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Seconds of Hope

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Meet Sierra Fedorko

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We sure like our Nigel! He's a character 😂 Not as friendly as the girls, but loves to be hand-fed, can be found under his favorite shade tree, will dump out his own hay, loves to be near Hattie and Marge, and will relax like a lazy man who never gets out of a recliner. Nigel is his own show, and I love it!🕺 Swipe right for the most recent photo. He's looking so much older these days, but it suits him. 👏🐐 #NigeltheNigerian #fedorkofarm
This has been the year for finding beautiful things. For being surprised by life. For rejoicing in the desert. For grieving with hope and joy. For celebrating.💛 Spring wildflowers, summer blackberries, fall leaves, winter promise...something irreplacable in every season. I embrace. I anticipate. More walks along this path are in order. #TheCelebratingSoul 🌿💛
R A D I A N T🌿💛 I have waited and prayed for this. Looks nothing like I thought it would. I expected lots of green growth before any kind of bloom. But here we are in the middle of unmet expectations. Small. Beautiful. Radiant. I think this is what my soul looks like when joy and grief crash into one another and then learn to coexist. There is an abundance of good gifts and a deep measure of pain. I can greet both at the same time. It doesn't have to be one or the other. I can praise God and feel broken. I can laugh hard while sitting with sorrow. I can celebrate life and what it means to live and embrace loss and what it means to lose. God gives us courage and comfort to be like this marigold...to meet joy & grief head on. To bask in the sunlight and shadows of unmet expectations and say, "This is hard, but this is beautiful too." #TheCelebratingSoul
I saw this tiny marigold bloom and thought, "the beginning of something beautiful." But I was wrong. I'm always wrong. These marigolds are in the MIDDLE of something beautiful. There was beauty in the roots and beauty in the blooms. There was beauty when they died and beauty when they held tight to life. There was beauty in the fullness and beauty in the spindly, determined stems. There was beauty in a dozen, and beauty now in a tiny, brave marigold basking in the sun. This marigold bush has always been in the midst of beauty...different kinds, all sorts. Never asking to be seen, but living the middle again, again, again. • • I'm in the middle too. And here is beautiful, changing life again, again, again. #TheCelebratingSoul 🌿💛

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