Seven months after we first return from the Wet Mountain Valley our time is filled with prayers for guidance, discussions with perplexed family, trips back to Westcliffe in the name of research, and much agonizing. It seems as though we have received mostly negative input from those around us, yet our hearts just keep calling us there.
We're not without our own concerns about keeping our business alive from a remote location. Not to mention the challenges facing city people trying to relocate “off the grid”. Solar power. Cell phone service only – and expensive analog roam at that. Septic tanks and water wells. Back up generators. No neighbors for miles. One supermarket. No dentist or pharmacy. We have tried to think of every imaginable contingency but know that nothing but experience will truly inform us. With that thought in mind, we make the decision to bite the bullet and move over the coming summer.
It is a true test of faith. We still don’t have the Dallas office situation worked out. Perhaps the bigger story in our transition is the fact that, coming back from our first visit to the Wet Mountain Valley having been to a Christian family camp there, Dana had what he terms a mini-conversion. And so now, in additional to changing location, we're changing the entire direction of our business from secular to faith-based. Heaven help us.
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