So after I got back into the swing of things and I caught up on all the news of the day, I decided that besides prayer, the only thing I could do is continue to be lead by God on the road to the purpose He has in store for me. I believe God has been speaking very clearly to my husband and me. God's purpose is for us to eventually move out of NY and to a farm. I believe we are to work from home and homeschool our children. He keeps telling us how He is going to give us land and bless our crops in abundance.
"All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God:
"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. "Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. "Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. "The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. "The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. "So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. "The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. "The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully, and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them." (Duet. 28:2-14)
This is only one of the various reading God has given us and the funny thing is He gave us this reading LONG before we knew He was leading us in this direction. Since we believe this is where God is taking us, I've been doing something I enjoy beyond belief. I've been reading blogs on homesteading, on farming for farmers markets and on CSA's. It's so exciting to know that I'm spending my days preparing for the blessings. The same way you prepare the soil, plant the seed, water and weed and wait for the harvest... that is what I feel I'm doing now.
These are the older tomato plants that have been out there for a few weeks,
with the neighbors yard behind them.
This is one of the two lettuce plants that survived and a small tomato plant our neighbors gave us.
It's gotten a lot bigger in a week.
close up of the donated tomato plant.
The big one on the right is the artichoke plant
and the two on the left are the spinach plants we direct seeded.
They weren't doing too well for a while because the sun was burning them up.
But they seem to be doing better.
How quickly the weeds come back. I just weeded last Sunday.
These are the newly planted tomato, red, yellow and orange bell pepper, cucumber, and 1 basil plant.
We also direct seeded some basil in the middle "row". We literally just threw them in the ground with no rhyme or reason. We are completely aware that we should space them and blah, blah, blah but we don't have a lot of space and there are a heck of a lot of seeds in a packet so we just threw them on the ground and hoped for the best. The only section we don't have a picture of is the one with the red beans in the ground and in two pots. We went to the supermarket, bought some dried red beans and planted them. Just an experiment.We'll see how that goes.
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