Happy Easter from Embrace Farm

We want to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very Happy Easter. This is personally one of my favorite holidays. Our culture focuses less on Easter than on Christmas. It's less publicized and not as many people celebrate it. It's full of complication and is brought forth from much conflict. I've been studying a great deal on the time leading up to Easter. Plotting by the skewed beliefs of the religious leaders of that day and the recruitting of the political powers to execute Jesus, seems all too familiar today with what we see going on in our own world.

Easter is the holiday where Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It is the power that the Christian faith is built upon. I say "power" because there is no greater power than to defeat the physical death that we will all encounter. This is a grim truth that we are familiar with but neglect to embrace. I lost my father in 2021 and that made this truth a little more real to me. A funny thing happened as I mourned his passing. I wanted to make sure that my life made an impact. Not to say that it didn't before or hadn't in the past, but something new stirred in me. One of the profound statements that my father shared with me was during his latter years. He said "It's not just that I can't do the things that I used to do, it's that I can't do anything for anybody else". He was 90 when he said that.

Hidden within that statement was a truth that I am still trying to fully understand. His statement revealed that he wanted to be able to serve. Thinking through things, I discovered that this is what what stirring in me. I wanted to expand my ability to serve. In farming I see the opportunity to serve creatures and people. There is a joy that comes from serving others that can not be obtained by serving myself. I believe that is by design. It's something deep inside us and our culture muscles against it relentlessly. Maybe the desire to farm reveals a bit of my rebellious attitude too...

As I further reflect on the Easter holiday, it leads me to this being Maundy Thursday. The Thursday before Easter where some Christians acknowledge Jesus' servanthood by washing His disciples feet. How's that for counter cultural? It'd be similar to an employer washing the feet of their employees and count it an honor to do so. That is the posture of our hearts at Embrace Farm towards God, His creation, and our members. We count it a privilege to honor God by caring for the chickens and turkeys. To move them to different paddocks where they find fresh regenerated pasture as they would do if left to their own and honoring them by giving them organic feed. This provides us the joy of being able to offer the healthiest product to our members, because we followed the original plan. This is the outward expression of our hearts towards God and to you.

Jesus said that Matt 20:28 "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

We at Embrace Farm, pray that you and your family have a great time of celebration this Easter holiday.