They Rescued Their Marriage in an RV: Eli and Kelly Pyke of The Far Green Country – Episode 25

We leave you with this thought:

In the first Far Green Country film, Kelly quotes John Eldredge when he says,

“We have grown dull toward this world in which we live in. We have forgotten that it is not normal or scientific in any sense of the word. It is fantastic. It is fairytale through and through. At what point did we lose our wonder at it all? Even so, once in a while, something will come along and shock us right out of our dullness and resignation. We come around a corner and there before us is a peacock, a stag with horns as big as he. Perhaps we come upon a waterfall and the clouds have made a rainbow in a circle around the sun, and for a moment we realize that we were born into a world as astonishing as any fairytale.”

That is the call, right, the never-ending journey of this life–to be so present, so completely grounded in the one and only moment that truly exists, now–that we see the astonishing wonder of even our simplest experiences?

For so many of us, myself included, it does take a shock to wake up to the wonder of it all, to the reality of this world that’s as astonishing as any fairytale. For me, it was a looming expiration date placed upon me by doctors and diagnoses. For Kelly and Eli, it seems it was the disillusionment of adulthood, parenthood, and marriage, precipitated by repeated traumas, struggles, and getting caught up in the drift of life through societal norms and expectations. I went to sleep. Eli and Kelly went to sleep. Something made us wake up, to realize that even though we were living, we weren’t really alive at all.

As Kelly says in their documentary, after feeling once again inspired by the words of John Eldredge, “ ‘Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive.’ What can I say?” she goes on. “I come alive on the road and in beautiful places, and at this point in my journey I needed to come back to life.”

Have you been drifting through life, asleep to the callings of your soul and the fantastic fairytale that it all is? Are you drifting through the dullness and resignation of what life should be, what we’re modeled to repeat by the world around us? What will it take for you to come back to life, to shock you out of that dullness and resignation, allowing you to see what life could be and move toward it?

Eli and Kelly put something in their own path to do just that when they scrounged together $15,000 dollars to buy a motorhome and rearranged their life so that they could get out and do what it took to wake them up to the life they wanted to live. They made it happen, and continue to do so today, with every choice they make in the direction of their one, unique path in this life with intentionality. You can too. As Kelly and Eli have shown us, with every choice you make, you’re making your life, whether you’re asleep to those choices or not.

May you come alive today, friends! May you be shocked out of any dull and resigned drift and into the astonishing, fantastic, fairytale that your life truly is. May you get still and quiet enough to hear the unique callings of the soul within you and choose to step toward them. AND with each alive, awakened step, may you come upon and come closer to the peacocks, the stags, the waterfalls that are meant just for you. After all, you’ve got just this One Life, what better day to  Live It! than today?