Faith
This is the Camp that God Built
Jenny Svetec on Numbers 5, a Hebrew word that means to move in permanently rather than rent, and what was actually waiting for the people who got sent outside.
Jenny Svetec
Contributing writer · Canada
A teacher and professional writer who farmed organically with her husband Paul in Ontario. She writes on the Hebrew scriptures and what they ask of the people who read them.
Faith
An empty lampstand looks exactly like a full one until the room goes dark
God gave Moses the dimensions of a tent and specified the oil for its lamps. Three thousand years later the question the tent was asking is still the only one that matters: where does your light come from?
Work & money
In 2008 God asked us to fallow the entire farm, and the neighbours queued up the lane to rent it
A farmer in Ontario on the four things he learned about running land: follow the sower, give generously, take the year of rest, and when it all goes wrong, keep asking questions until you get an answer.