Do Not Be Afraid, O Land
A 30-Day Devotional Through Joel for Farm Families in Hard Times
by Nicholas Dailey
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Farmers filed 315 Chapter 12 bankruptcies in 2025, up 46 percent from the year before, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 141,733 fewer farms than five years earlier. A CDC study published in 2023 found that male farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers died by suicide at a rate of 52.1 per 100,000, far above the 32.0 for working men overall. Behind each of those numbers is a family: a hailstorm, a bank meeting, a father who won't talk about the land, and a man checking markets at two in the morning.
Do Not Be Afraid, O Land is a 30-day devotional through the book of Joel. It is written for farm and ranch families in hard times.
Inside
- Has Anything Like This Ever Happened?: the ruined field, the four locusts, a man who says "fine," and a question he has never been asked out loud
- Cry Out to the LORD: gathering the elders, the granaries broken down, the cattle groaning, and telling the truth at the kitchen table
- Who Can Endure It?: the alarm, envy of the big operations, stress at home, the question of punishment, and the words "Yet even now" that turn the book toward home
- Rend Your Hearts: the true reason, "Who knows?", gathering the children, the gossip at the co-op, and a God jealous for His land
Format: PDF, 6 × 9 in layout with clickable contents
Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under the author's direction.
