New Millennium Exodus – Leaving Cities for Rural Lifetime and a Humble Household in God’s Region (Element 2)

3-21-02

5:15 AM. For me, this is late. The guard hardly ever arrived this morning to open up the Pleassanton, CA, local community pool. I waited till 6:15 AM and returned property. Now, I am off plan and staying swept into a number of instructions at after while I decide up a variety of jobs in random order to make the adjustment to a new timetable.

We bought the land about 17 months back. Teri at first turned interested in it whilst we appeared for a mountain residence with some acreage all over it for me to have a massive backyard garden. We saved passing it whilst in the car with the genuine estate agent (their business is in the plaza at the bottom of the picture). You can not see the land pretty well from the street simply because of trees and an embankment that blocks the check out to some degree. What Teri appreciated about it was the condition and duration. She wished to see if she could set an airstrip on it. Personal pilots have the sky knowledge close to with them while they are on the floor and often see terra firma as just a start pad to the exhilaration of traveling. I base this on observations I have created. I am not a pilot despite the fact that I do fly with my wife.

In our research for a household, we discovered nothing that in good shape the desire we shared. In some conditions the plot of land seemed excellent. In other situations the perspective was wonderful. A couple homes seemed close adequate to what we needed that we could rework 1 into a property that would be appropriate for us. We ended up not hunting for a huge house. The square footage on our dwelling now is a little a lot more than 1,400 sq. ft. Principal in our requirements was that the property not be crowded by houses in close proximity to by. I crave acquiring open, organic area around me. I lived in New Mexico earlier mentioned 7,000 ft. from 1986 to 1996 and liked remaining there. That is the form of encounter I am on the lookout for right here with my wife.

So, we briefly missing desire in the household hunting. We flew to Sina Lunga, Italy to attend the wedding day of Teri’s brother in April of 2000. Remember the starting of the dot.com bubble bust? A great deal of what we supposed to go towards the new residence was missing in the stock tumble. But, “it truly is not about the funds.” So we returned to the lookup with a unique priority, investment decision benefit.

We checked and observed that the residence had not been bought still. We built a bid and went to essentially wander on the land soon after we experienced set down the earnest money. Up to that issue we had only driven past the land. We dropped off the verify with the realtors and went as a result of the gate to find what we had been buying.

It was outstanding, so tranquil. We have because realized that it is one particular of the healthiest alpine meadow ecosystems of its form in the area. It sits at 3,000 ft. A 250 year aged oak tree by the creek had fallen several months right before we began our lookup and the trunk stands as a testimony to the powerful presence it ought to have commanded over the minor valley. Pink tail hawks circled over us calling and searching for gophers to eat. Golden strands of meadow grass swayed in the delicate breeze. Daylight coated just about every inch of the valley with a twinkling glow that just about sang to your eyes about the splendor of the all-natural world.

It captured my heart. On the springy soil I walked as however it was in fact the clouds of an apparition. If there was a digital camera recording our walk all over the land, I question it would have an proper aperture environment to encompass the width of the grin throughout my deal with.

We ended up so blessed. The land was magical and we had been likely to own it quickly. We would have our open up space and be close to our mates, Linda and Mick, residing in nearby Pine Mountain Lake.

3-22-02 Thank the Lord. Thank you Jesus for each breadth I choose and just about every surprise crowding this abundant land you built for us. As Micah mentioned, (6:8)” He hath shewed thee, O guy, what is excellent and what doth the LORD need of thee, but to do justly, and to appreciate mercy, and to stroll humbly with thy God?”

I only have time for a limited commence on the reference this 7 days to Jefferson and Winthrop. The vital level of my alignment with these wonderful leaders in this circumstance, even though I would expand to really a couple of other agreements with Thomas Jefferson in particular, is their belief that folks and the group would be finest served if we kept our daily life teams compact. That, to me, recognizes the inherent complications with sustaining the good quality of an person everyday living when the sizing of the group gets to be gigantic. It relates to a Normal Systems Concept which accepts the pattern of entropy and chaos. Let us just take these two views and appear at them.

First, Jefferson believed that the United States would be ideally constituted by smaller farmers. This can be expanded up the amounts of government to contain nearby counties via the condition governments controlling the main functions of retaining everyone’s legal rights safeguarded during their daily interactions. The principal job of the federal governing administration would have been to maintain purchase between the states at the interstate amount and in the defense of the nation from international powers. Governor Winthrop, of the Plymouth colony, said just that no church ought to be more substantial than a congregation. In both conditions the ecology of the spouse and children, the group and the land they inhabit are pretty shut to the problems and joys that their personal lives will have to deal with.

These days we facial area a procedure of this sort of remarkable complexity and dimension that men and women are dwarfed by their position and relationship to the nation. The electricity required to assistance this overarching and overreaching technique will take up a bulk of our days. This can be supported by a straightforward glance at the range of times wages in a yr that go to taxes. This is not what our founding fathers envisioned. It is not the vision that the first Pilgrims held for a new Jerusalem when they crossed the Atlantic. It is a perversion in aid of a Satanic affinity for a terrific method, a good machine or the “merge” that Kesey and Chief Bromden noticed fairly clearly.

I’m off to the pool.

3-23-02 Saturday.

5:45 AM. Mornings are commonly are overflowing cavalcade of ideas for me. “Have to have a dump truck, mama, to unload my mind” (Bob Dylan). Evenings are more of a gradual glide into sleep with out the snap, crackle and pop of awakening to a return to consciousness that makes the early morning this sort of a glorious occasion.

The purpose of this book is to chronicle the holistic expertise of the setting up and actual enterprise of the exodus. The tactical factors of the exodus entail the building of our dwelling in the valley that can be witnessed in the experienced image gallery. We have not designed a residence on our individual ahead of. When we to begin with made the decision to make this occur we experienced added cash that have disappeared courtesy of the dot.com bubble bursting. We will attain the exodus despite this new money hurdle. God has a system for us. And, in our prayers, as we pay attention for His steering, we see this shift as part of the strategy.

If almost everything functions out as prepared, other visitors will be in a position to comply with the journey we have taken below and have a tutorial reserve on how they may well follow a equivalent exodus out of the confines of our hedonistic culture. That is the root cause of this mission. To flee the oppressive, ubiquitous invasion of our internal beings by what has become a world-wide corporate mentality missing any legitimate commitment to what God has revealed us is sacred. To flee the frequent and increasingly torrential erosion of morality Morality as God told us we should to behave in this world He gave us. To flee the incarceration in a prison of new financial classicism that has turn out to be an epidemic in The us and that we have spawned around the globe. To flee what has been transmogrified into a decadent descent into this contemporary variation of Caligula’s rumpus area. To observe Moses illustration and leave the substance grasp of Pharaoh, our modern-day company mix. To heed Jesus’ warning to get to the mountains when we see the entire world confused with harbingers of an evil, Satanic rule.

This early morning I am driving to the land to meet up with a potential architect. We need to stake out the driveway main to our planned site for the dwelling. In buy to have the effectively drilled for our h2o, the drilling enterprise wants to have a highway that will guidance their rig. It weights 25,000 lbs. and would sink into the gentle soil all over the property plot.

We also need to review the product despatched to me by PG & E for the dropping of a electricity line to the good deal. It has to be reviewed for accuracy in phrases of locale and specifications of electrical electrical power. At this stage, it is needed to have it place so that the pump for the very well will have ability. Inevitably, we also hope to install an inverter to provide back to PG & E the wattage generated by the lively photo voltaic panels we would like to use.

From the beginning the system for the house has been centered on owning our life and our household have a minimum dependence on ability and money determination to the phalanx of power grids, transportation grids and food items output networks. We are working to have this be sensible fairly than severe but the aim is optimizing independence in supporting ourselves on our land. In pursuit of that purpose, the home design and style will emphatically replicate each energetic and passive solar.

Modern trip will take me 3 hrs of driving to the residence. It was raining so frantically past night that it woke us up and I anxiety there may well even be flooding somewhere together the route.

We also have made revisions to the sketches the architect proposed. It is south experiencing with most glazing ( windows ) to capture passive solar vitality. The look at supplied by that orientation is brilliant. The valley rolls down from the smaller knoll our property will sit on to the creek, pond and rolling meadows of the west lender.

3-24-02

If it truly is not about the income, what is it about? God’s everlasting love.

Way too significantly of the priceless value of our non permanent existence on this planet is expended on the acquisition, intake or anticipation of material sources of meant gratification. The focus of our consideration is fastened upon the at any time multiplying options for attaining enjoyment from “factors.” We are drowning under the incessant waves of technological development that are engorging us with images to tickle our dreams. We spend the treasured forex of our legitimate life, that is the non permanent piece of eternity that is allotted us even though we are beings in this entire world, on the devilish pursuit of cars and trucks, awards, perceived sexual gratification and untold figures of satisfaction places conceived in the minds of the collective corporate promoting genius. The jewel of true price is misplaced. Currently being thankful and cognizant of the blessing God has granted us by making it possible for just about every individual the times our souls can savor in consciousness of staying guests in this wonderland, is forsaken.

If it can be not about the dollars, it is about obtaining a way to are living that lets us to honor God’s eternal presents to us. This exodus seeks a path to residing in God’s as He has commanded us. It is about strolling in and getting continuously knowledgeable of our existence in His everlasting adore no matter what our present content circumstances feel to say about the condition of our current conditions. To complete this walk demands that our eyesight be centered on what is illuminated by an everlasting mild not what flashes at facilities of sensory reception from the Tv, billboards and the raucous parade of temptations we are bombarded with nowadays. Everlasting love is really easy, from the second epistle of John, verses 2-6,

For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for good.

[3] Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in real truth and really like.

[4] I rejoiced drastically that I identified of thy little ones walking in real truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

[5] And now I beseech thee, lady, not as while I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we adore a single yet another.

[6] And this is love, that we walk after his commandments.This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye ought to walk in it.

Leaving at 7:15 yesterday early morning I was able to get to the valley by 10. For sizeable stretches of the travel I was pelted by particularly weighty rain. Right before I left the peninsula I passed into the most glorious rainbow I have at any time found. The shade bands ended up broad and vivid. I found no pot of gold when I achieved the finish of the rainbow. I was carrying the pot of bliss inside me.

I stopped 1st at the realtor’s office. I really delight in conversing with them about what is likely on up in the hills there. Although I was there having a few of copies, the architect hopeful arrived. We talked about the getaway voyages on cruise ships, as perfectly as the excursion Teri and I experienced taken to Chile. As normally happens the architect talked about traveling planes.

My wife, Teri, is a pilot. While Teri was not with me on this vacation we nevertheless finished up having about flying. I listened, yet again, as the architect retold the story of a Groveland pilot who made his last, farewell flight in command of 747 from Hawaii and shed 8 passengers and 1 flight attendant when the planes hull cracked open in excess of the Pacific. I remembered when that story broke. He experienced to get the airplane back again on two engines. I verified that our immediate neighbor, Paul Bunt, who life on the remaining hand aspect of the valley, utilised to fly C-130’s. I generally get the feeling I am surrounded by pilots who are ready at a times observe to drop every little thing and fly up into the sky in their Cessna’s, Cherokee’s and Lear Jets even as their toes are planted on the floor next to me.

I managed to break the dialogue absent from the piloting similar tales and we drove the mile up the highway to do a web page check out to figure out the site of the driveway. One of the challenges of building a house so far away is that it usually takes 6 several hours by automobile round excursion to be there. By aircraft the excursion past only an hour or so each individual way. To stake out a driveway area you require to be there. So, we ended up privileged that the rain allow up to a tender drizzle though we agreed on exactly where the driveway must arrive on to the ridge off of the county highway. Then we verified how it should direct to the stage where by the perfectly will be drilled. Following this twenty moment effort we went back again down the road a mile to the neighborhood cafe, Rosemary’s Café, for lunch and our dialogue about revisions Teri and had appear up just after reviewing Sean’s drawings.

The architect experienced a BLT with cream of potato soup and I had the pastrami on rye distinctive with Swiss cheese and coleslaw. Right away just after lunch, I disembarked on the three hour return generate to the East Bay region and our rental household in Livermore.

On the push back again home, I observed an SUV that moments earlier rolled off the pavement, down a steep 100 ft. slope and came to rest upside down in a meadow 50 yards from the aspect of the highway. A law enforcement officer was kneeling beside the overturned car or truck peering into the window as an ambulance arrived roaring up the street to sign up for him. So quite a few of us are heading way too quick these days and far way too numerous of us are ending up upside down, crippled inside and out.

There is no greater time to consider the initial step in your escape prepare than these days. It can be depressing and stunning how extended it really takes to actualize your departure even just after you have currently created the conclusion that you must get absent from the concrete jungle.