Our journal of what we pray is our sojourn of life along the narrow way, even the old paths, submitting to the Bible as a light unto both.
Graciously again, God has granted another calf to be born to one of our cows. This time it’s Rosalinda (half sister of the cow in the previous blog post), and she had a little bull calf. As you can see, he’s sort of chocolate brown; and a bear is brown; so we decided to call him Bernardo, which in Spanish means “bold as a bear.”
And here he is with his mother:
And here’s a quick video:
As always, we are grateful to the Lord for granting another healthy birth and increase of the herd.
— David
The Lord has graciously granted another calf, a little heifer, to one of our other heifers Rociada, which means this is her first calf! Rociada comes from one of our cows Rosa; and in continuing with the naming tradition of Rosa and Spanish names for our Longhorns, we decided to name this new calf after a type of old garden rose called Alba that has white and pink blossoms, which is also the Spanish name that means “dawn.”
And so, here is our new heifer Alba:
And a video:
We thank God once again for this provision of the new calf; and we pray she is productive for ourselves and others, according to God’s will.
— David
I heard a minister ask something similar to this once on the radio…
Quick question:
If you consider yourself a Christian, and that you made a free-will decision to have faith in God…
Think of a person you know who has heard the same Gospel you have but has rejected it…
Assuming that making a decision to believe in Christ is a better one than rejecting Him, what about you allowed you to make that better decision? It had to be something about you that caused you to choose that way. And it had to be something better than the person choosing against. Was it your better intelligence? Your better analytic capabilities? Your better ability to understand things, even though you both heard the same gospel message? Something had to be better about you…what was it?
Hmmmmmm……..
That’s why the Bible declares that God’s sovereign will is the cause of the gracious gifts of faith and belief in Him, not a person’s “free will” — lest any man should boast (of himself over the glory that is only due God):
John 1:12-13 – “12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.“
John 6:29 – “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.“
John 6:44 – “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.“
John 6:65 – “And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.“
Eph 2:8-9 – “8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.“
Phil 1:29 – “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;“
Jam 1:18 – “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.“
— David
The Lord has graciously granted us a new little heifer calf! She got easily spooked one day, and ended up in a former cellar hole next to a shack that came with the property. At some point during that escapade, she injured her hoof; and it was bleeding. However, after several days, it seems she is getting around fine; and is even running around in the evenings.
Please say hello to Rafaela, which in Spanish means “healed of God”:
And here is a quick video:
We again thank God for His provisions, spiritual and temporal, and for His granting a heifer calf and increasing the herd.
— David
And again, God graciously granted two more kids to be born to one of our nannies. This time it’s Winnie, with Shatner being the sire; and they produced two little bucks.
Please say hello to Bert (on the left) and Ernie (on the right):
And here’s their moving picture (with not a lot of movement 🙂 ). This was about a week ago. Also, by this time, we had 17 goats total:
We thought we’d also include a video of all the goat kids being more active. I mention they sit around all day; actually, they sort of only do that for the first several days, but then are old enough to keep up eating with the herd throughout the day, although they are more active in the morning and at night. The video’s a little long, but there are some fun parts throughout it. And, you’ll get to see how Bert and Ernie’s faces look almost exactly alike:
As always, we are, and may we ever be, thankful to the Lord for all of His provisions; and we pray He grant us wisdom and guidance in the care and use of these animals, for His glory.
— David
Once again, the Lord graciously granted new kids to be born to one of our goats Betsy, who’s full Nubian; and with our full Nubian billy Shatner, the kids are full Nubian as well.
And here they are: please meet Rhett (on the right) and Scarlett (on the left):
Here is some live-action resting 🙂 . And actually, as of this video, we had 15 goats:
We are again very grateful to God for allowing us these provisions, and pray these kids become productive members of the herd.
— David
A few months ago we did a blog post about our goat kids graduation, where we put all the does with the bucks we had planned for them, the first generation offspring does to be with a buck for the first time. Well, a couple of days ago, the Lord graciously granted our first second generation kid, a buck, to our Nubian doe Marie. His sire was Eastwood, who I recently mentioned had died during the winter. But, he apparently helped bring along Marie’s first kid; and in honor of him, we’re calling the new kid “Woodrow.”
He has his father’s colors; and he sure seemed large for a new-born; but I have a feeling we’re used to twins and triplets, who probably end up a little smaller than a single kid might, although I can’t be sure. It appears he’s doing pretty well:
Here he is in action. The whining goat in the background is Pammy, who recently gave birth as well:
We are thankful once again to God for His graces and mercies in granting this healthy new provision to us.
— David
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