Aspire to Live...

I awake and go to sleep looking at the earth.  Our bed is on wheels and every night we roll it to our windows so we can go to sleep and wake to the beauty of God’s earth.  He’s loaned us the woods to the right and left of us, the mountain behind us, and the hard-won acre we cleared to live on.  It is a great encouragement to wake up here, the beauty of the earth laid out before you slowly becoming visible as the earth turns itself to our star.  It awakens a great feeling of potential for good in me.  Its beauty spurs me to contemplate what beauty can I accomplish today, what good can I do, it incites in me a desire for kind adventure, “to aspire to live quietly…and work with my hands.”