Sunday, October 16, 2016

Vertigo

I learned a new word and it's meaning this past week. Vertigo is a term used when a couple of small rocks come loose between a persons ears and everything turns upside down causing one to have no balance, become dizzy, and get really sick.
We were combining and I started  having trouble focusing and couldn't keep the corn head snouts in between the 12 corn rows. Kurt and Brad helped me in a pickup and Kurt and Jan took me to the ER where after some IVs and rest the little rocks settled down.
We've had a topsy-turvy week trying to harvest soybeans only to go back to combining corn every time the weather doesn't cooperate. 
When the soybeans get to 14% moisture we would start harvesting and not stop until the grain sample went above 14% again.
 We have also been chiseling getting ready for next years corn on corn acres.
 Mike had a good week building terraces.
 Karl has been hauling hog manure.
Karl and Kristin also got in 5600 weaner pigs this past week. Malaki is helping his dad.
We had a shocker this week. My cousin Val's husband Mike passed away suddenly Wednesday. Mike was 54. They live in Sully and have four children. We're thinking about and praying for you and your family Val.
The pipeline comes diagonally through our area. It really turns things upside down as it buries a 30" pipe. It's amazing how much equipment is on the job and how many folks are working on the project.
 One morning around 5 am we woke up to rain showers so 8 of us went out for breakfast.
 Kevin and Linda had their second grandson this week. Congratulations to parents, John and Lisa.
As we were finishing up for the day I came home late one night, parked by the shop, and saw this cross laying next to the office. No one on our crew knows who brought it or how it showed up. After wondering for a minute how it got there it then became a vivid reminder to me that the One who created me voluntarily came down from heaven, allowed His life to be turned upside down unjustly, paid for my wrongs with his life, and then conquered death and misery by His resurrection.   
 I think it's safe to say that our country is pretty upside down right now and we have more than a couple of rocks loose in our culture. Government can't fix our country. Politics right now is a result of our culture. And our current culture is a result of good people being content, apathetic, and unengaged. 
So often we go to church to remember, believe, and agree. We don't act. We don't apply. We seem to want no part of influencing the upside down stuff. I heard Chuck on the radio say that application is obedience in action. Hearing truth and agreeing with it is not God's end game. He wants us to act, to apply our faith, and to help fix loose rocks.


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