The smell of earth...

Our house began officially today when the digging crew arrived with a giant machine. Several hours later they have created a deep hole in the earth marked out by spraypaint and posts. Its hard to imagine that the house will exist atop all this... a sort of miracle.

But the earth smelled clean and fresh, the stuff of new beginnings!

Nicholas

Wow...today has arrived...at last...

We first saw this earth, this land in April of 2011, came back to visit it in October of 2011, put a deposit on it later that month and then began working on a plan with a wonderfully creative builder/designer for the past 18 months.

And now, it begins to take shape, off the paper, into form.

Dreams look like this, all twist and turns, momentary setbacks and delays...and then, they finally come into form...if we remember to stay constant, to stay vigilant.

We closed on our mortgage yesterday, we broke ground in sunshine and 70 degree, late October, weather today, the footings will be poured tomorrow and, hopefully the framing will begin next week. 

It depends on the weather...and Hurricane Sandy may be heading our way..
It depends on things we have no control over...
Funny that.

I am reminded in all of this, and in this season, that I only control my response to things...not the things themselves.

What a beautiful sight, this shifting of the actual earth to make room for us to build a place of beauty and grace, a place where healing and creativity will be extended to all we are blessed to welcome.

I guess it wasn't just earth that I was aware of being on the move today...
I think I knew, without a doubt, that actually...Heaven and Earth brought us to this moment in our lives.

Gratitude is my constant companion this night.

Judy