This is the bare truth of it -- we have been living on the front part of the wild acres since we purchased it. We knew we couldn't be far away if we were to work on this place and build a home. The Lord provided us a mobile home (we purchased it at a bank repot auction) that was very liveable - not large - liveable with just a little fixing up and here we have been what Carpenter's Wife calls "camping" since we purchased the acres. I am thankful for the little patches of weeds that have covered up SOME of the red mud - it was a hard pill to swallow to call this my front yard before the weeds came up - actually it was a very muddy mess that didn't always stay outside where it belonged.
I tend to laugh at myself now wondering how on earth I got it into my dreamin' head that we would sign the papers and buy this big piece of wild and wooly acres and then suddenly (what was I thinking!) about...hmm...a year later??..... move into the big dream house we had planned to build. What lessons that have needed to be learned in contentment, patience, and waiting, waiting, waiting...still learning.....daily! (Carpenter's Wife calls it God's Grade School - if I could ever graduate I might get a new lesson to work on!)
Oh such a blessing in deed Miss Martha! We purchased our 32 acres in July 2004. We rented the tiny house our first, then in March 2006 we moved out here with the goal of building in one year............well here we are still in the old and tiny house. But we are making progress and so thankful to just have our own land!
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A Country Helpmeet
Hi there Country Helpmeet! So glad you have found your way into the country - I know you are enjoying it. We love our country life!
ReplyDeleteOur family watched a video of a version of Swiss Family Robinson last week. Lara (the mother) said something towards the end of the movie that really grabbed me - here they had been stranded on this island after the shipwreck -7 long years they had worked to survive and build a home from what they could find from the shipwreck and on the island - finally a ship arrived and was there to rescue them - and they decided to NOT leave the island but stay. They had made it home and learned so many lessons about life and each other during the adventure being stranded on the island. She says (I am paraphrasing) "I have wished and dramed about the day I could leave this island and now it is here and I find I would rather stay here." I think so much of it is in the wishing, waiting, working to make a home - I have come to realize I won't be any happier once we move into the new big house - my happiness is not in things - it is in us.
~ Carpenter's Wife