Summer vacation is so long awaited and passes so quickly! It is designed to restore lost energy, bring joy and new experiences. However, in some cases, on the contrary, fatigue, disappointment, and new sins are acquired.
What should be the rest
You can’t be a bummer, but working seven days a week is also impossible. A man must rest. Even household appliances created by man are not without rest. So the refrigerator should be turned off periodically so as not to burn out. A change of work and rest is a natural mode for all living things on Earth.
Rest should be meaningfully useful. Sometimes, to relax, you just need to change the main field of activity. Now many are busy with work that does not bring satisfaction, and they need rest like air. And where there is hard physical labor, it is also impossible to do without relaxation for a long time.
A constantly working person commits a sin, just as he does not work at all! God advised man to rest and not overload his smaller brothers. The earth also needs rest. Therefore, it is recommended that one and the same plot of land not be sown for two years in a row, but given a rest. They say that at this time she walks under steam. It is believed that rested land will bring the crop twice as much.
Summer rest
Summer - a couple of vacations and an Orthodox person encounters posts at this time (Uspensky, Petrovsky). It can be difficult to combine the canons of Orthodoxy and bodily rest. In fact, during this period, travelers have some leniency in fasting. They can consume everything that they are offered in hotels. After all, you will not delve into what you paid for, often not small ones.
A person traveling on vacation is at risk. He is inclined to behave worse than at home. For a whole year he has been saving money for this purpose and considers he has the right to lead a carefree life without denying anything to himself. Under these conditions, a breeding ground for a number of sins arises. Everything that interests modern youth on vacation is the beach, girls, alcoholic drinks. Accordingly, there are drunkenness, idleness, fornication, etc. A person, initially escaping from the familiar environment and having extra money in his pocket, is likely to return home with a weakened soul.
It would not be bad that he would not forget about books on vacation. Vacation is the time when you can read: at the station, at the airport, on the plane or train. During working hours, he is unlikely to succeed. On vacation, you need to spend less time on gadgets. They enslave us on ordinary days and do not give in to them during the rest.
Travel opens up new facets in man. This is an excellent opportunity to broaden one's horizons: new places, traditions, and sights are new. On vacation, a city man definitely needs to improve his health by substituting his mortal body under the sun.
Before you engage in any kind of extreme tourism, you need to take a blessing on a trip from the clergyman. Moreover, careful preparation for this and a good physical shape is needed. It is necessary to take care of yourself, because senseless death is the worst option for death.
It is a city man who is accustomed to physical inactivity and staring at a computer monitor all year round who needs an active rest: hiking in the mountains, into the forest, boat trips, etc. He needs to exert himself to go beyond himself, and vacation is a great time for this. It will be more correct to do what the hard worker lacks in the usual period: physical activity, enrichment with spiritual food, or intellectual pursuits.
