Incommunicado

On the farm… no phone, no internet, no cell phone coverage, no cable TV. Sweet! Today is the 4th and we are headed over to some friends who live on Lake Cowdry for a July 4th cookout and fireworks. Not much of an agenda for today. I got up and read the lesson in my Life Journal. I finished reading “Deepening Your Effectiveness” and started reading a new book call “Amazing Grace” by Eric Metaxas.

It is about William Wilberforce and his work to abolish the slave trade. Metaxas says that, “the idea of ending slavery was so completely out of the question at the time that… they focused on the lesser idea of ending slavery… but never dared speak of emancipation.” So complete was Wilberforce’s work that it seems so odd to for us think about the notion of selling human lives. It is a repugnant idea. So complete was his work that we have forgotten those that ended this horrible business in western culture. Wilberforce is one of those forgotten heroes. The slave trade was ended in 1807 in Britain, so this year is the 200th anniversary of that remarkable achievement.
Here is a picture of Bev and our Sister-in-Law, Debra Gilmore.

4th of July FIREWORKS at Lake Ida. They are covered up not because it is cold, but because of the mosquitoes!