Process is Progress

It's good to raise cattle and chickens

11/16/2011 - 4th Day - Mid-Afternoon. – Greetings y’all.  One of the things you have to constantly keep in mind is that it is a PROCESS driven life.  Sometimes our progress seems very, very anemic, but it is the work that is its own reward.  We watched a documentary on the Shakers last night.  That was a seriously whacked out cult - and I don't mean to offend any of the three Shakers that are left in the world - but they were seriously heretical in many areas.  But one thing that they did do right was that they properly focused the mind on the importance of work... not on being FINISHED with work, but on the value of the work itself.  Hands to Work and Heart to God was a good slogan, if only they could have been conversant with God's true Word and not the visions and prophecies of silly women.  Which goes to show you, where ever you have a group or community whose canon is something other than the Bible, and who elevate women to positions of authority, and who emphasize personal experience over God's Word, then you have a recipe for spiritual disaster.  But the Shakers did make good furniture, and they very seriously kept their minds on their work, and on making their work perfect.  It wasn't about finishing.  It wasn't about accomplishing.  It was about working for God every minute of the day.


Here at the ranch, the Mass Rocket Heater is coming together well.  You can see the progress on the Cobb Bench...

Here is some Winter Rye grass we planted in one of the new raised beds as a cover crop and green manure... 

Our winter greens bed is doing great...

Well, this week I finally started sleeping in the new cottage in the Master Bedroom.  For the first time in over 6 years we actually have a bedroom and a real bed...

How is your Process coming along?


Your servant in Christ Jesus,


Michael Bunker