In my quiet times with the Lord, sometimes he takes me on adventures in the spirit. While I was a young single mom raising three children, I saw myself in the spirit as a “pioneer” woman living on a tropical island and surviving there. The island was something like what the Swiss Family Robinson family lived on, tropical and teeming with jungle life. Just like them, I have an elaborate tree house, with ladders up, pulleys for water to go up and down, a lower terrace for dining, an upper terrace for sleeping. It is all quite nice.
But then, one by one, each one of my children builds themselves a dugout canoe from one of the trees, makes a sail, and they sail away, off to seek their own fortune.