28Apr 08
What is your view of family fun?
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Let’s see who can dig, turn, and chop up the most dirt!
On your mark get set GO!
We all need to learn to enjoy hard work! Being diligent: is visualizing each task from the Lord and using all my energies to accomplish it. And thoroughness: knowing what factors will diminish the effectiveness of my work or words if neglected. These are so key in us having an impact and an influence on those we are serving and working with.
We recently had a need to prepare a 25×25 garden out on our 90 acres. It could have been a lengthy process for one or two people doing it by themselves, but with ELEVEN it went amazingly fast!! Everyone had such joy and enthusiasm in digging and chopping up the ground which will bring us a wonderful harvest this summer if the Lord wills.
Looking back over that day I realized once again that I am the one that controls my outlook! If one person would have decided to let their feelings control their outlook and viewed this time of work as a burden and a bore it would have affected the whole group.
I don’t think we truly understand how much we impact those around us. People are watching us. People are looking for role models! How are we responding to our authorities? How do we interact with are peers? Are we being leaders or are we just following the crowd? Do you grumble over hard work? Do you up hold the standards of your authorities even when others are not?
We need to be different! Be willing to be odd. 2Timothy 3:14 says “Yea and all they that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” Continue to be loyal to those God has placed over you. Continue to be an enthusiastic, grateful and faithful follower of Jesus Christ! View each task you are given as if Jesus Himself was assigning it to you and use all of your energies to accomplish it!
Working as a family has been a real encouragment to me! Lots of progress goes on when we work together! Thankyou Wilkes Team
Great perspective Wilkesteam!
Kenan, you didn’t even use the fact that your arm was in a sling as an excuse to get out of work. Way to encourage the team spirit!
That’s a nice big area. What are you planning to plant?
That is very interesting. The first garden we started here was about 25′ by 25′! It turned out to be just right for a 100′ of Deer-X which was available from the local hardware store, easy to put up, and protected it from the deer all year. It was James and I that dug it up with shovels, just like in your pictures. (He blessed me with enthusiasm for digging again this year!) We were able to start in March and turned it a second time before planting so we didn’t have a lot of weed trouble. (Of course it was close to the house and that made it easier stay in control of things.) Can’t wait to see it this summer when full of neat rows of lush greenness! I know from experience that even a little 25′ by 25′ piece of ground can be a little patch of paradise. The work has just started; but with Christ-like character, the rest will be just as fun!
Way to work together, Wilkesteam! Many hands make light work. This is a great word, Jennifer! The way we choose to look at any given situation definitely determines our enjoyment of it.
Whoopee! How good it felt to dig in the dirt once again. Daniel’s leadership really made the task a success. He had a planned method to which systematic team work was applied that resulted in unexpected accomplishment.
On a trip out there since the work was completed, we noticed the newly planted hoof marks of a curious deer right through the garden bed (they’re watching
). We’ll have to look in to the deer guard you mentioned, Michael.