Preparing for a Winter Storm | Quietly preparing for Thanksgiving at the Cabin

As a major winter storm approached, we prepared in the quiet, steady rhythm that life in a remote cabin of the north requires — gathering water from the community well, checking the woodpile, staining a cupboard Ron built earlier this year, and making ready for both snow and Thanksgiving.

This video invites you into that preparation — not in a rush, not with urgency, but with reverence for the silence between moments. There are no fast cuts or loud narration here, simply slow conversations and just the soft sounds of real life: brushes sweeping on wood grain, boots in snow, wind whispering through the trees. B-roll footage weaves through the quiet labor of hands, punctuated by glimpses of the storm's aftermath and the hush that follows snowfall.

Along the way, I read from a 1943 Thanksgiving journal written from the perspective of a farm wife whose sons are away at war — a letter of faith, longing, and gratitude in the face of absence. There's also a letter from one of her sons, reminding us that some voices are best heard softly.

In a world that fills every silence, we invite you to rest in it instead. Let the stillness speak.

This is the lost art of visiting.
Welcome to our table.

Ron and Liyah: The Biblical Homestead