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6月29日 HERE COME THE RAIN Well the rains are here and the yard is all happy. The garden is running in place all happy and sticking her tongue out at the pasture. i think the butterbeans are having a party and not wanting to invite the rest of the garden, but right now i am not stressing. The rains have stopped and now the garden looks all wet and happy. The watermelons are coming along just fine and there are four different kind of melons out there. i need to spray the plants because i see bugs coming around trying to get in on the eating party, and i don't want to share with nature any more.
i planted four different kinds of cucumbers, and one of them is really long and looks similar to squash but it is all cucumber. It is a thing of beauty to see the different things that GOD has blessed mankind with and to be opened to these differences. Life just never cease to amaze this little ol' country boy.
Phyllis and i are starting a compost and she's excited about being a gardener. She has really come a long way, every thing she used to plant usually died, we used to say that she had a black thumb. Now, however, she is doing a great job of growing things, i think being retired has helped in her concentration, and she is really more relaxed now that she is at home EVERYDAY. Man it has been such a revealation seeing how now i am dealing with the same issues that house wives have dealt with for forever! What to do with the now retired spouse, who has come home and re-arranged everything in the kitchen so that she can make dinner every once in a while. She's retired and now i have to get out of the house! i need the man version of Calgon to take me away!
Bro.ken MICHEAL JACKSON AIN'T DEAD Surprise surprise, MJ ain't dead! Now all you hysterical, I'm gonna kill myself because the king of pop is gone, folk can come back to earth and get a life. I have the inside scoop. MJ has been re-incarnated as the notorious B.I.G. Irony of ironies, MJ was born Black, died a skinny white man, and comes back as Biggie Smalls! And, he is still moonwalking and hitting the high notes. He is still the crotch grabbing heehee singing showman that you cry babies have all longed for since he died, only he is this big black guy with somoe extremely big soup coolers! Imagine the possibilities! Can't you just see the big black MJ standing on his toes leaning back and singing Beat It? I can! I guess is what make me the sicko that i am. So rest easy my MJ sickies, he is not dead, he has not been spotted in the local Wal Mart, but he is the new and improve MJ singing i love it when you call me big poppa!
bro.ken 6月12日 HARD WORK AND DEDICATION`` Well it is another day without rain here and the field is looking like the dust bowl. i went out to water the crops tonight, man it is so hot out there, and i think my water bill will be about a hundred dollars this month. It is beginning to look as if it would be cheaper to just go to the market and buy the vegetables and give them away. It never fails whenever you are doing something for GOD there will always be obstacles in the way that will test your faith and your patience. i'm preparing myself for the next ten days where there will be no rain and i will have to haul the hoses for teh next week to try and make these plants get up and start to bear.
Earlier today i went to see my other grand kids in McComb and i had a ball there with them. It gave me time to get some of the dust out of my eyes and throat and make the grand babies laugh. i see why my grand parents always had us over, the grand kids keep you young at heart and keep you with a reason to live and looking forward to seeing them get older, because you want to see what these little ones will eventually turn into when they are grown. If i live as long as my dad i will have another thirty- four years to hang out with the grand babies; that's long enough for me to see great grand babies and maybe even great great grand babies! i wonder if i will be able to make it to the birth of all of my grand babies? That would be awesome! So far i have made it to the birth of each child and each grand child. God has been good to me.
Back to the garden, i did see some of the bell peppers trying to make a comeback from the deer eating off the top of them. I am hoping that they will rebound and produce because that is one of the best of the give aways that we do. Everyone don't eat the rest of the crops but most people will use the bell peppers and the onions to go in their seasoning. i looked at the squash as i was watering the field and they are growing like mad, so i will have to pick them tomorrow and give them away. i also noticed that some of the cucumbers, that didn't get eaten by the deer, are beginning to make some cucumbers. YES! i can make a good veggie salad now, and the tomatoe plants are coming along really strong, ad that will give me a really great salad.
Well friends it has been good talking to you and pray for me that we get some rain down here so that the people can benefit from the garden and the love offerings can be giving and the community be blessed. As i have stated before i live in a very poor community and although i am not rich by no stretch of the imagination ( i am a retired postal employee who preach for free) i have been blessed tremendously by GOD to do what i do. So pray that we get some rain and that God will bless the field and we will be able to be a blessing to those in the community.
God bless you
bro.ken 6月6日 ALONE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT Today i am here alone but i am getting ready to go to bible study. i have been reading the lesson for Sunday school class tomorrow and i am already excited about the lesson. i just finished showering after coming out of the garden replanting butterbeans and cleaning grass. Man the ground was so hard, we haven't had rain in a while, even though it has rained all around us. The Lord be magnified, He is righteous in all of His doings and i will praise His wonderful name.
Thirty years ago, when i first came to Jesus, i was bombarded by the negativism up my family and friends. After eight years of being out there in the drug world and after twelve years of total rebellion from God, i'd come in out of the rain and what did i get from those i loved?! You'd think that they would all be happy for me, but noooooooooo, i got grief. i constantly heard the voiice of my friends as they said that i had lost my mind. My girlfriend, at the time, told me that i either had to put the bible down or leave her alone. When i went around my parents and my brothers all i heard was negatives.
It seemed, back then, that everything that i touched was turning to dung, and being a new convert i just couldn't understand all the animosity. One day, after crying for what seemed to be forever, i went off by myself and asked God why were they treating me so; and why was it that people seemed to love me more when i was out there as a sinner? God told me two things that day: Kenneth, I called you and not them, so you follow me and one day i will bring them along with us. And then he showed me Micah
Micah 7:5-6 (King James Version)
5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. Man, when i saw that i was blown away! More tears followed, He used two verses of scripture to cover all three of the areas that i was having problems with: My friends, the one that lieth in my bosom (Well come on, i was a fornicator before i was saved, and she was pregnant with my first child) and my family! Afterward He showed me the same thing about the family in Matthew and Luke and from that day on i got a better understanding of the thing that was happeniing to me. However, the single most important thing that came out of this was His telling me that He had called me and that i had to be obedient. this has stayed with me from that day forth, when i find my preaching falling on deaf ears, when i see that as a pastor i am barking up the wrong tree-as far as some people faith is concerned- i remember that God called me, not them. When i see that God is calling me to be holy, i have learned to understand that He has called me to that holiness, He may not have called those who i am talking to to that holiness. It matters not that they are in church, my girlfriend was in church even when i wasn't, she sung in the choir, and i thought me coming to Jesus would have made her happy; but i guess she was just a church goer, and to her and her family i had become a Jesus fanatic. i know it must have really been hard for them to accept, because here i was this radical that hated all things Jesus, and now i am a bible toting Jesus quoting fool. i took my Bible every where with me, i carried it in my back pocket and i wore it out within the first year and a half of having it. i can see why people thought i had gone crazy because i had made such a drastic change in my life. i went from a fornicator to abstinence in a matter of months. i got saved in April of 1979 and by Oct. of !979 i had quit dealing and doing drugs, quit smoking cigarettes, quit having sex, and lost all of the things that were gotten outside of teh will of God;including the girlfriend. Just so you know, she and i had a daughter together, and even though she and i didn't make it because i chose Jesus, my daughter and i have always had a strong relationship with each other. We talk almost daily and of all my kids ( Well i only have five, Phyllis and i have four boys) she is the one that looks most like me. She is now thirty, or she will be in July, and we have always enjoyed that closeness of a father/daughter. A little side note to all those dads who think just because the mother won't have anything to do with you, you don't have to do anything with your child, well my daughter never ever saw me comiing out of her moms bed and i was always there for her and her sisters; who are not my kids, but who also call me daddy. It is about the children, not the grown ups. The mom and i couldn't get on the same page, but there was only one page that had to be when it came to my child, and that was the one that said i took care of her spiritually, financially, emotionally, and lovingly! God called me, not the mother! So now i look at this walk that i am seeing before me, and i realize that this may ot be the walk for the rest of the church, but it is the walk that God has called me to walk. i will walk before Him holy, and my walk will be right with Him, and hopefully i will find grace in His eyes and those who i have prayed for, all these years will recieve the blessings of God. God Bless you, Love, Bro.ken 6月5日 BUILDING MY ARK Praise the LORD! i am so excited about the time that i am now in. We are living in the most important time in the history of the Word of GOD. There are so many things that are happening today that many thought they would never see the day that these things would come to pass. Well, i don't have any explanations for those things, i am just happy to be here and be on the side of the LORD, and to know that one day, when all is said and done, i will be able to go home with him and be with him for ever.
The thing that really get me excited about this time is that there was a time in my life when being with him was the last thing that i wanted to do. There was actually a time in my life when i didn't believe in the existence of GOD. Boy, talk about Agape'! Behold what manner of the love the Father harh bestowed on us that we are called the sons of GOD! He loved me when i didn't want him in my life, and now he has come and given me new life, an abundance of life, and he has given me joy unspeakable; there are times, still, when i think of the time when i ignored him, rejected him, slammed the door of my heart in his ace, and i just weep. How can some one love me so much?! Why would he love me when i couldn't stand him or any of his kind?!
Praise the LORD! He has shown me love unconditionally and taught me to look beyond the outward man and see the heart of those that i come in contact with. He taught me to look past the color of a man skin and see whose side he is on. i am truly blessed and it make no difference if i am the head, or just a strain of hair on the head, as long as the head is on the body of CHRIST, the bride that our beautiful Savior is coming back for, then everything is okay. i am excited to be in this time, a time when i can praise the LORD and lift up the name of JESUS and let the world know that there is, indeed, a reality in serving a true and living GOD. i am excited because i didn't have to be here; if satan would have had his way with me i wouldn't have been here but Praise the LORD his love said not so! Therefore i am here enjoying all these wonderful gifts that he gives, and breathing in the sweet savor of the victory that i have in him through his Son Jesus.
i am excited about the time that i live in, the moment that i am in that allow me the opportunity to tell you that GOD love you with all his heart and that you are precious in his sight, and it doesn't matter where you are right now, if you are in him, he is there with you; and if you are not in him, all you have to do is ask him to come in to your life. Trust me, he will be in there in a New York minute!
GOD BLESS
love
bro.ken FEEDING THE SHEEPWell finally i have solved the deer problem that i have been having. i put up an electric fence today. i hate having to do this, but farming is hard work. i am originally a city boy and farming is new to me, so when i plant an acre of crops the last thing i want to have to see is that the deer has gotten in the field and eaten up everything.
Before you all get upset with me please allow me to explain. Every year we plant the garden to feed the poor in our church, it is just something that the LORD has laid on my heart to do, and we raise the crop and take them to the church and allow the poor and the elderly to get fresh crop. My wife and the kids and i pick them and in certain cases we peel the peas and butterbeans and cut up the okra and prepare them for the freezer for some of the people, and for the younger folk who can afford it we sell them some of the crops, but at a reduced rate. Most of the time, however, we end up just giving the stuff away.
Because i started late with my setting out of the seeds for the peppers i ended up having to buy pepper plants and we had seventy- six plants and they were growing so beautifully, and then one day the deer decided that they would eat the peppers. Last year was the first year that i had ever seen deer eat peppers. We went through a long stretch where we didn't recieve any rain here and the vegetation was scarce so i guess the deer said "Catch where catch can!" and they ate up all the peppers. We had cayenne, jalapeno, and hot banana peppers and they ate them all. So i wasn't as surprised to see them eat the bell peppers this year, just disappointed, because i was so looking forward to being able to give away so much more his year. We wanted to break the record that we sat in 1999 of feeding two hundred and fifty families from the garden. Well God had another plan this year. i just thought that this year would be so different from the other years, seeing that this is the thirtied anniversary of my salvation. i just had a feeling (and still do ) that God was going to do something special with me this year.
Anyway, back to the fence. We had planted nine rows of okra, five cowhorn and four of a different breed that is not as itchy and slimy as the cowhorn, and we had five rows of pink eye peas (my favorite) eight rows of crowder peas, five rows of butterbeans, five rows of squash, five rows of cucumbers, two rows of tomatoes, four rows of watermelons, three rows of canteloupes, five rows of purple hull peas, and i'm missing soomething else, but you get the picture. Well the dirty little old deer came and ate the tops out of everything except the squash, which i have never eaten and it doesn't matter how it has been cooked, and the watermelons...okay so i like the watermelons. (CORN that;s what i was missing, we have five rows of it, three different varieties, and the deer ate the tops of them, too) Well you can imagine how heartbreaking this was to wake up to and see. Add to this the fact that i am on disability with three disc messed up in my back, athritis in my left hip, knees that pop whenever i get up, sciatica and plantar fascitis in both feet and you can see my frustration. So after using all the rememdies that old farmers told me to do, putting the the empty milk jugs on sticks, hanging plastic bags around the garden, putting irish spring soap on sticks around the garden, and even leaving some of my clothes in the garden ( really, one year i left out of the garden with just my underwear on, my wife saw me coming to the house with no pants, shoes, socks, or shirt and said that it was a good thing that we don't have neighbors because they would have me arrested) to no avail, i finally broke down and bought the material to put the fence up, so before you all get on me for being cruel to bambi and his family remember this, the county agent told me to put down some lead when i asked what i could do to get rid of the deer. Silly me, i asked where do i get lead from, and he smile and said " you really are a city boy aren't you ken? the best way to rid yourself of your deer problem is to SHOOT them!) The fence will only give them a slight jolt that, hopefully will only make them not want to come back around.
Now tell me, do you love the deer more than you love the people that we will hopefully feed from this garden? and if you have a better idea, one that actually work, please pass it on to me. i think the deer are really beautiful animals and i have never hunted them in my life but they are also a bunch of pest; all they don't eat, they will stomp! Pray for me,
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