Category Archives: Reliances

Convergence: Wake Up, Israel, Bonhoeffer Book Review

Rarely do so many threads of thought come together to form their own braid, truths woven together to make something new.  Most days, I see through a mirror darkly .  But God in His kindness often gives me glimpses of … Continue reading

Prairie Finance

Some call it cheap.  Some have said we’re thrifty, clearly derisive of us backwater rednecks.  Pa and I call it peace. The Boyle prairie dwellers have no debt.  Pa fixes most everything that breaks, and he builds many of the … Continue reading

Self Reliance

Pioneers “get” the need for self-reliance. But in our upside-down world, self-reliance has come to have a whole ‘nother meaning from what the good Lord intended. Truth is, the only thing we can rely on (other than the good Lord, … Continue reading

Wake Up!

It’s time to wake up.  But it’s only 3am. No, cows don’t need milking at Little House.  Something more important is afoot:  prayer. Pretty regular, I’m a middle-of-the-night-pray-er.  Used to be irritating, frustrating, awakening from sweet sleep.  But I’ve learned … Continue reading