A Wordless Place

Fellow Labourers-

As I read this article I concur with the fact that we remember impact events in detail even many years after they have occurred. When I first went to work at the JPS Hunts Bay Power Station(July 1970) my boss to be was overseas on vacation. At that time there was only one telephone on the whole plant and it was situated in the control room which was upstairs and a good walk from the Lab and the rest of the plant. My boss was away for over two months and I would get complaints that people have been trying to reach me and I was not responding. One day I told a co-worker who became my best friend on the plant and the best man at my wedding. He was an operator in the control room. He took me to the control room showed me a list of names and beside each name a call signal. The plant used a bell system to call each employee and nobody told me about this. My signal was 2 long bells-1 short bell- 2 long bells. This was indeed a wordless place.

Sometimes we do long for a word but it seems as if we are in a wordless place. A wordless place is not always a place where there is no answer, because silence indeed can be golden. Today you may be in your wordless place, and this could possibly be the best place for you at this time. A word spoken out of turn can be devastating. At the bottom of the ocean sometimes divers are in a wordless place. But on there return trip to a world full of words their explanations of the depth of the ocean is breathtaking. Remain in your wordless place for awhile; you are in the development phase of your purpose.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart