This week for the first time in over 3 years I am going to a place that holds my GREATEST childhood memories.  Our family cabin in Big Falls, MN.  By our family I mean the Bauer clan.  This cabin was built by my grandfather when my Dad was around 5 I think.  It is smack dab in the middle of some of the prettiest forest you will ever see!

It’s changed some over the years.  It didn’t have electricity until I was around 15.  It didn’t have running water until about 2 years ago, and it’s now red instead of brown and it has a new roof.  Not bad for a cabin that’s been around for 50 years.  But one thing hasn’t changed and that is my memories of a time when life was carefree and fun.

This week my goal is to reclaim that carefree feeling.  I’ll be going with my Grandma, my cousin and my aunt.  I’m really looking forward to my time with them.  I’m looking forward to tooling around in the woods on the 4 wheeler.  I’m super excited about the pictures that are waiting to be taken with my digital camera of the surrounding beauty.  I hope to see a bear.  Some deer and a fox.  A Lumberjack and a chickadee and a blue jay, and finches (those are birds).

This is a real opportunity as well to just CHILL.  No agenda.  Lots of laughing. A good glass of wine.  Hot coffee.  Spam.  Pancakes.  Washing the dishes that have been in the cabinets since the cabin was first built

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.  Life doesn’t get much better than that in the natural sense.

But even more than all those great things, I really sense the Lord has something  more for me in that place.  I am anticipating some sweet time with Him in the woods.  No unnecessary noise.  Just me, just Him.  How sweet!