.” This place of satisfaction is easier to see in young lambs being well-fed by their moms. They will have lamb…
October 15, 2024 Some of the sheep just tolerate me. This is from another shepherdess who has a YouTube channel. So being near to her sheep daily doesn’t break down their wariness and reluctance to move closer to her. I find this pretty interesting. That’s why when a new sheep comes up to investigate me,…
What I wish my sheep would recognize: 1. That I’ve shown up to reset the fences so new feed is provided. 2. That their health is dependent on some unfavorable medicine poured down their throat. 3. That they don’t need to be afraid of me, but still move in the direction I indicate. From the…