Guest Blog

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
—Nelson Mandela

We have one of the coolest dairy stories out there.

Seventeen years ago, I was introduced to a tiny Holstein spring calf that taught me more about life than any person I’d ever met. She wasn’t even my own calf. She belonged to my sister, who had just turned 8 and joined 4-H.

My husband and I were out fixing fence recently. I watched as he methodically fixed strands of high-tensile wire that had been loosened by the winter wind or a deer passing through. The particular hillside we were on is quite memorable.

Growing up, I had multiple pen pals. There was my cousin in Quebec, the daughter of family friends, a goat farmer and various exchange partners. Nothing could beat the thrill of a personal letter arriving in the mail.

Finding myself without a job the summer after my freshman year in college, I asked to be put back into the milking schedule at my parents’ dairy farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

As we make our journey through our blessed lives, we all experience various seasons of life. No matter what season of life you are in, we all experience challenges mixed with great joy.