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Three weeks into this time of social distancing and my emo\u00adtions were melting down.<\/p>\n

Around the world, people were sheltering to prevent the spread of Covid-19<\/a>. You\u2019d think someone like me, a veteran at being alone, would have no prob\u00adlem with isolation. Since my husband John\u2019s death from cancer seven years ago, I\u2019ve managed our 468-acre farm and cattle operation on the North Da\u00adkota prairie by myself. I\u2019ve learned to live with solitude, silence.<\/p>\n

Yet this forced separation from my neighbors, my community and the co\u00adoperative farming arrangements that had taken me years to develop was stretching me to my limit. I was 67. Never had I felt so alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was Maundy Thursday<\/a>, four days before Easter. How I longed for John\u2019s companionship, his hardy strength and clear-headed wisdom. \u201cLord, please let me hear his voice!\u201d I said out loud during my morning prayer time.<\/p>\n

It was an unusually bold prayer. Or\u00addinarily I am content with God\u2019s own ways of communicating. A sudden feel\u00ading of joy perhaps or a flash of insight amid silence. A memory of something John had said during the many long conversations we shared during our nearly 30-year marriage.<\/p>\n

Was it presumptuous to ask for something more direct? It was Holy Week<\/a>. If ever God might grant such a prayer, it was now.<\/p>\n

My partnership with John had been close, and I had not expected to be alone at this stage of my life. We did not have children. The farm was our life\u2019s work, and we worked in a prayer\u00adful rhythm, alternating solitude, to\u00adgetherness, silence and conversation throughout each day.<\/p>\n

John was a steady, thoughtful man. He made decisions carefully, writing out plans and goals. He had a way of considering ideas from all sides to ar\u00adrive at a balanced view.<\/p>\n

I needed that balance now. The news was full of conflicting opinions about the severity of the pandemic<\/a>, the im\u00adportance of quarantine, the right gov\u00adernmental response. I knew my age put me at risk. But I had a farm to run, and I couldn\u2019t do it without help from my neighbors. John would have known how to sort through the confusion.<\/p>\n

Since John\u2019s death, I had built up a small community of people I worked with or just visited over coffee. I could endure isolation because there was al\u00adways human contact to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Nothing is as comforting as a hug<\/a> once in a while, and my two young friends Julia and Mirek were certainly great huggers! They owned Farmtastic Heritage Foods Hub, a farm-to-table restaurant and catering busi\u00adness they had started in the nearby town of Anamoose. Julia and Mirek sold locally grown and prepared foods, including grass-fed beef from my farm.<\/p>\n

I tried to visit them as often as I could to support their business, which had become an outlet for local growers<\/a>. I loved Julia\u2019s salads and desserts. And I loved even more the warm welcome I got and the sense of community in the restaurant, which occupied an old post office that had been vacant and marked for demolition before Julia and Mirek rescued it.<\/p>\n

The restaurant was closed now. Would it survive? If it did, would I be able to hug my friends the next time I visited?<\/p>\n

I wondered the same thing about other friends in the area. Here in North Dakota<\/a>, dropping by for coffee is prime social time. When would I have that again?<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t visit my older sister, Kar\u00aden. She was rightfully concerned about exposure to the virus<\/a>, and she knew I had to be in contact with other people to keep the farm going. We mutually agreed not to meet for coffee.<\/p>\n

And then there were Tony and Sam. They were my neighbors on either side of the farm, young men in their thirties, just starting their families. John had gotten to know Tony first, supporting his interest in horses. I had known Sam since he was a 17-year-old member of the church youth group John and I used to lead. Now he was married and establishing his own operation.<\/p>\n

Life as an independent farmer is challenging in this era of agribusiness consolidation. I let Tony and Sam graze their cattle on 68 acres that John and I owned. John had grazed our cows on that piece of land, but I simply couldn\u2019t manage it. It was too far away from the main farm.<\/p>\n

Sam and Tony occasionally helped me on my farm. Some jobs required more raw strength than I had. I called Sam and Tony my \u201cfarm cooperators.\u201d We worked shoulder to shoulder, treat\u00ading a sick calf, pushing a stubborn cow into a trailer, hauling heavy loads. Then we had coffee back at the house or visited outside.<\/p>\n

At least we used to. Sam and Tony still came over to help. But we did our best to keep our distance. How long would I have to give up that treasured time with my neighbors<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn, where are you?\u201d I demanded of his empty chair in the dining room. He had often sat there to do paperwork or just think or pray.
\nAll that day, I listened for him. But all I heard was the wind.<\/p>\n

Good Friday came, and my sense of loneliness deepened.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease forgive me for not letting you be enough,\u201d I said to God that morning. I still had misgivings about my bold prayer<\/a> the day before to hear John\u2019s voice. I was in my prayer place by the din\u00ading room window. I reached for my Bible to read about Jesus\u2019 death, but for some reason I picked up my journal instead.<\/p>\n

I opened to the entry for May 1, 2013. I had been at the hospital that day while John underwent surgery. The hospital was run by a religious organization, and there was a crucifix on the wait\u00ading room wall. I remembered willing myself to envision that cross empty, Jesus already alive and appearing to his friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI proclaim Jesus Christ, risen!\u201d I had written in the journal while pray\u00ading for a miracle<\/a> for John. He died a few months later.<\/p>\n

I closed my journal, put aside the memories and went outside to do the day\u2019s chores. I pitched hay to the goats, watered the calves, checked cows and horses. Their company did nothing to ease my isolation.<\/p>\n

Chores done, I went back to the house and climbed the stairs to my office, where I supplemented farm in\u00adcome by writing articles for agricul\u00adtural publications. I passed the room where John had kept his own desk and saw that the two-foot rustic cross on his desk had somehow fallen facedown. I went in to set the cross back in place.<\/p>\n

I noticed some papers on the floor, which was odd because I knew this room top to bottom and those papers hadn\u2019t been there before. Maybe they slipped off when the cross fell. I picked them up and put them back on the desk. They were some of John\u2019s old operating budgets for our cattle herd.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I spotted another stack of papers on top of a small box on the floor beside the desk. Recently I\u2019d been cleaning out the closet in that room and set that box on the floor. But I didn\u2019t remember putting any papers there. Six yellowed sheets were filled with John\u2019s scrawl.<\/p>\n

So many farm records in this house. Why did I save them all? But wait! These weren\u2019t budgets. There were paragraphs here, John\u2019s thoughts about something.<\/p>\n

I rushed downstairs to the dining room to lay the pages on the table and decipher John\u2019s writing, which was never easy to read.<\/p>\n

It dawned on me what these papers were. Long ago, we had mused about John\u2019s writing a weekly column for ru\u00adral newspapers. He certainly had a lot to say about farming.<\/p>\n

Apparently, he\u2019d written a few sam\u00adple columns but never shared them with me. I didn\u2019t mind. He would have shared his writing only after he was satisfied he\u2019d gotten it right.<\/p>\n

I sat at the table with these tangible memories of my husband spread be\u00adfore me. John wrote in his customary self-deprecating manner, his oblique way of coming at an issue, sidestepping hard-and-fast judgments while point\u00ading toward a hopeful outcome.<\/p>\n

One of the columns mentioned walks we used to take around the farm. \u201cWe talk, we visit, we discuss,\u201d he wrote. Music to my soul!
\nAnother column spoke of \u201cgreat and enduring adversities\u201d testing charac\u00adter. Press on, Raylene, <\/em>John seemed to be saying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He signed each column, \u201cThe Red Leaf.\u201d That must have been a nod to his Canadian heritage. He\u2019d been born in Manitoba, and we had met when I was working at a Canadian ranch as a young woman.<\/p>\n

The more I read, the more peaceful I felt<\/a>. Here in these pages, discovered by accident on the darkest day of the Christian cal\u00adendar, was the voice I had been longing to hear.<\/p>\n

God had answered my prayer in his own time and way. And in that answer came all the other times God had been faithful through the never-ending chal\u00adlenges of farming and making a life in the demanding landscape of the north\u00adern prairie.<\/p>\n

I was alone, yes, walking into an un\u00adcertain future.<\/p>\n

And yet I was not alone<\/a>. God was here. So were my years of experience as a farmer and the wisdom of my hus\u00adband, which I still carried in my life and my work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is hope for your future,\u201d God promises in the book of Jeremiah, one of my favorite Bible verses. I believe it, even during this difficult time. A future of love and grace. Of renewed life. Of coffee with my sister and conversa\u00adtions with my neighbors. Hope that flows from a God for whom no prayer is too bold or too big.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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