Back to. . .well. . . it isn't quite reality!

Nothing racks the brain (and the emotions) worse than returning to the hum-drum routine of "normal" life after a weekend in a place that you love to be. It's a confusing feeling - energized and excited about what life holds in the coming months and at the same time longing to return to where you were just moments ago. 

 

i am sure that up here in the great white north folks must be tiring of hearing my constant chattering about community. About the benefits of living together and serving one another while learning to invite Jesus to work through us. About finding a much more sustainable way of living by stripping away the excesses of individualism (and by this i mean ownership, and not personalities!). About regressing technologically in some respects. . . so as to unclutter landfills and make even our refuse more ecologically friendly. About simplifying and spending more time devoted to relationships and less time devoted to our affairs with our televisions and computers (ironic isn't it - but hey, i am at work). Still i dream of community forming and growing. i dream of brother and sisterhood developing in new depths of love even here in New England. i dream of a love that cancels out debts and provides enough for one another and an excess that flows out and over to those in need. A contagious love.

 

And hope remains.

 

In our time with our dear friends we had many conversations about how we should live and how we struggle to find that. We spent some time reflecting, and we spent some time stacking boxes, unstacking boxes, talking politics and the economy (no big suprise there given the season) cooking, washing potatoes, looking at rocks, and leaves and red efts, and singing. . .

i will give a more thorough report in the coming days, but now we are back and i am excited about the future. Yes winter is fast approaching. In fact i just saw on the news that parts of New York were buried under a foot of snow. . .i hope Bellvale was spared :-)

There are a slew of projects around the pharm to do, the turkeys are getting big, the chickens are laying and we have the food pantry and deer season to keep us busy for the time. . .

 

i love this time of year!!!!!