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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN (04/13/17)
It has been said, farmers in the beef cattle business, for a long period of time, will probably experience a set of twins sooner or later.

Having raised beef cattle for over twenty years, this is the first time a cow in my small herd has been blessed with twins. I searched and found that beef cattle have twins 1 to 7 percent of the births depending upon the breed. Though fairly rare, the calves are born 1 to 2 weeks ahead of single calves.

The cow like most will leave one calf and take the other across the pasture and raise just one calf. This happened and so we are now bottle feeding the bull calf and keeping it in the garage at night. The calf has weak front feet but is able to get up on its own. It bottle feeds good and appears to doing very well.

As I thought about this situation, where the cattle herd abandoned the calf, I thought about a person becoming a new born Christian, and all the help they will need, like a bottle feed calf. Our Lord tells us in the Bible how he will be treated and suffer. Luke 17:25" But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation." Yes, the Lord was rejected . died on the cross, was buried and rose again on the third day. What a wonderful day for all of us sinners, as the Lord gave us a way to eternal salvation. if we put our hope, trust and faith in Him, repent of our sins and accept the Lord as our Savior.

The heifer calf that the mother accepted most likely will be a Freemartin (sterile) and will become beef steak. However, the rejected bull calf will be a replacement bull in our herd with the twin genetics in future calves.. The Lord has blessed us and cannot praise Him enough as he solves our trials and tribulations.
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Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
04/21/17
This is interesting. I grew up across from a dairy farm and remember having twins. It was my job to name them. I thought of veal and cutlet (I guess I was a strange 10yo). Anyhow, I digress. I loved the irony in this story. The calf accepted will likely become slaughtered,yet the rejected calf will live on and father many others. I wonder what made the cow keep the heifer. I also wonder how often my choices my not be the best. It's quite cool how God still has a very important purpose for both calves. They are different, yet both necessary. You made me think, and maybe I over thought it a bit, but I do know God always has a plan.
Elaine Hemingway
04/23/17
I loved this story and am blessed by the insights given. Yes, how strange that the "abandoned" calf is the saved one. Blessings.
C D Swanson 
04/23/17
Excellent read, and I loved the message in the "abandoned" calf being the saved one. It held significance on a theological perspective when applied as a parable.

Well done!

Blessings~