I took a break from blogging, as I see it the break was over a year but now I am making an effort to bring my farm to the Internet. According to the farm Bureau over 98% of Americans live off the farm meaning cities and since I am one person in the 2% of Americans living on a working farm, I feel it is my responsibility to let you know how I live and Where I come from. I read a lot of books, everyone in my family are avid readers but lately I have been reading about city women coming into the county and marring ranchers. These women have become famous for their unique way of telling the world about their wonderful husbands and their new found appreciation for farming. Living in a farming community and going to an Agricultural college, the lust and appreciation for farming and our farm men wasn't lost on me. What is a challenge is explaining the lifestyle, the only way of life I have ever known, and how it compares to a life in the city. I am not as eloquent as those women previously mentioned, I have never wore or physically touched a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes so bear with me. Maybe this blog wont just teach you about Where I Come From but will also a window into where YOU Come from!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thursday, February 4, 2010
How to reach your full potential for God.
How to reach your full potential for God.
This book is a spiritual guide for people who have strayed or thought they have lost their way. Although, I think it would benefit anyone who needed encouragement and help with their own spirituality. I read this during a time of extreme personal trials and although there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to take a lot of time to reach the end. To write a review on something as personal as your walk with God is difficult. Everyone will find something unique and right-on about this book and I think it is important for everyone to read the book and be reminded on what your strengths are. I read this as a guide for how I should live my life and not a reminder of all the ways I have messed up until now. It is natural to stumble and fall but the quicker you pick youself up and get back on track the better you will be. I would highly recommend it!
This book is a spiritual guide for people who have strayed or thought they have lost their way. Although, I think it would benefit anyone who needed encouragement and help with their own spirituality. I read this during a time of extreme personal trials and although there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to take a lot of time to reach the end. To write a review on something as personal as your walk with God is difficult. Everyone will find something unique and right-on about this book and I think it is important for everyone to read the book and be reminded on what your strengths are. I read this as a guide for how I should live my life and not a reminder of all the ways I have messed up until now. It is natural to stumble and fall but the quicker you pick youself up and get back on track the better you will be. I would highly recommend it!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
kabul 24
Kabul 24 by Henry Arnold and Ben Pearson
Kabul 24 is a visit to Afghanistan before many people in America knew who the Taliban was and what it stood for. A great story of personal conviction and internal determination, Kabul 24, tells the story of eight SNI aid workers capture and imprisonment in a Taliban region. I love books like this that take you away from your current situation and place you in the middle of a war far away from your cozy couch. No matter what is asked from the captives, they maintain an overwhelming sense of hope and faith that sees them through this event. A chilling and haunting tale, Kabul 24 is a great read for anyone interested in stories about human triumph or stories about faith in challenging situations.
Danielle
Thomas Nelson book Review Blogger
Kabul 24 is a visit to Afghanistan before many people in America knew who the Taliban was and what it stood for. A great story of personal conviction and internal determination, Kabul 24, tells the story of eight SNI aid workers capture and imprisonment in a Taliban region. I love books like this that take you away from your current situation and place you in the middle of a war far away from your cozy couch. No matter what is asked from the captives, they maintain an overwhelming sense of hope and faith that sees them through this event. A chilling and haunting tale, Kabul 24 is a great read for anyone interested in stories about human triumph or stories about faith in challenging situations.
Danielle
Thomas Nelson book Review Blogger
Monday, October 5, 2009
Find Your Strongest Life Book Review
Find your strongest life by Marcus Buckingham, gives examples of women from different backgrounds and why the choices made affec their lives in either a negative or positive way. An easy to understand and quick read, Find your strongest life, makes many good suggestions on how to be true to yourself.
Overall, this book was a compellation of ideas on how to make better choices for yourself and family. It would have been helpful to have the website available for access and see what type of person I am but I agree with his theory for happiness. Women work away from home and have to balance family life, add in the ability to nurture and grow a healthy marriage and there are bound to be times when you can feel overwhelmed. Find your strongest life, does not focus on what makes you happy he leaves that up to you to decide but it explains how the choice you make effect your overall happiness. For example, you take a job with a better paycheck to make a more comfortable life for yourself and family but when you add in the extra stress on yourself and hours away from home, it makes for an unhappy family. In this situation, the money may be helpful but what are you willing to sacrifice for financial excess, as opposed to family bonding. Find your strongest life is a great addition to the other business/family life books on the shelf but it was not much different from the other books available on the subject. However, I would recommend this book to women who need guidance, due to the fact it is quick and easy to understand, making it wonderful for busy women.
Overall, this book was a compellation of ideas on how to make better choices for yourself and family. It would have been helpful to have the website available for access and see what type of person I am but I agree with his theory for happiness. Women work away from home and have to balance family life, add in the ability to nurture and grow a healthy marriage and there are bound to be times when you can feel overwhelmed. Find your strongest life, does not focus on what makes you happy he leaves that up to you to decide but it explains how the choice you make effect your overall happiness. For example, you take a job with a better paycheck to make a more comfortable life for yourself and family but when you add in the extra stress on yourself and hours away from home, it makes for an unhappy family. In this situation, the money may be helpful but what are you willing to sacrifice for financial excess, as opposed to family bonding. Find your strongest life is a great addition to the other business/family life books on the shelf but it was not much different from the other books available on the subject. However, I would recommend this book to women who need guidance, due to the fact it is quick and easy to understand, making it wonderful for busy women.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Sarah's Key
Book Information
Sarah’s Key
By: Tatiana De Rosnay
The phrase, “If these walls could talk” becomes a cornerstone for Sarah’s Key, in this instance the walls not only talk they scream! A tragic story, so intense it is locked away for generations.
The story beings with Sarah’s family being confronted by the Nazi having to be transferred to a holding facility within France to await deportation to a concentration camp. In an attempt to hide her brother, she places him in a secret hiding place, thinking she will be able to come back and get him later. Time passes and when she does return to the cupboard, she finds it is too late to save him. The parallel with Julia Jarmond begins when her family begins renovating the same apartment occupied by Sarah before the Nazi invasion and the same location where her brother died. Sarah’s whereabouts become lost mid-way through the book and the focus turns to Julia, who unlocks Sarah’s past and changes her own life.
Subtly addicting, Sarah’s Key, requires the reader to remember the victims of the holocaust and paints a vivid picture of the struggle to survivor after that chapter of life has closed. The question remains, what story do your walls possess and would you want to know even if they wanted to tell you?
Sarah’s Key
By: Tatiana De Rosnay
The phrase, “If these walls could talk” becomes a cornerstone for Sarah’s Key, in this instance the walls not only talk they scream! A tragic story, so intense it is locked away for generations.
The story beings with Sarah’s family being confronted by the Nazi having to be transferred to a holding facility within France to await deportation to a concentration camp. In an attempt to hide her brother, she places him in a secret hiding place, thinking she will be able to come back and get him later. Time passes and when she does return to the cupboard, she finds it is too late to save him. The parallel with Julia Jarmond begins when her family begins renovating the same apartment occupied by Sarah before the Nazi invasion and the same location where her brother died. Sarah’s whereabouts become lost mid-way through the book and the focus turns to Julia, who unlocks Sarah’s past and changes her own life.
Subtly addicting, Sarah’s Key, requires the reader to remember the victims of the holocaust and paints a vivid picture of the struggle to survivor after that chapter of life has closed. The question remains, what story do your walls possess and would you want to know even if they wanted to tell you?
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Rick & Bubba's Awesome Guide to Marriage
Marriage books will serve no one any good if both people don’t read them so throw out your other boring marriage books and take a tour of Rick & Bubba’s guide to the Almost Perfect marriage and learn something about relationships!
Rick & Bubba’s guide to the almost perfect marriage is the best pre-marriage book on my shelf! Being a newlywed, I have a great collection of pre-marriage counseling books on what to expect in marriage, what gods place should be in your marriage and all the other advice that everyone wants you to know. However, those books are boring and my Husband dreaded sitting down to go through those books, but with the Rick & Bubba’s guide I was laughing so hard that he actually sat down and wanted to read it. The guide is a true-life account of what happens in marriage from the crazy arguments over driving to wanting gifts on every major holiday not mater what I say! It is a book for people who think they are have great freedom because they are not married or for someone who has a hard time learning how to be in a relationship. It is the best book I have read this year and I not only recommend it to everyone but plan on giving it out to my friends, both married and single!
Danielle Johnson
Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger
Rick & Bubba’s guide to the almost perfect marriage is the best pre-marriage book on my shelf! Being a newlywed, I have a great collection of pre-marriage counseling books on what to expect in marriage, what gods place should be in your marriage and all the other advice that everyone wants you to know. However, those books are boring and my Husband dreaded sitting down to go through those books, but with the Rick & Bubba’s guide I was laughing so hard that he actually sat down and wanted to read it. The guide is a true-life account of what happens in marriage from the crazy arguments over driving to wanting gifts on every major holiday not mater what I say! It is a book for people who think they are have great freedom because they are not married or for someone who has a hard time learning how to be in a relationship. It is the best book I have read this year and I not only recommend it to everyone but plan on giving it out to my friends, both married and single!
Danielle Johnson
Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Between Wyomings:My God and an Ipod on the open road
Between Wyomings: My God and an Ipod on the open road, is a necessary read for anyone struggling with their professional life and Christian life. The tale unfolds as Ken, his wife Connie and their loyal transport Moses the Van, traverse across his memories and the Country. During the journey Ken tells his personal accounts of life in the music biz with major players in the industry including, Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr and many more. His life was full of all the extravagances Hollywood supplied but he was still looking for fulfillment that only comes with being one with Christ. Ken’s star-studded career becomes a nightmare when he found himself out or work, home and money. Between Wyomings, expresses that God has a place for you and it may not be an easy ride but when you listen to Him the rewards are unimaginable!
Ken’s statement that “most of life is spent either climbing or falling off a mountain, while standing on top--if ever achieved--is very fleeting,” is a great interpretation of this book. The first half was hard reading, his writing is described as “a Christian on acid” and I had to encourage myself to keep going, by the middle I found his voice and was rewarded with a wonderful and encouraging story! Between Wyomings, brought me back to my spiritual goals and by reading this book; it encourages me to take a step back into Christ. I encourage anyone who is struggling with climbing the career ladder, while maintaining his or her Christina integrity to read this story.
Danielle Johnson
Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger
http://danielle-whereicomefrom.blogspot.com
Ken’s statement that “most of life is spent either climbing or falling off a mountain, while standing on top--if ever achieved--is very fleeting,” is a great interpretation of this book. The first half was hard reading, his writing is described as “a Christian on acid” and I had to encourage myself to keep going, by the middle I found his voice and was rewarded with a wonderful and encouraging story! Between Wyomings, brought me back to my spiritual goals and by reading this book; it encourages me to take a step back into Christ. I encourage anyone who is struggling with climbing the career ladder, while maintaining his or her Christina integrity to read this story.
Danielle Johnson
Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger
http://danielle-whereicomefrom.blogspot.com
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