Months Offline: Building More Than Property

Trading screen time for build time. Facing the challenge to upgrade my mind.

After three months of silence, I have finally tonight powered up my laptop. Today, that small, familiar sound marks a different rhythm of life.

For months now many days have been stimulated not by screens or notifications, but by sawdust, sketches, soil & creating structures. It’s been a season of hands-on creativity — of shaping ideas into something tangible. Designing & building our property in Lumsden. The time has been one of pulling me fully into the present, but also it has been a time of facing what has not previously worked in my life.

There’s no “undo” button when you’re working with timber & terrain; driving machines & tools. There is no undo button on our past either. But now it is time to forget about undoing, & to for us expand our horizons.

For the past six months we have been landscaping our property & putting buildings into place, creating decks, planting trees, & making our place in Lumsden functional. Lines drawn on paper turned into posts in the ground. Empty space became dirt-filled, carparks, little mini-forests & rooms we are setting up with purpose. The past six months have been a huge physical challenge; an endurance test, a demanding time, & days we have seen our imagination & to-do lists come to life. We’ve been making concrete & doing almost every other type of building challenge..

There’s a unique satisfaction in this kind of work. But now it’s time to step back into the communicational world; reaching out to others & walking with inspiration to grow. Time away has sharpened my focus & stripped away some of the noise. I now return with renewed appreciation for life & limitless thinking. Stepping back from the, tactile reality of physical building, fully realising noone can truly & fully thrive dedicating every day to working behind the tools..

The past weeks haven’t just been about constructing a property. It’s been a rediscovering process; time to build more patience & presence. Now, returning to the keyboard, there’s a quiet sense that whatever comes next will be shaped by creative hands, but more importantly - a spirit that is happy to walk in the light of God…where there everything is possible.

In recent months it wasn’t just the land that was transformed—it was the way I think, create, & measure what truly matters.