Cabin Induced Questions and Clips

Do people who live on lakes or on the coast, have cabins on the prairies?  Cabins they can go to on the weekends and plant gardens for fun?  Where they can drive tractors and pull their kids on wagons behind them?  Where they can get away from the daily grind of being out on a boat and fishing?

Or is that as silly as it sounds?

What brings rest?  Is it sleep?  Is it nothing?  Is it less?  Is it change?  Is relative?

For the past couple months we’ve been given a chance to experience rest.  Personal rest.  Rest as family.  Rest with friends.  Rest in action.  Right now we have the opportunity to experience rest as thousands of others have chosen to experience it…what we’ll call cabin rest.

It is strange to define and explain its popularity.  But here are some clips of rest at the cabin for us which might give better insight:

Digging epic holes in the sand and the kids filling them with water at the beach.

Fishing while chatting with Tim.

Mowing the lawn.

Walking or boating to get ice cream and sitting near the water as we polish them off.

Chasing minnows and studying the ones Aunt Hailey caught.

Cooking beef on a bun (with a crockpot).

Having brunch with four generations of family; ages ranging from 4 weeks to 4343 weeks old.

Canoeing kid cargo to and from the beach and cabin, with and against the wind.

Losing to Grammie playing Settlers on the deck.

Eating bannock and chatting around the fire with Tim and Erika.

Poutine and onion rings on the beach.

Couch and carpet and grass and hammock and bed wrestling with Ev.

Reading by candle light.

Reading on the beach.

Reading by the fire.

Cooking all three meals on the bbq while the power was out.

Playing beanbags in the backyard with Grammie and the kids.

And watching the sunset over the lake.

There is something to be said about resting with others.  Like most things we tend to personally customize our rest to suit ourselves, but resting in community refreshes the soul.  We are blessed to rest with some of our family and friends and look forward sharing more of it with you.