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Rebekah Lyons: What’s Keeping You From Your Passion?

Looking across the front yard of our new country home, it became clear—we’d underestimated what managing a sprawling piece of Tennessee property might require. We loved the idea of rolling hills and a view, but when spring swept in with near-daily rain, moving a little further out came with a list of outside chores that never seemed to end. On my first Saturday home after two weekends of travel, I woke early. I had forty-eight hours to reconnect with Gabe and our kids, and to help out with what