Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

by Rory Feek

Overview

Sometimes, it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted. As opposed to homesteading, Once Upon a Farm is a book on “lifesteading” as New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm, while doing everything but farming.

With frequent stories of his and Joey’s years together, and how those guide his life today, Rory unpacks just what it means to be open to new experiences. Much like Jesus’ biblical parable, when we scatter our seeds, some will grow in the fertile land and warm sun. Rory contends that it’s the same way with our dreams, but we must always pay attention to what our story is teaching us.

It’s long been said that timing is everything, and it is, unless you haven’t done the work to be prepared. What does it mean to cultivate life, to be open to new directions, to invest in another person as a way of connecting with God? Through his wealth of stories and vulnerable spirit, Rory opens up on those struggles in his own life and, in the process, shows the way for us all.

“This isn’t a how-to book, it’s more of a how we or more accurately how He (God) planted us on a few acres of land and grew something bigger than Joey or I could have ever imagined.”

It’s an ongoing story of a new frontier, all woven into a new season of learning to grow a new life and love in the land that his wife loved so much.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785221098
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	06/18/2019
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,021,736
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Rory Feek is a true renaissance man, known as one of Nashville’s premiere songwriters, entrepreneurs, and out-of-the-box thinkers. He is a world-class storyteller, crossing all creative mediums, from music and film to books and digital media, and is the New York Times bestselling author of This Life I Live and author of Once Upon a Farm and The Cow Said Neigh. As a blogger, Rory shares his heart and story with the world through roryfeek.com and has more than 2 million Facebook followers. As a songwriter, Rory has written multiple number-one songs. As an artist, he is half of the Grammy-winning country music duo Joey+Rory. As a filmmaker, Rory wrote and filmed the touching documentary To Joey, with Love and directed the feature-length love story Finding Josephine. Rory has appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and The Today Show. As a storyteller, Rory has a new role as Chief Creative Officer of the television network RFD-TV, where he will continue to share not only his own story with the world but also the incredible stories of many others. RFD-TV originally aired the television variety show The Joey+Rory Show and will also air Rory’s most recent television series, This Life I Live. Rory and his youngest daughter, Indiana, live an hour south of Nashville in an 1870s farmhouse, where she goes to school in a one-room schoolhouse built for their community.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Coming Home 1

Day One 5

A Bigger Love 11

One Plus One 17

My College Years 21

Semper Fi 25

Barber Shopping 31

Choo-Choo Training 37

Dollars and Sense 41

Unwritten 45

Dearly Beloved 51

Fixer-Upper 53

Location, Location, Location 59

Three Chords and the Truth 61

I Hold the Pen 65

Video Rewind 69

Daddy, What If? 73

Monday, Monday 77

Brilliant Limitations 81

The Bus Stops Here 85

Mayberry 89

Some Barn 95

Heart Break 99

Farmhouse Christmas 103

Bib & Buckle 107

Presidential Treatment 113

I Love You, I Love You, I Love You 115

Modern Family 119

Our Very Own 123

Heartlight 127

Bare-Metal Truth 131

Brand-New Bus 135

Speak Love 143

Miss Congeniality 147

Hymn and Her 149

Uncle Dale 153

Boy in the Mirror 157

Climbing Trees 161

My Worst Nightmare 165

Happy Mother's Day, Dad 169

Boots and Bibles 173

Fire Kids 177

Teaching Me How to Love You 183

Love Does 187

Gentleman Farmer 191

Field of Dreams 195

Special Eyes 199

Home School 203

Unfamous 207

WWJD? 211

Once Upon a Farm 215

Lifesteading 217

Sign of the Cross 221

From the Cradle to the Grave 225

Always and Forever 227

Last Letters 231

About the Author 235