growing up through troubles and difficulties

Oh God we really like this growing up

with you - & that's the bit that is the best!

And we don't want to shirk the showing up

if you ask us to be here, as a test,

or as a job that you gave us to do.

To learn to trust you well, and too obey,

and live your life out here, that your kids who

we're made by you - & have your DNA

somehow, because you are their father too

(that's what I draw from "in your image made"),

might catch a whiff, and somehow turn to you,

(or reach out in the darkness of their shade)

and find you, as you're hoping that they will.

And we are hoping that as well, you know.

We know this hide and seek happens until

we're fine'ly born and "come out", right on show,

as naked babies, in a brand new world,

Paul said the Cosmos on tip-toes awaits

this "day" of coming out, of standing bold.*

And we think that that sounds to be quite great,

so, looking forward, we'll do what we're told

by you, if you tell us, well, anything.

We know, you know us. Even when we're "cold"

and not responsive to your beckoning.

And every one-year old who'll ever smile

(responding to our love) is teaching us

how we're to copy you, show on our dial

responsiveness to your own reaching us!

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*Rom 8:18-39 

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If God is teaching us to grow skillful in living within a (complex) human culture, not for the  end of only living in this dimension of this whole world as it now is, but to display his faithfulness as a sign of the existence of his love and care that reach beyond this world to  a new creation, it may mean either focussing on the job he gave us, as a way of seeking first his rule and righteousness) and leaving to him the mechanisms of how we gain our food, clothing, shelter in any given society he sends us to. But it is not that simple… When we do, he gives us back jobs to do to contribute to the society …. And we are told by him to love our neighbours. This embroiled us in the society… but it is the only motivation worth having, as distinct from the motivation of getting enough food, clothing, and shelter...

If, using ball-park figures, an average Australian family earns enough to buy a $400K house at the cost of ~$540/week over 25 years =$700K (@5% interest). Since we are living an alternative way of life, that is committed to focussing on time for people, even at the expense of minimising our acquiring of assets and money, we won't be likely to be gaining money and asserts at a family level. Can we work with God to set up structures that could be recognised by our society, that would allow the pooling of money or assets, for when we deal with owning or renting large assets like houses. E.g. a "Friendly society"? Looking at the application fees ($110K), it may be easier to just be a group of friends who are in a "partnership" to co-own, (e.g. two families I know of, each with six children, "owned" a small bus together for a number of years, in the names of the husband of one family, and the wife of the other), and to co-operate (e.g. those two growing families lived next door to each other, and for the first year before the second family to move there could afford/ build a clothes line, they shared the hills hoist of the other… this greatly enhanced their experience of community, as I could see it, and it was not all benefit when they did get to build their own clothes line.
Can it work to share an account, or form an association, for ownership of a building, or guaranteeing the payment in rental situations? Either form a national mission order, or if not, a local association, with agreed-on rules for opting in and out? I s'pose we can simply try the first options that come to us (Both families fill in the rental application forms, families with houses that have continuing rental to ask the Real Estate Agencies to consider swapping Tennants) , then go the next step, if that doesn't work…
i.e. Only try the more complex options if the simpler ones don't work… taking this principle across to the rest of our finances, we could just continue sharing costs, until that doesn't work… Therefore,  my question is: Are there any aspects of covering our costs that appear to any of us to be not working smoothly? 

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