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It’s in my DNA. I can’t escape it, although Daddy never had tractors this fancy. 😂 I love delivering lunches and watching the logistics in action. Thank God for bringing me hope that brought me home. ❤️ Read our love story and how we met in “Hope All The Way.” (Available anywhere books are sold.)#theoboyd #thinktheo #cornharvest #farmlife #hope
The corn harvest is still going strong. 🌽 My boyfriend has been on the combine from dawn to dusk, and the highlight of the day is lunch! 🥪 #theoboyd #thinktheo #cornharvest #farmlife ho
How can I possibly move forward after this?
How do I keep going?
How will life ever be worth living again?
These are just a few of the questions I asked myself early in my grief. As time went by, day by day, hour by hour, I continued to ask myself the questions. But eventually, the answers began to come.
In “Hope All The Way,” I continue the story of what I experienced in the early days of grief and as I started to feel hope.
I decided to take the events that had happened in my life and push forward. I leapt out in faith. I guess you could say I didn’t really have a choice.
What did I have to lose?
The God that I had been so angry at and the God that I had doubted began to show me the way. As little signs, and big ones, showed up in my life - I realized that God had been there the entire time, waiting for me. I gave up on my faith and God, but He never gave up on me. Hope is funny like that - it’s always there, waiting for us.
So, I have this newfound strength inside of me. It’s like a superpower that I am slowly learning about. I’m learning how to manage it. I’m learning how to share it. I just needed to open my eyes to it and see that God was with me. He had been there the entire time and He is still - as I move forward with hope.
“I once was lost, but now I’m found. Was blind, but now I see.” - John Newton, Amazing Grace
#theoboyd #lifeafterloss #grief #hope #learningtolive
🍂 It doesn’t have to be fall to have a pumpkin pie. 🍁 #breaktherules #theoboyd #thinktheo #farmlife #hopealltheway
Well, back to prepping and cooking meals for the farmers. Corn has dried and it’s ready! 🌽 I learned how to check the ears today. Q: Why can’t you tell secrets in a corn field? A: There are too many ears. 😂
#thinktheo #theoboyd #cornharvest #hopealltheway #farmlife
It’s hard to think of hope when all feels hopeless.
While honoring our feelings is important, we often sink into them. We settle down into the darkness, thinking that all hope is lost. We get comfortable with the pain.
That’s okay. It allows us to know where we are. It’s okay to stay because eventually…
Hope finds its way to you.
I can remember actually trying to adjust to my ‘new normal’ as they like to call it, and saying to myself, “This is all I will ever be. Happiness is in the past and the future is nothing to look forward to, but to dread.”
Until one day, I looked up and saw a butterfly, then another, and then I saw the sun and heard a bird sing. The next day, I smelled cookies baking in the oven, and I saw Momma cooking up a storm in the kitchen. The next day, I saw cattle in a field, and I could see Daddy feeding them big, round, yellow bales of hay.
Don’t run away. Don’t run from any feeling you have. Stay with it. Allow it. And then you will see hope. It’s there. It’s just waiting for you to see it. #hope #thinktheo #theoboyd #love #hopealltheway
Yep, I have started making Manly’s dogfood from scratch. 😩 I know it will get easier, but it’s definitely a learning curve and test of patience. 🙏 🐶 All for love. 🥰
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