Wow! What a glorious morning and start to my day. I was up early creating a bracelet for someone as a thank you gift. I created a bracelet for a woman that blessed me with a pasta machine. I guess I am going to make homemade pasta. I have made homemade noodles before but that was with rolling out the dough with a rolling pin and then hand cutting the noodles. Now, I have a machine that will roll the dough and then cut it to whatever my hearts desire is in making. That is wonderful. I then was vacillating whether or not to go walking this morning. I almost didn't but then something inside of me said go and walk. I did and was surprisingly blessed with what I saw.
My all time favorite things to see in field country are the planting in the spring and the harvesting of the crop in the fall. I live by a farm and I was becoming quite concerned that the corn was not harvested yet. I kept thinking to myself why would anyone invest the expense of planting a field and then let the crop wither away and lose the harvest.
At work this week I learned the importance of "probing" for answers when having a conversation with a person. The definition of probing means to examine or investigate thoroughly. That is what I did today. As I walked I was blessed with seeing the corn being harvested. I saw a man that worked for the farm and asked the questions I always thought about when I would drive past farms. It was not too late to harvest the crop, last years crops were being harvested throughout the winter into March. It is very costly every aspect of farming, I was told also when I commented that the big machines they use to harvest are expensive. I inquired about the huge tires that are on the machines. It was explained to me that the way they are made is because there will come a point when it is important for them to float on the ground so to speak when later on the ground may become wet and you do not want a tire sinking into the ground. This corn that was harvested will be used for a variety of things such as corn meal. The best part of this experience was as I stopped to talk with this man the big harvest machine, I think it is called a combine, was coming in from the field to unload the corn. I got to watch the corn be released from the combine and pour into a big truck. It was the neatest experience to see this. As I was standing there and the corn was being fed into the truck it was as if little flakes of corn so to speak were raining down in the sky. As I walked back home I was so thrilled that the Lord remembered me and how I wanted to see the harvest this year and I did!!!
As I write this I still have a few flecks of the corn flakes (not the stuff in the box that you eat for breakfast) in my hair. Did you know that it does not produce a better crop if you do not till or turn the soil over after the harvest? There are apparently two schools of thought when it comes to this. I always thought that the farmers that turned the soil over after the harvest would have better crops the next season. Not so, from what I learned today. Again, all I can say is that God is faithful. He really does listen to the desires of your heart it is a matter of you being willing to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit to get to where you need to go and do what you need to do to be placed in the position to receive those desires in your heart. Are you willing to follow the promptings of the Lord today? I did and I am glad that I did.
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