Almost as though Someone designed it.
The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.
The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.
The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.
The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.
The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.
The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.
The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.
The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.
Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.
Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.
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In the middle of all the curses and suffering of Lamentations(3:21-26) is this….
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
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Damer retweeted
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Joan Bakewell “Some say a Christian virtue is to be tolerant of other people’s views. Do you disapprove of that?”
Martyn Lloyd Jones “I am bound to. Christ Himself said, I am the way the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”
I cried myself to sleep the night the Dolphins ruined the Bears perfect season. This video brings back all the joys of that season to a young 14 year old me.
The best ending to a 30 for 30: the 1985 Bears. When players are asked if they would have to do it all over again even with the aches and pains that follow, they would in a blink.
With a Buddy Ryan letter, Mike Ditka love and respect, and Moneyball music (The Mighty Rio Grande).
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This appears to be accelerating.
Texas mom arrested for stabbing husband and two young kids
notthebee.com/article/texas-…
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Trying to keep a straight face while my wife argues with the 16 year old over a driving contract.
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