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Friends! It’s easy to lose track of time when you’ve been tucked inside for twenty-four hours. If you live anywhere near Chicagoland, you know: winter arrived with her full voice this weekend — the kind of mix that hushes everything, cancels plans, and reminds us that creation still has the final say over our schedules.
Here on the farm, the world has narrowed to white and to only the most necessary chores. Farmer Jones has been ploughing drifts since dawn, carving lifelines through fields that disappeared overnight. Inside, it’s a full house — everyone home, guests with delayed departures, laundry cycling, books open, movies playing, and the dishwasher running overtime to keep up with all the meals and snacks needed to feed the crowd.
With the pace softened — and December officially here — I find myself thinking about what still remains. There’s still so much to savor.
Christmas on the Farm is just two weeks away, and then, on December 9, the long-awaited Comfort in the Wild releases, featuring our little farm among 99 destinations across the world.
As I reflect on the year and the final milestones ahead, I can clearly see God’s guidance in every step: do this, wait here, go ahead… That inaudible voice has been familiar since I first trusted Him in 1997 — a comfort I return to again and again.
There is such peace in knowing His voice. I think of my own children — how, in a noisy crowd, they still know mine. I can call out anything at all, and they turn because they recognize the one who has been with them day after day. That kind of familiarity changes everything.
This year — like the ten before it — has carried that same truth. We may make missteps, but we are never off course when we know the One leading us. The ultimate regenerative Farmer — steward of our dreams, collector of our tears, comforter of our fears — is always tilling the soil of our lives, planting what needs planting, bringing fruit in His perfect time.
So as the snow settles and the noise quiets, I can see His fingerprints on every provision — the ones behind us, the ones here now, and the ones still ahead. We have trusted God; let us trust Him still... Never suspicious of His goodness or tone!
The rest of this letter shares what’s to come — and the guiding Hand that continues to steady this farm in Provision, Confidence, Courage, and Community.
Until Next Time,
Mrs. Farmer Jones
John 10:27
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
Isaiah 30:21
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.”
P.S.: Per last week's note: We put up the tree. See!
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