A Weekend Away from Crazy
Into the mountains to find His quietness and rest
Playful pursuits, meandering, downtime and rest: these are the areas that the current journal prompts in the chat are addressing, and I am thankful to have carried these very ideas out in real life over the last week. I am still grieving over the loss of not only one of my dearest friends, but over the unexpected death of one of our beloved pastors as well. Add to it a variety of personal trials and the stress of an election year (the Most Important One Ever, says everyone, every four years), and I was ready for a break.
I volunteered to drive, and took two of my friends across our entire state and well into the next one, picking up yet another friend from the airport along the way. We slept the first night in a hotel, and got up early the next to head out, finally arriving to our cabin where there was no TV, no internet, and no cellular service. Waiting for us was a fire blazing in the wood stove and plenty of cozy quilts laying…