Spring symbolizes newness. The earth is slowly warming up, bulbs start to peek through the sleepy earth and burst forth in colorful blossoms, trees bud, and spring rains fall. We humans seem to slowly stumble almost as if from a snowy stupor into the bright and welcoming sunshine to claim the new season.
New showed up at my front door at 9 a.m. on February 23. (Thank you, Amazon and Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.) My just released devotional, Growing the Fruit of the Spirit: 100 Devotions for Farm Families, filled boxes just beckoning to be opened. Even more thrilling was the God-timed delivery of the tomes. My coauthor, Beth Gormong, and I were scheduled to deliver a breakout session, “City girls to farm wives: Tools of the Trade,” at 11 a.m. that morning during the Agriculture Women Engage conference in Terre Haute. We also hoped to have a book signing during the luncheon. And it happened! New is seeing my name on those heavy Amazon boxes. New is holding one of the books in my hands and skimming through it just to make sure my name was really in it throughout. New is seeing the pastoral morning scene of the sun rising and a few of our family’s Polled Hereford cattle grazing in the pasture on the cover. New is reveling in reading Beth’s and my names on the cover and realizing our dream had come true. And lest I forget, our dream germinated not only in our own hearts but in our husbands as well. Beth and I individually had considered writing a farm life devotional from the perspective of us both being city girls who married farm boys. Unbeknownst to us, our farmer husbands individually thought we should ask each other to write a book together. Beth and I met up for lunch together to catch up on our lives and both of us shared about our husband’s recommendations. Such a God moment! How has “new” showed up at your door? The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Psalm 24:1
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Denise K Schnarr
6/30/2023 06:16:57 pm
I just met you at Pike County Public Library,Petersburg, IN
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9/4/2023 06:12:15 am
Hi Denise,
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