For several years the Kingdom of God has been heavy on my mind, and I have struggled with how to present my thoughts on what that entails in the here and now at this website.
But the bottom line is I believe the Kingdom of God is the Heaven and the Land. And mankind has been designated to live on the land.
Lately, homesteading has primarily been on my mind. Especially, given all that is happening in the man-made world, which I commonly refer to as the System, these days.
I’ve found myself retreating even further from the System, having recently paid off our home mortgage, and embracing more fully our homesteading life.
I think the world needs more homesteaders — not farmers or simply gardeners, but full-fledged homesteaders. I believe this is what we were made to be, operating in the world made by our Creator.
Homesteaders are people who utilize the beasts of the field, birds of the air, and that which creeps along the ground, in conjunction with all the freely available natural resources to them, to help provide for and sustain themselves on the land they inhabit.
Their purpose is not to yield a profit, although they may have some sort of cottage industry to help obtain things they do not produce for themselves. Their purpose is to simply live — and live well.
Learning how to homestead, and doing it well, offers a kind of satisfaction no other occupation can provide.
Along with the natural cycle of day & night, there are seasons of sowing & reaping and kidding & culling throughout the year that all need to be managed properly in order to sustain life throughout the year. (I’m still in the early stages of learning how to manage it all.)
Homesteading is hard work for sure, but it is immensely rewarding, because you are able to exercise your free will every moment of the day, collaborating with the Creator all throughout it, seeking to understand His world and how best to operate within it.
And at the end of each day in which we continually enjoy the fruits of our labor, we have so much to be grateful for, knowing who our Source is, the Creator God.
And when we lay our heads down at night, we can enjoy peaceful rest having served the purpose for which we are intended.
I particularly enjoy the fall season with all its blaze of color and crisp, cool nights, but every season carries its own splendor and points of pleasure.
Looking back over the spring & summer of 2020, when the world as most have known it has gone completely haywire, I’m eternally grateful for the life my husband and I’ve been given, the blessings of fertility and dominion we enjoy, and the opportunity to live in this age of the Kingdom of God.
