We have been dreaming a long time. So long that I feel like we have always had
this dream. In reality it’s probably
been about 4 years. It’s funny how
things change, your dreams change, your actions change once you become a
parent. Life takes on a different
meaning. You start reading labels,
wanting to know what is in EVERYTHING you feed them and put on them. And, if you are as crazy as I am, you start
thinking even as early as when they are crawling about what kind of school they
will go to and the things you want them to learn.
Then you start to plan to create a life that allows you to
do all of the things that you want to do for your family without breaking the
bank.
For us that dream means living a sustainable lifestyle, being able
to produce as much as we consume ourselves.
Being able to grow the majority of our food and meat. Being able to live off the land and give our children the best of life without being
constantly in debt.
The big problem with that?
In the area we are from land prices are ridiculous. Sometimes a third of an acre going for $100K
plus. I understand supply and demand,
and this place is BEAUTIFUL so I understand people wanting to live here, I mean
I couldn't imagine living anywhere else! But for those of us who don’t
bring home six figures or not interested in overwhelming debt, you feel stuck.
Once we started talking about purchasing a tract of land we
started making a list of things our dream
property would need to have and praying.
Water (like a spring) would be a necessity, wooded area with mature
trees, a good couple of acres would be great, in our home
town close to our families and with a price tag we could feel good about. It was all just a
fantasy at that point. That is until Hubby actually had
a dream or vision of sorts where the Lord dropped into his spirit that the land
we were to purchase would have good water, it would be 8 acres or better and
gave him the price that we could reasonably afford to pay off in a timely
manner.
So we knew it was out there and we knew that just anything
would not work. We knew that in God’s
time we would find the property He had for us.
In the early part of 2016 Hubby was contacted by a family
friend who had a great loss in his family.
A great loss that I cannot fathom. But due to this they had a piece of property
for sale. After some talk back and forth
we found out that it was 14 acres +/- , was wooded and hadn’t been logged in
the past probably 80 years, it had 2 springs and was only a few miles from Hubby's parents home.
He talked to them about price and after some negotiations they agreed
with the price that the Lord had given him.
It seemed meant to be.
It has taken many blessings and a year later for us to
finally get to today. Those blessings
include; the 14 acres turning out to be 16.31, our needing $10k to put down to
get the loan turning into just a few thousand due to us already making a good
faith payment to the sellers, a hiccup with the title search that turned out to
be nothing and everything just working out so smoothly.
So today, June 28th, 2017 we went to the lawyer’s
office and signed the papers on our new property.
We are blessed beyond belief at the thought that we now own
land in our home town and in a community that has
been home to both of our families for several generations back. We feel like we are going back home to be
with our people.
So it begins, the long process of turning this land into a
homestead, a homeplace for our children.
And making a long awaited dream come to fruition.
