March 11, 2011: Be the Peace

Hola, All! The song with the words 'be the peace you want to see' runs through my mind fairly often. Wednesday I had an 'opportunity' to put these words into practice. I usually walk to the rec center to work out around 6:50am, but this time I didn't leave until 7:10am. I also took a little bit of a different route, in that I went out the front door instead of the back. This makes my walk to the rec center a little longer. As soon as I walked out of the door, I asked the angels to protect me and surround me with their love. As I was walking west on Elizabeth Dr, I saw a blond woman, maybe in her late 20's walk out of a house wearing a short nightgown, a long white bathrobe, and nothing on her feet. I found it strange that she was barefoot because it was in the 40's, and I was bundled like a wooly bear. As I walked by her, she asked for my help, so I stopped to see what she wanted. She was holding a cell phone that didn't appear to be turned on. She said that her boyfriend was abusing her and she wanted to call 911. Just then the boyfriend, a nice-looking man in his early 30's, dressed for the day, walked out and just started droppping the f-bomb. She and I were on the sidewalk and he basically stayed near the house. He must have heard what she said about him because he loudly said that he never touched her, which I could see was true. I put my hand on her shoulder and looked into her eyes; she was clearly drunk or on drugs, which he also told me. I tried to let him know with my eyes that I didn't believe that he had hurt her, but I think he was really scared that she would call the cops and he would be arrested for something that he didn't do. All the time that he is talking, if that is what one calls it when one's vocabulary is limited to the f-bomb, I was calming talking to the woman in a low voice. She finally admitted that he had not hurt her, and then he left. I encouraged her to go back inside and I continued on my way. All this probably didn't take 3 minutes, but as calm as I was around them, I was shaking as I walked away. I was so thankful that the angels, God, the Holy Spirit, some being, was guiding me because I was so calm in the midst of this drama, and I didn't become a part of the drama. Even now as I write this, I am getting a little shaky reliving it. But, it showed me that I could be the peace that I want to see in this world.
Be the peace that you want to see,
Dawnie