Lead us Not into {the American} Temptation

The Lord's Prayer
Temptation
. The American Dream. The two car garage, with two cars actually inside, a fancy house with everything inside we could ever need to clutter the heck out of every nook and craning in the dream house; that we do not actually own because we are up to our ears in dept trying to keep up with the “Jones”.

Temptation. The innate ability inside all of us to hoard way more than our daily bread like we are the Israelite’s hoarding manna in the wilderness.

Temptation. The ability to idolize material possessions or any spiritual blessings.

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Women make Agriculture Look Good

Once upon a time I owned a shirt (or maybe two) that I loved with all of the National FFA Organization Agriculture passion in side of me. And people, at the time, that was a lot! The shirt was one of my all time favorite graphic fitted tees, because what high school kid in the early 2000’s did not like a good graphic tee?!

The shirt was an FFA graphic black tee with lipstick writing saying,  “women make agriculture look good.” I have searched high and low for a picture of the shirt and have come up short. But, trust me, it was a dandy one! 😉

Today, I remembered this shirt as I watched several women getting after it on the Abaana’s Hope farm. It is the first harvest of the year in Northern Uganda and there is a lot of work to be done the old school way by manual labor without a tractor.

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God Bless America

Living in another country has opened my eyes more to how blessed I am to have been raised in land of the free because of the brave. I love and miss my native land, but I am thankful I have a new found respect for what it means to be an American and for all of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that America can be the land of the free.  Continue reading