LIFE ON THE FARM
Today's reading:  Psalm 60-62

"...Lead me to the towering rock of safety, for you are my safe refuge, a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me.  Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings!"  Psalm 61:2-34 NLT

There's a living, breathing salvation object lesson being played out here on the Edgell Acres farm.

Little Lady, our brooding mother hen, is carefully, protectively and lovingly taking care of 8 little ones placed in her care.

She will rise up against the biggest enemy.

She squawks and fluffs if you approach her babies.

She quietly but demandingly clucks at them and they run to her side--or underneath her if that's what she wants them to do.

Thing is, the little ones aren't even hers.

She's raising guinea keats.  Guineas lay fertile eggs.  Guineas will sit on their nests.  Guineas have no parenting skills.  Guineas leave their young to fend for themselves.

Little Lady doesn't mind.   

That's where I'm reminded of God's love for me.

Satan thought he had me.  He's successfully raised me to believe a whole pack of lies he's been feeding me since childhood.  He's led me down paths that I never should have placed foot on.  He's called me his, then left me out in the cold on far too many occasions.

Then God stepped in.

He's adopted me.  He's falled in love with me.  He's cared for me.  He's walked beside me, corrected me, rewarded me, protected me and saved me from satan.

Satan has no parenting skills.  God was needed in my life if I were to fulfill the purpose He paced me here for.

I'm safely sheltered under His wings!