Treva Ropp update and more prayer requests
Before I give the update on Treva, please keep in prayer the Aspiring Agrarian’s father, Jon Caudle Sr., as he recovers from brain surgery, where he had a mass removed from around his pituitary gland. He is doing well, but will have an uphill battle with fatigue in getting back on his feet. He will be hard to keep out if his pulpit, so pray he have the grace and patience to make a full recovery first.
Treva is recovering well, though she has needed some skin graft surgery, as some of her burns were too severe for the salve, though it continues to alleviate pain and speed up healing. The doctors are now talking about 2 weeks before she can go home. As for Philip, with him staying at the hospital and sleeping on a couch in the hall, he managed to pick up a staff infection for which he was promptly sent home after receiving a major dose of antibiotics. Hospitals can be a very dangerous place to be. I am glad to report, however, that he is rapidly recovering at home and has gained back most of his strength . . . enough to head today to Paris, Tennessee, for what he calls a genuine hillbilly mule auction, the best draft mule auction in the nation. Jeff and I will be joining him there to get a real education in mules, as there will be over five hundred there. If all works out well, we will also be looking into some Mammoth Jack stock with Philip before heading back. Please keep the Ropps and us in prayer.
Being of strong Scottish ancestry, when Philip mentioned a “hillbilly auction” I had to give him the history behind the term hillbilly. The term refers to the Scots-Irish -- Scots who lived in the Ulster, Ireland (brought into the Ulster area in the late 1600’s because of their remarkable fighting abilities so as to fend off attempts by Catholic kings to take Ulster) and eventually settled in Appalachia and the Ozarks -- like my ancestors who moved to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in the late 1790’s. These Scots brought with them their music, which celebrated their history and faith, which included ballads depicting the defeat of the Catholic king James II by William, Prince of Orange, at the battle of Boyne, Ireland in 1690. The faithful men of Prince William were known as “Orangemen” or “Billy Boys” and in America they were known as “hillbillies,” particularly in the wooded hills and mountains of the Appalachian region. Since then it has become a derogatory term, partly due the horrific apostasy that has occurred among them since the War of Northern Aggression, which has turned many of them into ignorant heathen. Even so, there are many today whom the Lord is saving and restoring to the strong reformed faith of their Scottish fathers who also have within them the same godly desire to stand for the truth . . . aye thar laddie! --- The Missouri Rev
Treva is recovering well, though she has needed some skin graft surgery, as some of her burns were too severe for the salve, though it continues to alleviate pain and speed up healing. The doctors are now talking about 2 weeks before she can go home. As for Philip, with him staying at the hospital and sleeping on a couch in the hall, he managed to pick up a staff infection for which he was promptly sent home after receiving a major dose of antibiotics. Hospitals can be a very dangerous place to be. I am glad to report, however, that he is rapidly recovering at home and has gained back most of his strength . . . enough to head today to Paris, Tennessee, for what he calls a genuine hillbilly mule auction, the best draft mule auction in the nation. Jeff and I will be joining him there to get a real education in mules, as there will be over five hundred there. If all works out well, we will also be looking into some Mammoth Jack stock with Philip before heading back. Please keep the Ropps and us in prayer.
Being of strong Scottish ancestry, when Philip mentioned a “hillbilly auction” I had to give him the history behind the term hillbilly. The term refers to the Scots-Irish -- Scots who lived in the Ulster, Ireland (brought into the Ulster area in the late 1600’s because of their remarkable fighting abilities so as to fend off attempts by Catholic kings to take Ulster) and eventually settled in Appalachia and the Ozarks -- like my ancestors who moved to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in the late 1790’s. These Scots brought with them their music, which celebrated their history and faith, which included ballads depicting the defeat of the Catholic king James II by William, Prince of Orange, at the battle of Boyne, Ireland in 1690. The faithful men of Prince William were known as “Orangemen” or “Billy Boys” and in America they were known as “hillbillies,” particularly in the wooded hills and mountains of the Appalachian region. Since then it has become a derogatory term, partly due the horrific apostasy that has occurred among them since the War of Northern Aggression, which has turned many of them into ignorant heathen. Even so, there are many today whom the Lord is saving and restoring to the strong reformed faith of their Scottish fathers who also have within them the same godly desire to stand for the truth . . . aye thar laddie! --- The Missouri Rev
posted by Missouri Rev | 12:11 PM
2 Comments:
Have fun at the mule sale. The Kelso's are friends of ours, and they're great people.
Are you going to the Boone Co MO sale? We were just discussing it today and I think we're going to try to go.
BTW - did you see Dirty Jobs this week? They were logging with mules. Thought of you when I saw it.
Scotti an Ulster Gaelic tribe settled in Dalriada around the fith century.Scots are Irish. Their ancestry is the same. The difference being that the Saxons imprinted a different identity on to them before sending them back home in the sixteenth century to do their dirty work in a brother war that still rumbles on to this day.
Really ;liked the Tolkien analogy.
Return Christ our King.
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