Peace… the kind of peace when you feel at ease… content.
This morning the world is a little more peaceful. The windows are open and the birds are singing. For some reason all of the dogs in the neighborhood are not barking. Maybe it is the light mist that has fallen. Maybe it has changed their attitude on life as it has changed mine.
The real reason for the peaceful day… no cable TV… no internet… and no home phone. It is absolutely quiet. The media is missing today… all of them… they are not missed… just missing.
There is peace right here. There is no need to be sitting on a mountaintop or in some other exotic locale. It’s right here. It is a state of mind. Those gentle waves lapping against the side of a boat and the red cliffs of Lake Powell are not required for peace today.
Right now the newspaper is laying in the front yard with the dew-covered plastic protecting it. No large, bold headlines garnering my attention. The morning talk shows are not espousing their ideas in this house. There are no pop-ups on this computer screen, because it is not connected to the internet. It is just this white computer screen and the little black letters that are flying across the screen as I type.
I am winning this morning. I am winning. My thoughts are my own… I am not being fed the thoughts of someone who cannot find peace in anything they do. They probably need drugs to find peace… I know they don’t find peace in God.
Ahh, life is good.
But... a headache is starting to creep in now… I am beginning to realize that the coffee beans I bought the other day are de-caf… no wonder it is peaceful.
If you are reading this… then you will know that the cable that creeps into this house is alive again… like a snake it is slithering through the walls and attacking my peace… but like the caffeine that is lacking in my cup today… I am somewhat addicted to the venom that the snake brings. After all I do pay for the snake to bring the venom in. But, for now I am beating the habit. I am also looking forward to calling the cable company and demanding some money back for the lack of service… which also brings me peace… that thought makes me smile… it’s a win-win situation.
3 comments:
Well written words. How true those words are. So do we have the will to keep the peace and not turn on the computer and cable TV? What is it that keeps us from not selecting that option. Perhaps I'll try an hour a day without. Rest in the peace and hear the quiet.
I'll let you know if I'm able to do that.
What Joe was really trying to say was, "Martha's at work, and I have the whole house to myself."
Oh how true! There is a strange addiction to media of all sorts... as I was watching a very intense movie with Jake on "Valentine's Day" no less, I started to wonder why we are so in to watching TV and movies about all of the bad things that might someday happen to us... wish we had seen Marley & Me at the Dollar movies instead..
Dad, surely this does not mean you don't have a Lake Powell trip on the horizon though... :-)
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