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by E.B. Harris
he came to Caesarea.”
It’s an eventful account of just what can happen by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The blessings come when we trust the Holy Spirit for His leading and step out in faith. I don’t think we will have the same experience Philip had, but we can surely affect the lives the Lord allows us to meet with His influence.
Our Heavenly Father cares about a spiritually hungry guy who happens to have a horse or two pulling his chariot. How many untold numbers of spiritually hungry folks are out there who own livestock of all sorts?
Jesus said the fields are ripe for harvest, as we find in Matthew 9:3738. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few, therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
It may be an opportunity to pray with someone who has a hurting loved one, or it could be a chance to pay for a veteran’s meal just to thank them for their service, or handing a homeless person a few dollars along with giving each one a Gospel of John. We should always be ready to speak of the hope we have in Jesus to friends and strangers when the Lord gives us the opportunity.
So, what do we do? The answer is to take the opportunities that God gives us. It’s not about planning to be at the right place at the right time and in the right manner. Ask the Lord to open the doors that you are supposed to walk through. I do believe we please Him by loving Him and being obedient to where He leads us.
Stepping out in faith to pray for a stranger can be a scary deal, but you’ll never know whose heart you may encourage by doing so. Just share the Gospel with a hurting world and then trust Him for the outcome. Well, that’s what Cowboys for Christ and being a believer is all about.
E.B.'s ViEw
from thE Cow PasturE
By E.B. HARRIS
Part of the Past That Appeared
I wrote a couple of months back that we were over at the Davis Place working cattle. This is a farm we have been running cattle on for several years. This is a farm owned by the Davis family, which is an original Warren County family name. Around 1990, Landon Davis sold me his cows, rented me the farm, and sold me what equipment he had when he got ready to retire. We have been running cows on the farm ever since. drain well. Shane and I talked about how we were going to put the feed bunks in the area. It was going to take a little dirt moving. When you are getting around areas like that, you always turn up some artifacts. He found a few plow points, a piece of railroad track that I gather came off the Green Leaf Johnson railroad track that ran through there (this was a logging railroad right after the Civil War), and other odds and ends and metal that was put in the recycle bin.
Shane and Larry came in the other afternoon from working at the Davis Farm, and in the back of the service truck was a buggy hanes. A lot of you know what a buggy hanes is, but for the ones that don’t know, the regular work hanes are used every day for pulling a plow, drag, or wagon with a mule or horse.
The buggy hane, that’s what I call “Sunday Go To Meeting.” I looked at the half hanes and wondered when it went to church, wedding parties, fishing at the creek, to town, to the doctor, went visiting, or even courting. This was an uptown hanes. When you were going to a special occasion and got the buggy out, this hanes went on the horse that was going to pull the buggy. I do not know what it goes to, and it could have been used in the 1700s or the 1800s, or even the early 1900s.
You can stand there in awe and look and only wonder, if only it could talk, what stories it could tell.
“If you have cattle, pastureland, or raise hay like I do, you need to call Donna Byrum. In 10 minutes on the hood of my pickup, she signed me up for a program that I had no idea about.
The next time she came by the farm, she brought me a check! ~ E.B. Harris
There was a 1700s house on it. Time had taken its toll on it. The Davis family had previously sold the house, and the person who bought the house was supposed to move it but has never moved it. We took the excavator over and finished taking it down and dug a hole, and buried what needed to be buried like rock and brick.
This house was on the highest spot of the farm, and being the highest spot of the farm made an ideal place to put down feed bunks where the area would
