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| Our free range chickens and our first ripe orange in 2016 |
The number of minutes and hours in each day does not change no matter how wealthy, how important, how old or how tall we are.
No matter where we live, how many children we have, the colour of our skin, our level of education, nothing changes how much time we have in each day.
The saying "The best things in life are free" is not entirely true because the greatest gift in life is time and it is priceless.
When somebody spends time with you, or takes time to do something for you it is costing them their time that they can never recoup.
No matter what they do they can never get that time back again.
Time is the most amazing and generous gift.
I saw something recently on Instagram that said "I have never bought anything with money. Everything I have was bought with pieces of time I sold from my life to a job that will never have paid enough when my time is up".
Time is this uber valuable commodity that we have limited access to, who knows when our time will be up, and we choose what we do with it each and every day.
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| The very first trees being planted in our orchard in 2012 |
We are trying to take time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. To live in peaceful dwellings, creating an undisturbed place of rest, sowing our seeds and letting our animals range free (paraphrased from Isaiah 32:16-20).
In hot old dusty Roma growing anything takes a lot of time, but we are certainly making progress and it is so deeply rewarding and it is a fun way to spend our time on earth.
We have helped and witnessed hundreds of trees grow, and we have seen many many hundreds die.
The sense of achievement we get when we harvest anything we have grown is overwhelming, and therefore must be shared on social media.
We eagerly await the day when we can share our produce with friends and family and when more people can come and share in this amazing place to draw near to mother earth.
The capacity to grow and eat our own food, a practice that would have been part of every Australian life until maybe a generation ago, is exhilarating.
We are learning new things, appreciating new things and witnessing new things everyday on this little journey of ours.
Like today for instance, when I went to buy a cauliflower from the supermarket and it only cost me $4, it blew my tiny little mind. For us to grow our own cauliflowers from seed takes many months and daily love and tender care and here is one for $4. If I calculated my time into the production of our half a dozen annual cauliflowers they would cost approximately ten thousands dollars!! If I had never grown a cauliflower it would not be possible to recognise how insanely cheap this was.
Time is a marvelous thing.
Don't take time for granted.
Time spells love.
Don't sell your time too cheaply.
When you say yes to something, you are saying no to something, or someone, else.
Time is limited.
Love is all that matters.
Time waits for no one.
Enjoy your time.
Recognise the true value of time.
I would love to hear your thoughts on time.
Much love
Justine x
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