Newest update: I just came in from chores to find the calf breathing it's last. Jacob and I just hauled him out to the loader bucket and he is taking the body out to the dead hole. The end!
Update: said baby calf froze 3 of his 4 feet so we brought him in the house and put a hot water bottle on his belly and rubbed him down and have a heater running nearby to help him warm up. I put paste in his mouth. I put 2 crushed aspirin, plus 12 drops of cayenne pepper, in the colostrum which Jacob and I just tube fed the little fella. I put eucalyptus oil in his nose and on his feet. I hugged him and blew him kisses and rubbed him dry on his head and prayed (not necessarily in that order) and am going to do some BodyTalk for him as I "Relax" in the tub. PLEASE PRAY FOR RANCHERS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!!!!!!!!! Please pray for this little fellow to heal and to be able to walk and keep up with the herd all Summer!!!
Happy Sabbath everyone!
We had been doing so well keeping up with all of the stresses of calving in blizzards when it happened. In one day, meaning a 24 hour period, we lost 3 calves this week. THREE cute, precious, darling baby calves in one day each which probably would have brought from $600 to $1100 next year. That's HARD to swallow!!!
I watched as people got down on themselves because maybe we should have gone out in the blizzards every half hour instead of every 2 hours DAY AND NIGHT! Maybe we should have driven out in the big pasture in blinding blizzards to retrieve the baby from the snow bank of the idiot cow who just could not stay in the protection of the barn to deliver her precious bundle into the world. Maybe, MAYbe, MAYBE..................................................................................................
It's hard, when there is so much at risk, not to think constantly of checking the cows and getting them in the barn but this wears us down. Last night I watched all 3 of our guys work nearly an hour to get ONE mama and baby in the barn and they put in 4.
Now it's just Jacob and I completely in charge for the next 2 days. He has a cow who just had a calf out in the pasture which was laying flat out which usually means that they will die if not carried to a warmer location. However, the mother was right by it and licking it and it was responding so we felt that it was best to leave them alone together. Of course we'll check in about an hour to see if it is up and nursing. Was that the right thing to do?????????????
All of this wondering, especially when all of the pens in the barn are already filled with mamas and babies who needed to get out of the cold (and who almost killed some of us getting them there), is VERY stressful. Now, if you know me at all, you know that the last thing I need for my health issues is stress! This time of year, though, is the MOST stressful time of all as we struggle against the weather to keep those fragile little ones alive long enough to get up and start nursing. Then they usually can take a bit more cold weather!
All this being said, I will share that Pastor Joseph Prince (
www.josephprince.org) is SUCH a blessing to me. Every morning I read his daily meditation on God's goodness to us and it picks up my spirits. This morning is no exception so I share it with you with prayers that you, too, will use these concepts to help you overcome ALL challenges in your lives.
In the meantime, any prayers said for Jacob and I today and tomorrow would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's to nice, WARM weather
Dawn
PS Jacob just came in to say that we need to get the calf in the kitchen to warm up.
When
the devil accuses us of having done wrong and tells us that we don’t deserve
God’s blessings, what should we do? Well, the Lord showed me one day what we are
to do. We are to point everything back to Jesus, who qualifies us for all of
God’s blessings.
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So
when the devil says, “You are not righteous enough,” just look to Jesus and
declare, “He is my righteousness!”
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When
the devil says, “You are not holy enough,” just look to Jesus and declare, “He
is my sanctification!”
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When
the devil says, “You don’t deserve to be healed,” just look to Jesus and
declare, “By His stripes I am healed!”
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When
the devil says, “You don’t qualify for the blessing,” just look to Jesus and
declare, “He is my qualification!”
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Each
time you point everything back to Jesus, the devil has nothing to say because
Jesus qualifies you for all of God’s blessings. In and of yourself, you do not
qualify. Without Christ, there is nothing good in you which can qualify
you.
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But
with Christ, your disqualification becomes your qualification for the
undeserved, unearned and unmerited blessings of God. And because God puts your
life in Christ (Colossians 3:3), who is the all-deserving one, you become
all-deserving. Because you are in Christ, you are qualified.
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Jesus
qualifies you because He died for you and gave you a blood-bought right to every
blessing of God. You have a blood-bought right to a life full of meaning,
purpose and abundance. You have a blood-bought right to walk in divine health.
You have a blood-bought right to God’s provision even when the economy is bad.
You have a blood-bought right to preferential treatment because God favors you.
You have a blood-bought right to the good life!
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My
friend, you have a right to all these blessings not because you are good, but
because Jesus shed His blood and qualified you to have them. So don’t let the
devil or anyone tell you that you can’t expect to walk in the blessings of
God!
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