Family Farms

When I pulled this article from the Drudge Report, I knew it was going to be sad.  Indeed, it is a sad day for America when the small family farms continue to be sold at an alarming rate.  A source of family traditions and rural wisdom that is rapidly disappearing.  It won't be long until the "old ways" are only remembered by a few...and that is when we just might need them.

Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

My God,
...Thy bounteous goodness has helped me believe,
   but my faith is weak and wavering,
   its light dim,
   its steps tottering,
   its increase slow,
   its backslidings frequent;
It should scale the heavens but lies grovelling in the dust.
...Lord, awake faith to put forth its strength
   until all heaven fills my soul
   and all impurity is cast out.
--an excerpt from, Faith, in The Valley of Visions