We talk a lot in society about faith. We like to mention in passing about having faith or with faith anything is possible. Even though I believe whole heartedly in both those, I also believe that we love to talk the talk, but never get uncomfortable enough to walk the walk. This post this week is more about mind set than progress, and that is just because I could not pass these feelings up. We have had two conversations and one life event to bring it full force to us in the last week.
When we began this new path in life, we did so because we wanted real change and in a really big way. Life as we knew it, was just not what we had envisioned and we did not want to wake up one day regretting it all. We felt a very real pull to our property in Montana, so we took all the signs and we lead with faith. Faith that our god would lead us and never forsake us and also that we together as a family can and will do anything we set our minds to. This did not mean we were taking the easy way or even the best way, just the way that we knew, the way that faith pulled us towards. After we sold the home in Oregon, I really had to focus hard on getting my mind straight. Really, truly strip it all down, and get honest with myself. I knew the coming years were going to be pretty damn difficult to say the least, but I also knew that my families health, happiness and peace was more important then any comfort I was currently experiencing.
We got information this week that our well would be at least another 30 days. Chad immediately apologized to me, not that he has any control, and it was so in my face because I looked at him and was like for what? This is really inconvenient, but I can honestly say I am not upset. Things are going to happen in this process, things are going to not always go to the time schedule we planned. We are not in control, our path our journey is already preplanned we just get to choose how we get there. How we think, how we behave, how we lead by example, how we believe and have faith. That is what we get to control everyday and how we take care of our body and minds. Life is going to happen and when you are rebuilding everything from a sticks and stones perspective, you are definitely going to come up against bumps in the road, but it is just that. This is how I chose to lead my life/our life because life is just to damn short to let the little things become a part of who you are. Honestly the since of peace and calm that has come over our family is honestly so crazy and so 100% amazing. The sense of being and contentment was at first very uncomfortable, but now that I have allowed myself to feel it and be in it, so refreshing and eye opening. Very little rattles me anymore, and that is huge. Now I know as life gets more involved and more “busy” that may change, but I am embracing this and being so very grateful for it. I am living with faith, grace and gratitude.
We paint and texture this week!!! Yay, so excited. I have totally embraced sanding sheet rock the last week, and am attaching a picture for your laughing enjoyment. Yes, yes that is a shower cap on my head because when you are on shower rations, itchy sheet rock dust is not meant to be in the scalp. We have laughed and loved through this, and that fills my heart so full. We will continue to keep working and leading my example and see where our path leads and enjoy and appreciate whatever time we are granted on earth.
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