Country Life!

I found some of these pictures off of pinterest that describe my country life! I love them! so read and enjoy and agree with me! ♥

 I Definitly have this problem

 I think I shall make this ^ into little busnises cards for my brothers to hand out!

(lol just kidding)

I totally LOVE this picture! ♥

 yep yep! thats gonna be my little boys! all geared up for a rodeo! ♥

 *sigh* - someday.....

note the little warning at the bottom! its still true for in the winter!
 because that would be called COON HUNTING!!! oh yeah!

Nebraska Morning

I LOVE IT!

have you ever watched the sun slowly come up?

my view of the rising sun is this corn field!

and im in love with it!

this morning as I pulled on my running shoes I was enthralled once again with the beauty of my sun! (I know its not mine! but for some reason as I watch it come up over the corn and greet me with its beauty, I like to think that God lets it be so pretty just for me!)

And so... I run! and this morning as I ran,

I got so excited about what God has done for me!

its amazing

It makes me smile

I closed my eyes (yes while I was still running) and

 I began to soak up the smell of the morning!

I could never describe the scent of a pivot

sprinkling the corn as the sun peaks up.

I could never articulate the wonder of it all!

but its pretty cool!

 Honour and majesty are before him:

strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Psalm 96:6

♥ I Love Cows ♥

Have I ever told you that I really love cows?

♥♥♥

CoFfEe!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to do a fun little post on coffee ;) (imagine that! lol)

"Instant human - just add coffee"

"Sleep is a symptom of coffee deprivation

"Latte is italian for "you paid to much""

"Caffeine isnt a drug, its a vitamin!"

Spell Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased tow no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew

?Questions?

What if you woke up today

with only the things you

thanked God for yesterday?

Did you grow closer to the Lord today or did you fall further away from Him?

Have You made a difference in somebodys life today?

Just some random questions that iv been asking myself....convicted? -... a clue...- YES.

And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him wich died for them, and rose again. 2Corinthians 5:15

Made me LOL

(Brandon, Skylar, and I were sitting around the table trying to decide what we wanted to make for supper)

Koda - "Lets make pancakes, and bacon! bacon sounds sooooo good!!!!!"

Skylar - "naaa... I dont want bacon"

Koda - "WHY!!!????"

Skylar - "I already have a bacon taste in my mouth.......... It came from the cookie dough"

I

Love

My

Little

Bro.

♥

Ministry

I thought about the subject a lot while I was stick the past 2 weeks. Its been the core of how Jesus has been working in my heart recently. Today in my Bible reading I came across a verse.

"But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,

do the work of an evangelist,

make full proof of thy ministry."

2Timothy 4:5

Questions started echoing in my mind.

~Whats my ministry?

~ Where is my ministry?

To whom am I ministering?

Where should I be?

God do you want me to go on a missions trip?

as I sat and pondered some things- I started to recall a conversation that I had with my dad quite awhile ago. The words of a book I recently read drifted into my thoughts. Parts of a verse formed in my mind. All answeres to my own questions.

my Daddy has so much insight and wisdome! a few months ago, I was sitting in the dinning room talking with my dad about this very subject. (more correctly my dad was guiding me and giving me counsel!) but I still recall the message of his words. His wisdome brought me to realize

ministry is right here!

I want to go on a missions trip, I want to go be apart of a ranch in OR. that ministers to hurting kids... nothing wrong with that... maybe someday I will get the chance to! but my dad pointed out to me - that there are hurting kids right here in small town NE! sure im in the cornfeilds... but Ministering is having a personal relationship with the individual! even though its all great... but I really dont have to go across the world/country to reach out to kids and people. the fact is they are right here- I know them, I know that they are hurting, struggling. and I know that they need Jesus.

the answer to my question about "what IS my ministry?" -

my ministry is Luke 4:18.

my ministry is to stand up and fight for the cause of Christ

my ministry is to bring hope to those that have none

to encourage those that are falling

to share the gosple

to light MY world

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hat anointed me to

preach the gospel to the poor

he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted,

to preach deliverance to teh captives,

and recovering of sight to the blind,

to set at liberty them that are bruised,

YOU can make a difference for Christ exactly where God has put you. weather your in small town USA, the middle of a bean patch, or some big city -doesnt matter. God has you where he has you for a reason. Im so thankful for the place where I am,

Im so thankful for how God is changing me

I want to BE more, I want to DO more. how could we possible say.... "iv done enough for God" we cant.

I WANT TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God

I will strengthen Thee; yea

I will help thee; yea

I will uphold thee with the right hand of my rightesouness.

ridiculous, random, and.... radical? IDK

ok so failed attempt at a great title with bunches of words starting with "R" :/ I dont really have my dads gift for coming up with big intellegent sounding words all starting with the same letter! but no matter, just because I cant ever think of intellegent words doesnt mean that im not intellegent right??? ...okey moving on!

Well I could not come up anything "INCREDIBLE" to post. so this might be a little weird... oh well.

welcome to the random life of KODA

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  Gideon (our new horse) is absoutly wonderful! Brandon is doing a fantastic job training him. with in 5 days of having him I jumped on and rode him. He is doing very well with ground work accepting the saddle, and tarps, and he absoutly adores people!

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  also a friend mentioned that I should tell yall about how the gal is doing, that got hurt in the rodeo. She is ok, I know she was able to go home that night. so praise the Lord!
  


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  The Lord has shown me, that his protection is never ending! when something "should have" been so fatal God is so good! I cant even express my thankfullness for Gods protecting hand!
  


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  I have also been dwelling on the verse "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed" (2 Corinthians 4:8-9) my thoughts are constantly returning to those comforting words! how thankful I am that the Lord put them in the bible for me! and I am incredibly thankful for the Hope that we have in Jesus Christ! PTL
  


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  so for now thats all I have! Im leaving for colorado to enjoy a week full of intense photography learning, and picture taking!!! also... supper dupper excited to meet Jess!!!

L-5 Youth Ranch

hey everybody! sorry for my disappearance from blog land here! i just got way to overwhelmed and buried in life to get on, and some setting was messed up on our internet that wasnt letting me post. so... here i am finally! anyway not much (and yet at the same time.... TONS of things) have been going on! its crazy. but even though it was a couple weeks ago i still wanted to do this blog post. it was such an amazing week! and i love looking back through all the pictures, pulling out the memories, and recalling how Awesome God is.

a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to help at a ranch for the week. many of you probably know about it. but I'll lightly recap, and then let you experience it through some pictures! the week i was there, they were having day camps for kids. it was absolutely incredible how the Holy Spirit moved, worked and directed the whole week! from the activities each day, to the partnerships, conversations, and relationships between the volunteers and the kids. Praise the Lord for his faithfulness!!

so no enjoy some pictures!! i have a big album made that you can check out when you click this >> (}-~-{) << (yeah the snaffle bit - click it and it will take you to the pictures!!) and heres a couple for the bottom of the post! enjoy! (btw i think you can leave comments on the pictures in the album so please do so!!)

What iv been up to!!??

hiya friends! long time no..hear from? talk to? lol yeah anyway i really enjoyed my little break from the distracting internet world!! well iv been up to a lot. like almost way to much to recount! lol. probably mostly finishing up school, working at the stables, and playing in the snow! i'll just upload a bunch of pictures! enjoy from there!! love yall!

ridin our ponys as much as we can! this was one Jan 1st at a game day!

cleaning stalls! (this is one of the alley ways!)

this is miss "sweet melody" (i asume her owner has a different name for her...but thats what I named her!) anyway i love her a LOT, and she loves me! everytime i walk into the barn she nickers for me! (when only a couple weeks ago she was scared to let me even touch her...she has a long, not so great history)

!!!SNOW!!!

dixie is sooo hilarious in the snow!! lol

pushin snow!!!

yep thats me!!!

well i have tons more picts and so on. but this should be a pretty good starter?! take care!