HST and SST

Coming to the farm ten years ago was like walking into another time zone.   All of my life I had been on Hurried Standard Time and suddenly I was living according to Slow Standard Time.  Living midst the creation had an affect so profound it became life changing.   One of the lessons taught by creation and learned quickly was the awareness that nothing about the created order is in a hurry.  We are the ones who hurry.  We even try to hurry the creation by wishing for the end of the day, or the weekend, or another birthday.  It does not hurry.  It goes on as it has since the days of the Garden of Eden.

It was a desire for home grown grass fed beef which put the first cow out in the pasture.  But, getting that beef on the table was not like going to the meat market of the grocery store.  It takes nine months for a calf to be born after conception.  The calf will spend the next two years of his life in the pasture grazing and growing and only after that much time is there meat for the table.  When I was planning that beef for the table, I somehow missed the part about it taking nearly three years to happen. 

Life is like that when we seek to live in step with the created order of the Creator.  Everything that comes comes in it own time, its own season.  To live inside the blessings of the creation is to spend a lot of time working and a lot of time waiting.  There are not shortcuts. There are no get rich quick schemes and no fast food.  When we begin listening to the Words of the Creator through His creation we hear a Word that tells us to slow down and live.  We hear a Word that begins to put our life in step with the order which was put in place long ago when the Creator worked and said "It was good."