2022 - The Rains Came

On the day the family took occupation of the farm, the 15th of December 2022, it rained. Not a drizzle, but torrents. The land was very dry, it was not the rainy season, yet the heavens opened. Can anyone explain that?

By June 2023, the farm’s dam, long dried up and half-forgotten, swelled until its wall gave way. The workers whispered to each other, almost in awe: “Since the Johannes family has come, it’s raining!”

In June 2024, after the dam wall was repaired, the miracle repeated. From near-empty, within a week, it was overflowing. Abundance where scarcity once ruled.

It was as though the land itself had been waiting. As though the first rejection; “too hot, too dry, no water” had always been the prelude to this moment. Fear had said, no way. Providence contradicted undeniably.

For the family, this was no accident. This was confirmation that the walk of surrender, marked not by strategy or wisdom, would be the foundation of the future.