There's something about being out in the country that seems to settle my soul. I don't know if it's the green hills rolling to the horizon, the lazy cows grazing happily in the fields, or just the slower pace of everyday life that seems to hang suspended in the wind. There is something here that makes me want to be a better person. To spend less and save more. To speak less and listen more. To worry less and love more.
I am amazed by the tug and pull nature can have on one's heart. Alone in the freedom of nature it is easy to forget daily tasks that pile up like mountains. It's easy to let go of rights that have been wronged. Easy to find a place of harmony and grace. Time slows and things that are truly important - family, faith, love seem to rise to precedence over money, pride and power.
Life is simpler.
For your entertainment: Children running barefoot through fresh cut grass. Birds singing songs of praise. Flowers reaching high towards the sun. Cows bellowing. Horses whineying. Dogs barking. Kids laughing. Filling your senses with love and hope that this life we live and the world we live in is not yet lost.
I am made for this life. A life that lives the truth of the fact that what we take with us is nothing we can buy or save for. A life that purposes to see beyond the 9 to 5, to move beyond the status quo.
Goodness abounds. Love overflows. My cup runneth over.
Yearning for a Simpler Life
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