RFD TV Cattlemen to Cattlemen: PNW Young Cattlemen's Conference

We are so LuCKy to have a 5 minute feature appear on this week's RFD TV Cattlemen to Cattlemen show!! Thanks C2C for such an amazing segment on our tour and on our PNW Cattle Industry! :)

FaiTH *GooD* friDaY ~Windows of the Soul~

Good Friday brings self-reflection...what did I do to deserve Christ to suffer and die on the cross? The truth-I did absolutely nothing to deserve that nor will any deed or act I ever attempt will deserve the grace I received when Jesus suffered for me all those years ago and then went on days later to rest in His Father's Kingdom. Good Friday is not a day to grieve in my mind, but it is a day to take some time to solemnly reflect what we've been given then celebrate in joy the life God has given us. Today, look through that window and truly take a deep look at who God is and what he has done and continues to do. When I take a hard look for God I see him everywhere and can see Him working for the good in everything that surrounds me.
(Below is taken from various parts of Ken Gire's book, 'Windows of the Soul')

... We reach for God in many ways. Through our sculptures and our scriptures. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches for us.


His search begins with something said. Ours begins with something heard. His begins with something shown. Ours, with something seen. Our search for God and His search for us meet at windows in our everyday experience.

These are the windows of the soul.

… But we must learn to look with more than just our eyes and listen with more than just our ears, for the sounds are sometimes faint and the sights sometimes far away. We must be aware, at all times and in all places, because windows are everywhere, and at any time we may find one.

Or one may find us. Though we will hardly know it…unless we are search for Him who for so long has been searching for us.

When we look long enough at a scene from a movie, a page from a book, a person from across the room, and when we look deeply enough, those moments framed in our minds grow transparent. Everywhere we look, there are pictures that are not really pictures but windows. If only we have eyes to see beyond the paint. If we look closely, we can see something beyond the two dimensions within the frame, something beyond the ordinary colors brushed across the canvas of our everyday lives.

… To respect something is to understand that there is something there to see, that it is not all surface, that something lies beneath the surface, something that has the power to change the way we think or feel, something that may prove so profound a revelation as to change not only how we look at our lives but how we live them.

Jesus live His life that way, seeing beyond the pictures of the widow at Nain and the woman at the well, of the tax collector in the tree and the thief on the cross, of the rich man and Lazarus.

He was constantly looking beyond the two dimensions of the full-sized portraits framed before him. Beyond the widow’s tears for her dead son, Jesus saw how much she needed that son to fill the hole left by her deceased husband. Beyond the Samaritan woman’s veil, He saw the five marriages that had failed, and beyond that, the emptiness in her life that grew bigger with each divorce. Beyond the power and wealth of Zacchaeus, He saw a small man with a big hole in his heart that all the power and wealth in the world couldn’t fill. Beyond the sores of Lazarus, He saw a soul of eternal worth. Beyond the clothes of the rich man, He saw a soul in rags.

Seeing windows of the souls was the way Jesus lived His life and the way he taught His disciples to live theirs ....

~Blessed Easter Weekend~

(1st Image from American Cowboy)