Day of Rest on a Farm?

Since moving out to our farm there seems to always be at least one or two projects that need completion.  Now that spring is approaching that number is rising!!

Farmer Willie works in the city during the week so the only times we have to really work on things are the weekends, yet we are pretty strong believers in taking a day of rest.  I have discovered that is hard on the farm.

Not only are there animal chores that must be done daily, but my desire to get things done and knowing that we have a day where we are both home is huge!  It has become really hard for us to continue taking a day off.

Yesterday was one of those days.  We worked on a couple of really neat projects on Saturday and I really, REALLY wanted to continue to work on them yesterday, but it was our day of rest.

So the day begins and there are a few things that had to be done such as taking care of the animals, we had previously scheduled a trip yesterday morning to look at some beehives we are purchasing, and there were some peach trees that had to be put into the ground, but other than that we rested.

I am so thankful that we did.  What I noticed yesterday was all that we would have missed had we not taken the time to rest.

Children playing on the zip line.

Lizards hanging out in the tree house!

Puppy dogs playing.

Sweet girls playing with kitty cats!

Sitting and enjoying being outside.

And time to enjoy being with my sweet family!

So the lesson I learned is this...The Lord told us to take a day of rest for a reason.  So that we can sit back, look at all He has given us and be able to say...It is good!



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