Faith, Family and Farming

Yesterday we laid to rest the staple of my small Van Cleave community!  A powerful and mighty woman, who was small but so strong in her Faith, her Family and most importantly her love of Farming!!  She was a kind, giving, and faithful servant.  I remember my husband calling one day and saying "when you get off work, it is time for us to visit with Charles and Bobbi."  Who, what, where I asked..............

Needless to say they became one of the pushers in our lives, the pusher who generously sold us our first 2 acres to put a house, and then the farm next to us.  The pusher who backed our thoughts when my husband wanted to farm!  We were young and poor, but rich in spirit from the 2 of them!!!  They lost their only child when he was young............and trouble pained their lives for years.  But God moved mountains in their lives with so many that he sent to help fill the void they painfully missed.  And that fall day, we became one of them.

My oldest child was born on the day that years and years ago their son passed away...........tragic to their heart..............I feel God birthed that baby on that day to put back a piece of joy where it was gone.  She was the child that they watched out their window when she played in the yard............and the one that they never cleaned the glass on the door window so Ms. Bobbi could look at her hand prints.  Ms. Bobbi would say you can still see thru the glass, but the hand print is the reminder that she was there!!!  Oh how true, we always are first to clean away the smudges but when left alone they are reminders that make us better and see how far we have come. 

She became frail with time, but always wanted to know what was going on in the fields!!!  Her faith was strong, her family even stronger by those she called children that filled her void, and her love of the farm never changed!!  Bless is the woman that could do so much, as she laid her hands in the dirt yesterday.....I truly know "her heart is still at work"!