What do you want when your cattle farm feels like it is terminally ill?<\/p>\n
Hope. Hope that you will find a way to make things work again.<\/p>\n
Where is a sense of hope when you feel like your farm is dying?<\/p>\n
As a believer, my hope is in God, that He will make a way.\u00a0 As an encourager, I ask you to ponder and consider how to process and live\u00a0 with depressed livestock market prices.. As a farmer, I\u2019ve learned to separate out the things I have control over, and the things I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Glean from the people with terminal illness, and see if some of their wisdom can transfer to the farm that feels like it is terminally ill:<\/p>\n
\u201cBe aware that bad news is always bad news, even if it is given in a respectful, compassionate manner. No one wants to hear that they themselves or a loved one is dying.\u201dsays Dr. David Kuhl, author of What the Dying Want (<\/em>Doubleday,2002)<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Kuhl uses the stories of terminally ill patients. His chapter headings can be touch points for farm families who don\u2019t want to see themselves as victims, but look for opportunities to cope with the current crush of anxiety:<\/p>\n What do you want when your cattle farm feels like it is terminally ill? Hope. Hope that you will find a way to make things work again. Where is a sense of hope when you feel like your farm is dying? As a believer, my hope is in God, that He will make a way.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[357,74,76,118,26],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cattle-farm","tag-farm-families","tag-farmers","tag-farming","tag-farming-family"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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