I believe everyone has a desire to find a place they can call
home. Searching can take time and it
might even take years; for us it has taken a few months. Like I tell everyone this land sort of found
us.
But one might even say it took years to find because we’ve moved more times than I’d like to count in the 30 years we’ve been married.
Well 30 years come September.
But then I’m reminded of something Robert told me a long time ago, “home is wherever we are together.” That is also something we shared with our kids.
But it’s no secret that home normally requires a roof over your head and this time we discovered a place we can live without interruption.
This will be a place we can regroup and be our creative selves while working the land the way our heavenly father intended.
So, this land really isn’t about Robert or me, it’s
about our kids and the world they are going to have to live in after we’re
gone.
It’s my hope that while God gives me the energy and air to breathe freely that we can establish a homestead environment our kids can takeover after we’re gone.
Maybe that sounds crazy and maybe I don’t care but I remember long ago something my grandmother said to me, and it was powerful.
"One day people will need the skills you have because they will be helpless in desperate times."
I was very young when she said this and for most of my life whether it was in person, or in written letters she would remind me of those words. She’s been gone many years now and those words are engraved in my brain.
So, our new place will be a blessing and with all gifts we must be good stewards. Our hope to work this undeveloped land with integrity.
This particular lot has been part of one family for 150 years. It traveled through nine generations, and we are honored to establish roots here.
We finished raising our kids on a small farm and so perhaps
we will just be picking up where we left off.
This time with a little bit more land, a more grateful heart and years
of knowledge that feels like second nature.
In the mix of standing trees and those that will be removed there is no doubt that we will be a blessing to this land, and it will be a blessing to us.
A place of simplicity until God calls us to our real home.
-Carole