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My daughter grew up here in this peaceful setting. When she and her sister were very small, my husband and I built a new home right in the middle of her grandparents pasture. There was a little lane that ambled up from highway 71 to the top of this beautiful knoll. We decided that was where we wanted to live out our lifetime. It took some doing to accomplish that task, but in time we got our home built.The one thing we didn't do that we had planned, was too live our life time there. With our kids and grand kids gone it wasn't the same, so we eventually moved closer to all of them.
You can't see the house because I took the picture from our fenced yard. Yes, we had a chain link fence that kept the kids in, but never kept the cows out.
Our girls have lots of memories of growing up on this one hundred acre playground. They rode four wheelers, motor cycles, bicycles, and what ever else they found with wheels on it. They walked the fields with their friends, planned their futures sitting on the back porch in the swing, and left it all when they married. The one thing that they didn't leave behind was the values that became a part of them.
This country church was where we worshiped
When a missionary came to one of our services, he said there was someone in the audience that had a special calling to work for God. When I heard my young daughter softly crying in the seat behind me,
