Retirement is a working life at Fair Haven. Our little patch of earth was 10 years ago as wild as Borneo, hanging unkept over the peaceful Tennessee. We have pushed back an acre and nature pushes back twice as hard. You cannot defeat nature, it has been thriving since “Let There Be Light and Land” and now thrives against me since, “Here take a bite.” I have found it to be a jaw-setting endeavor. We will have a lawn, a few flowers, and some new trees if I set my jaw on it. My orchard has died off but remains a dream yet set to my jaw. Grass and weeds thrive on our driveway and our lawn has many a bare spot. But this is the joy of it all, nature will abide and often welcome a quiet interlude with itself as itself. Nature is basically peaceful, it lies around looking beautifully natural and if I will, I can sit with it. Nature never looks at me admiring my beauty, it is above all things, nature for God’s sake. The trees, river, and sun cannot talk back to God, they keep at his command to be until he altars that command with a few words like, “Peace! Be still!!” One day He will push back on nature and say, “Be made new” and it will then have peace with me and stop pushing back…and Fair Haven will finally be aptly named.
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