Why We Do What We Do

Yesterday on Facebook, my husband posted the following:

I know very few free range humans. Instead, most are very domesticated humans. If you live in the city your environment is not free range but you may meet the USDA criteria for “cage free”.

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I thought that was pretty clever.

To that he received the following response from a friend of ours, who stayed with us for a few months in 2016:

…you are also a slave to your work. Like you barely spend any time with your family and you are a workaholic. At least you were when I lived with you. You may be free in some ways others are not, but me and many others are much freer because we have much more time to do more important things than farm work.

This prompted a few comments of my own. I responded…

More important things than farm work? I don’t think you fully grasp what we are doing here. 

We have a family — children, who are growing up in a society that is dependent on the system for *everything* — a society who is addicted to their Smart Phones and are continually being dumbed down in all areas of life. 

Growing up in a society…who is addicted to their Smart Phones and are continually being dumbed down…

We’re working towards breaking free from that, and we’re teaching our children how to become and remain independent. That’s the goal, anyway. And that takes *a lot* of work, especially when you’re on your own.

Yes, my husband works a lot, and yes, we are still slaves to a mortgage company. But I work alongside him in various capacities and together we are paying down our debt, while building for the future.

We are not only providing for and protecting our children, but we are also training them in the way that they should go, and ultimately I believe we are making the world a better place by practicing what we preach.

We work hard, and our whole family is involved in one way or another, but we also enjoy a whole day off from work every week.

Our “farm work” can seem unimportant to the average Joe, but it is focused on restoring the ways of the Creator and leading people back to those ways, as well as back to the Creator — and providing answers to many of the questions this world fails to address.

What’s more important than that?

And then I followed up with making the following video to better explain why we do what we do.

If you live in a city, there is no condemnation for that. My husband and I both spent our fair share of life living in the city as well. But we came out of it, and you can, too.

While I didn’t say this in the video, we came out of living there because we felt that the city was not a good place to raise a family. We wanted better for them.

I moved around a lot in my life, but moving to the country at the age of 35,  leaving the city and a good-paying, full-time job and having to start all over again, was the best move I ever made.

It brought me closer to my family and back to the Creator’s handiwork, and gave me a deeper appreciation for our Maker.

What a blessing, truly.