I have found more hope in the past 3 days than I have ever experienced in my whole life. All the things that I have envisioned Wilberforce Village is showing me that I have been on the right track all along since almost 50 years ago when I first started dreaming of living in or starting an intentional community.

Ever since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 to be “global health emergence” in March 2020, the awareness of the emperor’s lack of clothing really began. Even people who previously were trusting the mainstream media, big pharma, doctors in general, and the power of voting for our representatives, started waking up. Especially people who were directly affected by the Covid-19 vaccine mandates and the vaccine lies perpetuated by people like Dr. Fauci, Trump (with his warp speed project) and Biden–started being bold and brave and started sharing the truth.

This and so much more was encouraging to me–the fact that people were waking up to things I knew about almost 50 years ago when Cliff Mikkelson, who had fortuitously been introduced to conspiracy facts by Quincy John Workman, shared these things with me. People have criticized me, ostracized me, rejected me, shunned me and fired me because of my views.

Yet something was missing. It seemed like the influencers believed that electing the right officials would solve the problems we faced. I was glad to see protests and increasing numbers of alternative media outlets and journalists who were telling the truth.

I saw people wanting to create parallel societies and just getting out of the system. There was a general spiritual movement in that area, but what was discouraging was that my passions–following Jesus in the Christian Universalist way and veganism and living in an off grid, close to nature intentional community–were not being expressed by the influencers–at least in this combination–as solutions.

But why I feel hopeful now is because I am seeing the following:

Russel Brandt is vegan and is following Jesus. He also wants to see parallel societies created and I’m pretty sure intentional communities are something he would totally support.

Paul Kingsworth who now follows Jesus in the Orthodox Christian way, says: “I have written all my life about the human connection to place and nature, about what culture means, about spiritual life, and about what happens when these things – human necessities all – begin to fracture. It is fracturing now, and the rise of this kind of hard right, ethnocentric, authoritarian politics is one inevitable result. It claims to offer a political response to the issues I write about, but the offer is tainted, and it leads nowhere good.”

This video is a conversation between Paul Kingsworth and Jonathan Pageau which really describes the situation civilization is in. The only topic not mentioned is how eating animals is not caring for life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqDWGdJJx1Y

I am encouraged by the Bruderhof community and how they are dedicating their lives to following Jesus. They provide so many great videos which answer questions about how and why they live the way they do which have given me more hope than ever that I can start a community that is radical in many ways, yet could attract people who sincerely desire to follow Jesus teachings which include, I believe, a vegan lifestyle.

I continue to be inspired by Christian Universalists who prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is saving everything and everyone through Jesus and that we really will all live in harmony–including the animals.

The concept that we can create God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven–seems real to me. Many will scoff at this, even though the famous Lord’s Prayer says it clearly, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

I feel hopeful because even though I had a very disappointing experience with someone who showed so much promise as helping me create Wilberforce Village, I bounced back quickly after going through a brief period of grieving. Mostly I was grateful that I was able to see our incompatibility before he even came to visit.

I feel hopeful because someone like Robert Kennedy, Jr. is running for president, and many people support him. I know that having a good president doesn’t solve all of our problems, but it certainly can help our country stop doing things like having endless wars. I disagree with Trump on many things, and I even supported him at one time. But one thing I am very grateful to him for is that he kept us out of foreign wars and secured our borders.

I feel hopeful because I have land, a common house, many materials, regular work so I can pay to get more infrastructure like a rain water system and getting solar power. I have a wonderful family with whom I have gone through very difficult times, yet emerged through all the conflicts with connections that I cherish. This includes 4 beautiful grandchildren on earth, and one in heaven.

I feel hopeful because I have 69 (soon to be 70 in August) years of experience in this life that have taught me so much. I can thank God for instilling in me an insatiable desire to learn things outside of society’s norms and strength to do things that make it hard for me to belong anywhere. Being a Christian Universalist vegan who wants to create and live in a super simple, in harmony with the earth community where we follow Jesus teachings, especially the sermon on the mount, makes a lonely path. Yet as I continuously learn to accept where others are yet forge this path guided by Jesus as much as I can discern, I feel at peace.

I feel hopeful because almost every day before I get out of bed I look back at my life, sometimes just the day before, and see the miraculous unfolding of my life which if not guided by a good God, seems impossible to have happened. In gratitude, I acknowledge Jesus and how he has been with me even when I left him. I then recall a trauma, recent or long past, and grieve while I let Jesus comfort me. I ask him where he was at in the situation, and what he wants me to know. Almost always I hear wise, consoling words. The whole experience leaves me in a meditative space where I joyfully pray for friends, family, people who have rejected me, for the world’s suffering, and for the future Wilberforce Village.

Even though discouragement tries to overtake me at times, I am able to rise above because I focus on Jesus and my hope that he is making a way for me to realize my dreams–even though the journey has been so long and arduous. I believe that everything that has happened to me up to this point is preparing me to be a wise leader which I must be in order to do what needs to be done. A leader who can facilitate the empowering of everyone who sincerely desires to join me in my efforts, not one who has power over, but rather power with.

Thanks for reading why I am hopeful. I appreciate your time. I actually wrote this about a month ago, but it never got finished. I had totally forgotten about the post and just found it. I’m glad I did!

Oh and I feel hopeful because movies like this are coming out!