Out Our Way: Calving season

1 Peter 1:3 - Believers begin a new life when they are born again by the Spirit

Out our way, though spring is months away, we enter into the new season of life at the end of January and into February. The cold gets greater, the nights seem darker, and the sunlight just isn't as strong. To the rest of the world it is the "dead of winter." But for the rancher and cowhand, it is the life of winter ... for it is calving season.

It will be months before the pastures are green and ice is melted - a long time before we will smell the sage, hear the meadowlarks, and watch the youngsters leaping and pl...