catapult magazine

Items tagged Vacation

• Vacation as pilgrimage

  A biennial journey to France renews a wife?s spirit.

• The intentional tourist

  On the nature and purpose of obedient vacationing.

• Returning to the lake

  A child?s wonder inspires the memory of fascination.

• Top Ten re: places

  But not just any place?

• Paradise wanted?

  Summer vacations past provoke reflection on a love-hate relationship with ‘perfect’ places.

• Bay window

  Home is where the beach is...for now at least.
  

• Grace-pitality

  A rambling vacation yields delight, generosity and gratitude.

• Waiting, on the lake

  Lessons from a venerable pair of birch trees on Pleasant Lake.

• Ten things you can do to make your family vacation more community-building

  A list, counter-intuitive for some, on how to hit the road together.

• When every day is Saturday

  No more teachers, no more books, no more...peace and quiet? Regular routines? Freedom?

• Break on through to the other side

  On learning to take a break without fear.

• A supposedly not-fun thing I can’t wait to do again

  On what came after growing up as an indoor girl.

• Holy rest

  Dispelling the myth of a works-based salvation.

• Baptized in humanity

  Realizations among the clash of cultures on a Miami vacation.

• An American question

  Identifying cultural differences for expectations of the good life.

• The tasting room

  Savoring the memory of unexpected hospitality.

• Summer home

  A reflection on the powerful hold a cottage can have on our hearts.