Vacation Day 9 – Wonderful Peace

I turned on the TV and turned it up loud. It is too quiet in the apartment this morning! I don’t like being alone. Yesterday my mom left on West Jet with Dana, my daughter. Now with an empty place – except for mountains of boxes – it is too quite. I discovered yesterday that I can watch TV by ‘listening’ as I work in another room… Old Black & White movies are the best.

The quietness is broken from time to time with mom’s friends trying to call her. Last week she mailed her change of address cards out and now people are calling. It is fun to talk with them all. Some I have not heard from for many, many years.

The quietness is good however… the wonderful peace that comes as I listen to it – is just simply wonderful. The Bible describes the ‘peace that passes all understanding…’. My ‘peace’ today seems to be that kind of peace. It doesn’t make sense to be all alone and then still sense a peace – but I do.

Today I am dealing with the final clean up of cupboards and storage rooms. I keep running across things that are from my family and my past. I sit down and read and sort and think… get up – get up – get going – IT HAS TO GET DONE.

Yesterday it was a turmoil or sorting I made a huge decision and simply walked the stuff out to the huge garbage bin. I placed lots in the bin. Each time I unloaded the stuff that is no longer needed - sweet peace came over me. It was motivation to go back to the 9th floor apartment and get another load.

Each time I get on the elevator to do more – mom’s friends want to talk to me. What a friendly place to live… no wonder mom liked it here. Come on get going… get going… Just a few more trips to complete it all.

There is peace – wonderful peace. And the part that is so wonderful – I am doing this work with my mom alive. I met a couple on the elevator as well. Their loved one had passed away and they were having to deal with all the stuff in a sadness that covered them completely. I am blessed – so blessed.

I can’t write more… got to get more done – today is the last day.

BTW – Dana – how can I eat any of the food in the refrigerator – you packed all the pots and pans. Necessity is the mother of invention – I did a small piece of fish in a roasting pan… and creamed corn in a cereal bowl.

~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~