Patrick Vallee

Winter so often feels like a time of stagnation and hibernation. As a farmer, I feel like time is wasted in the winter. It's the perfect time to get more work done, but it's always too cold, or too wet, or too snowy, or too windy. While we sit uninspired staring at so much frozen potential, Jesus continues to water the seeds we planted in better weather. He tends to His garden even when all we see is stagnation and hibernation. The tent one of the families was living in was damaged in the...

Sooooooo, it turns out my wife was right again; she’s been warning me to slow down for months, but we needed to finish the kitchen and guest room before the winter set in, or all seven of us would again have to cram into the little cabin until Spring. Now, I’m enjoying two weeks of forced vacation because of a chainsaw accident that quite literally tried to “cut me off at the knee.” It hasn’t been all bad though. I finally had the time to scout out an appropriate tree to sit under while...

"And they went into the ark, to Noah, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life." - Genesis 7:15 We don't yet have two of...