So Alex and I just got back from an exciting pheasant hunting trip in Hanston, Kansas.
A pheasant is a type of bird.
A pheasant is a type of bird.
I didn't know that.
Did you know that pheasants live in the ground? They dig holes in the dirt somehow and bury themselves in these holes.
The hunting dogs (which cost $10,000 each!) sniff the birds out and the hunters shoot them as the fly up to attempt to escape. They are beautiful dogs.
I will admit, I had no interest whatsoever in going on this hunting trip. I told my husband that driving 10 hours to go hunt was to me like asking him to drive 10 hours to go shoe shopping. I didn’t want to go. But being that it was a business trip in which he insisted that I had to go I gave in, and made the best of it.
I didn’t whine when there wasn’t a town within 50 miles. I didn’t whine when I didn’t have cell phone service for 3 days. I didn’t whine when we had to share a cabin with 6 other adults in a 3 bedroom 2 bath, approximately 1000 sq. foot house. And I didn’t whine when he wanted me to get up at 6am in 20 degree weather to out into the field to hunt with him and the group. Talk about some serious time in prayer. You just can’t image. Or maybe by this point you can.
As I was making the best of it I decided to bring out my camera and start shooting some pictures. I realized as I was going that this wasn’t so bad after all. I was never bored.
As I was making the best of it I decided to bring out my camera and start shooting some pictures. I realized as I was going that this wasn’t so bad after all. I was never bored.
I talked a lot with the 3 other women. And each one of them, all separately, asked me something about my faith. Some questions were deep, like about sin, and whether divorce was forgivable. Other questions were more simple, like questions on baptism. I didn’t mention beforehand what church I went to, or that I attended church, or even that I was a Christian. It is such a relief to know that as much of a failure I feel like sometimes in my walk with Christ, He is helping me do something right.
I was so thankful that God allowed me the opportunity to share His word with these wonderful women.
He had to take me 10 hours away into the middle of nowhere to do it.
Where my cell phone wouldn’t ring,
where there was no shopping trip we women could plan,
and we were squeezed in a house so small that we couldn’t turn around without seeing each other.
And the pheasant didn't taste so bad either ;)
