“Morning has broken, like the first morning…”. I am convinced that humans are meant to live in the wild. By this, I do not mean Jurassic Park but the earth as it naturally is. When God commanded us to “subdue” or “govern” the earth He did not mean enslave or banish. Most westerners have little or no contact with the earth and today our children are so isolated from it they have lost one of the great treasures of life, adventure. When we regularly place ourselves in the earth it challenges us in ways nothing else does, it requires strength, ingenuity, restraint, patients, courage, wisdom, and above all else physical labor. It allows you to continually know by experience that you are capable, you’re up to it, you’ve got it. But above all else it teaches you humble, grateful, admiration for God who thought it all up and then was kind enough to create and share it.
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