Have I ever mentioned that I grew up on a farm? Oh yeah! We had cows, pigs, horses, chickens, gardens, and lots of life lessons.
Mr. OverKill and I used to dream of buying a little farm outside of town and giving the kids that same type of childhood.
We had plans to move from our city house 6 years ago.
Yikes!
Life happens, and the Lord has kept us here, much longer than the 5 years we had planned.
It made me quite sad for a time…until I realized, we have a backyard homestead!
I have my little garden, that produces bountiful crops.
Enough to even put some up for later!
We have a small grove of orange trees.
The girls have rabbits…
that are teaching them all about responsibility for another life.
And Little Man has his chucks.
Which are even producing food for us now!
I have plenty of opportunities to get my hands dirty.
And it seems I am morphing into my sweet Gram.
LOL!
When I looked at my life, I initially thought that the Lord has disregarded my hopes and dreams, but now I can see that He just had a different way of bringing it about.
I realized this morning while I was playing in the dirt how thankful I am for our little homestead, our microfarm. It never fails that as I work in the garden and prepare the soil for planting, that my heart sings in thankfulness to God for all our blessings, and then I pour out my heart to my Heavenly Father pleading for those in chaos and turmoil. Then, I beg for wisdom to journey this path He has set us on, that I may walk worthy of this calling He has given me.
*We now call our “farm chores” Farm Friday. That is when we clean pins and seriously weed the garden, etc. The kids think the alliteration is fun and now farm chores aren’t so boring any more, they are now, “Farm Friday.”