Peace and Quiet…and Rest
Our friends let us use their cabin near Mio, MI a couple of weeks ago. I was a bit rattled and really looked forward to a few days of retreat.
It was a four hour drive, so hubby and I listened to Kurt Eichenwald’s book, “A Conspiracy of Fools,” about the Enron scandal. Verrry interesting…
We finally arrived, and when we opened the door, we were greeted by an expansive great room with windows looking out through trees onto a rolling, verdant golf course. The whole upstairs was great room, except for the half bath and the master suite off the hallway to our right. The warm cabin-in-the-woods decor welcomed and set us at ease immediately.
Hubby had suggested we could stop by a national forest on our way in, famous for its first stand trees. Most everywhere you’ll see trees, but first stand means the original trees. Real old…and I understand that the forest floor hardly has any undergrowth or if you will, overgrowth…I noticed weeds, bushes, grasses everywhere under trees as we sped past, and thought it’d be nice to be somewhere with trees that didn’t have lots of yucky growth under them.
However, I’m glad we didn’t go there, because we were tired by the time we arrived at the cabin, and we were glad for daylight by which to acclimate ourselves to the house.
It’s a log home, but there’s nothing “cabin-y” about the place. It’s more like a lodge. The walls are all 3-D debarked log and it is a two storied affair, rustic, but expensive and a complete household. The thing I really loved was the open look onto the back area, afforded by a wall of windows. Lots of light…my favorite thing. Hubby and I sat at either of the dining tables and just read for hours. He went outside and sat on the back porch a lot. I was catching up on my Bible study and thinking and praying until I’d feel the tension from concentrating so hard, then I’d take a break and read my Ann Perry novel. Every day was absolute quiet all day. In the evenings we watched movies from their collection, which included some pretty good stuff.
Quiet, beauty, Bible study, time for thought, no responsibilities, reading for fun, good movies and good food, including some taste-bud kissing Amish strawberry rhubarb pie… Yepper, we got rested.
Thank you, Lord, for blessing our friends and for their kind hearts and generosity.