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Olive harvesting is just about done here in our area, and I always enjoy watching it. So I thought I’d let you experience one for yourself through the following video.
I think you enjoy the video, because olive harvesting and grape picking — well they’re the heart and essence of an Italian autumn! Both events are well worth experiencing! Enjoy!
Photo credit: Olive grove by StockSnap via Pixabay.
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What a blessing you folks are being!
We sure hope so. Please do pray that we will be a real blessing in this situation. There are so many needs out there – especially with all the hardship this pandemic has brought. We obviously can’t meet all the needs, but we’ll try to do what we can!
Father GOD, thank You for this privilege and service You have given to Sheila and her family. Thank You for the provisions You have arranged and will yet provide. Thank You for the watch care You have over them and the watch care You have given them to provide. I pray for a safe and beautiful delivery of this Baby. I pray You will be glorified and much good for Your Kingdom will result. Please provide practical helps of every kind needed for Sheila and this young mother; as well as sweet refreshment of Spirit and soul for all in this ministry. Thank You, Abba, in JESUS name.
Thanks so much, Kathie, for that lovely prayers. That is what we are our friend will most need during this time. And please pray for me – it’s been a long time since I cared for a newborn. I hope I can teach her well, and am so glad for that the younger women in the church will be helping in this!! We’re getting excited about the baby’s arrival though!! What a gift!
Interesting that some olives are so easily removed (as shown at the end of the video) and sturdy enough to be dropped to the ground into nets. Must make harvesting a much quicker job! / God bless you and your husband as you minister to this young woman. It’s going to be even more interesting than olive harvesting to see how God uses you during the next few months. (I’ll be praying, Sheila!)
Yes indeed, Nancy. Both olive and grape harvests are so interesting. We love watching them. But keep in mind that this is the old-fashioned way to harvest. Nowadays, especially if they lots of trees, they use machines. Nets are always spread on the ground, but a shaking machine is attached to the tree trunk and the olives shaken from the tree. Some farmers have hundreds of trees – so you can really see how valuable such a machine is to them! And thank you so much for your prayers for us during this coming time, and especially for our young friend as she faces this unsure, frightening time. We are blessed to be able to be there for her! Thanks Nancy.
For you and your hubby to help this young woman is a tremendous act of boldness and compassion. And what a picture of the love of Jesus for those who seem invisible. Definitely a Philippians 2:1-4 response! And I loved the video! There’s something calming about watching that young man pick olives.
Thanks for your encouragement, Dayle. Our friend was so happy and relieved that she started crying when we told her. It all must be so scary for her. And we do have good news regarding the situation. She and the young man are planning to marry as soon as they can get their documents sorted out. It’s a bit complicated as she is Nigerian and he is from Sierra Leone. But I think it will be good for them and such a joy to witness the wedding!! Please do keep them in prayer. This lockdown time is especially hard on the immigrants.
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