A new life on the farm. Financial needs being met by the Lord through the provision of a job. Without that job and weekly paycheck the Lord would have led and provided otherwise - but we are amazed at the way these things have come together.
And yet the central thrust - the whole and purposed life to which we are called - is yet mysterious to us. It is yet unshaped and ill-defined - however real and substantial it might be. I hesitate to call it farming - and yet it is. I hesitate to call it agrarian - and yet it is. I hesitate to call it pastoring - and yet it is.
Certainly the goal, the pursuit, the purpose is not to pursue "farming" or "agrarianism" or "pastoring" or any other such thing. The center to this all is a life of wholeness that carries with it and in it a certain integrity and durable continuity between ourselves, this place, and the resurrection of all things.
I hesitate to write such seemingly high-minded sentiments - but what else is there and how else would I put it?
Because of who we are, how we are created, and who the Lord is redeeming us to be; because of this rural place with its fields and farms - its history and heritage; because Christ is risen from the dead and God in Christ is reconciling the world to himself this is what we are called to be and do.
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