The holiday season has arrived. The owners of cottages are busy making ready their alternative dwelling places for the summer away from their homes. Trailer parks are waiting for the regular and new customers. Mobile trailers have already begun travelling around here and there searching for beautiful sites in which to stay. With the economic prosperity of Saskatchewan, the lowest unemployment rate in the country and the highest ever working population, the people of Saskatchewan are getting busier than ever before enjoying their holidays. I also look forward to taking a vacation during the month of July. UC Chimes wishes that everyone has wonderful and safe holidays during this summer.
It's called hopeless when there is no hope. Helpless and meaningless are the same when there are no help or meaning when they are needed. Journeying toward a vacation brings the hope to have a good and refreshing time.
It is also expected to have found a meaning when the vacation is over. That is the reason why a vacation always makes people excited, hopeful and meaningful. Unlike other species we human beings are travelling around not only just for fulfilling basic human desires but also searching for a new meaning and purpose of life. If you find a new meaning and purpose of your life during the time of holidays, then the vacation will be a more joyful and happier time in your life.
We all wonder why God took a rest after finishing the work of creation instead of finding another job. "And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it." (Genesis 2:2-3a). Taking a time off from work, a vacation, seems to be God's will for the people who have God's image in their hearts. In spite of further theological explanation of God's rest, the Sabbath, one clear point is that we human beings need a time off from work so that we may be refreshed, renewed and revitalized in order to begin and start again our work with new energy, ideas and enthusiasm. So vacations always include a call or vocation for the next step of life's journey.
Before taking my vacation, I would like to say thank you to the Observer for the space for the weekly column of UC Chimes and to the readers of this column. Especially I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Doug and Marion who have reviewed my editorial work thoughtfully and faithfully. Since last September not even one single week has been missed by the UC Chimes team. UC Chimes wishes and prays that every reader will have a wonderful and healthy summer and have good holidays. When the vacation is ended and you have found a new call or vocation, then your rest will become the source of energy and power to move forward to open a new chapter of your life journey. I hope to meet you again in September. Thank you everyone and God bless.
