If you watched the Back to the Frontier series, you would understand the shock of the 21st century families in discovering how they had to adapt to living without the comforts of modern convenience. The women, stripped of cosmetics and jewelry and wearing pioneer fashions, faced the great task of being homemakers, gardeners and farmers. The men had backbreaking work tilling the land, patching up their homes as well as sharing in gardening and farming. Their children had to help where needed.
Over the course of living as homesteaders, the families learned how to live in simplicity, enjoying their meals using vegetables they grew and animals they raised, cooked over fire-burning stoves. They became more resourceful, focused on working in unity. And because they were disconnected from devices, they learned to communicate better and grew closer.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 reminds us of this: “And I saw all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Life is too short to live with distractions.
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