Isn’t it truly amazing that it only takes a twinkle of clear lights strung around a fir tree to ignite wonder in the eyes and hearts of our children and grandchildren? Baking sugar cookies around the breakfast table, wondering if every light up in the sky is Santa’s sleigh approaching, a single snowflake falling to the ground… It must be a blizzard!
The way little ones think inspires us all to get lost in the season and let our imaginations take us to places we haven’t visited since we were their age too.
Don’t you wish we could all be so enamored with the simple things? If only we could bottle that wonder up and carry it in our pockets for a lifetime. If only we could pull it out on days when we are all too sure that we are grown and life is different now.
With mortgages, crops to tend and mouths to feed, we may not always be able to hang on to that childlike spark that invites us to get lost in the spirit of the season, but as farmers, we know that the love of the little things like this… hearth and home, hand to plow, watching hard work turn into beauty…
It all evokes the same kind of simplistic wonder that we never want to live without. It is a wonder that lasts far beyond Christmastime.
Our farms are a part of us. They are a living, breathing thing. They are a part of our family and securing that wonder for generations and generations to come is all a special part of growing something spectacular.
This Christmas, invest in legacy and ensure that your family farm can provide wonder, joy and comfort in ways that you may never even dream.
Just think, someday, your great-great-great-great-grandson may be sitting around this very table, walking the very same dirt, plucking apples off the very same tree that you planted the year you brought your own son home from the hospital. That is a powerful thing. That is legacy.
It is a gift not only to those to come…
But an unwrapping of wonder, that deep-down, surety of knowing that your love, your land and your family’s roots live on forever.
