6-10-09
OUT ON THE RANCH it is raining sheets and sheets of rain. A minute ago it was raining so hard we couldn’t see to the other side of our front yard. We have a pergola that buckled under the force of the wind. I guess I am going to have to amend my prayers, and dial them down just a tad. I have been praying for rain, but not Noah’s flood. I am not complaining just trying to be humorous. I will take a buckled pergola for a good soaker (THANK YOU JESUS). This country is all about the rain. If we get rain it a lush land, and without it we soon become a desert. We are on the fringe. East of us they get a lot more moisture and West of us they hardly get any. This spring has been marvelous for moisture and everything is bright and green.

Last night we had a couple of young ladies stay on the ranch with us from Holland. They were both Medical Doctors in their twenties. They had been to a medical conference in Chicago, and were doing the Route 66 adventure to Amarillo. It was a joy to have them with us. They were personable, bright, beautiful, and wonderful in conversation. It really was a delight. I told them they were sent by God to encourage us. It really is amazing how getting out of yourself and serving someone else can lift your spirits. And these girls were so precious they were easy to serve. I wish we could keep them in Western Oklahoma, but we will be satisfied with a return visit some day in the future.

1 Peter 4:9
9 Practice hospitality to one another (those of the household of faith). [Be hospitable, be a lover of strangers, with brotherly affection for the unknown guests, the foreigners, the poor, and all others who come your way who are of Christ's body.] And [in each instance] do it ungrudgingly (cordially and graciously, without complaining but as representing Him).
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GOD BLESS
ALWAYS YOUR FRIEND
RIDGE