Help through the doubting periods

On grey days, I think: what else would I do, if I stopped heading in the direction of my dream, this ecovillage?

Would I go back to school teaching or accounting? Would that make me smile and bound out of bed each morning? -> no.

Would I go forward to say become a florist, a chef, a doctor -> no. Well, what then?

I would do what I am doing right now, progressing this ecovillage, tweaking up all the little bits and pieces that turn up each day. There is no more perfect journey in life for me than this – it is this little exercise that fans up proof and faith to continue and I am grateful to Dave for loving and feeding me while I continue on this merry path.

“To have faith means to dare to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible; it is the paradoxical hope to expect the Messiah every day, yet not to lose heart when s/he has not come at the appointed hour. This hope is not passive and it is not patient; on the contrary, it is impatient and active, looking for every possibility of action within the realm of real possibilities. Least of all it is passive as far as the growth and liberation of one’s own person are concerned....” Erich Fromm.

We have 499 names on the SCEV database. In another day or two we will hit the big five-oh-oh.

500 people interested in keeping an eye on the project! I wonder how many of these people will clamour to live in this ecovillage. I wonder what hopes and dreams we will all realise here..