Choosing Home by Carolyne Aarsen
Author:Carolyne Aarsen [Aarsen, Carolyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Misty Ridge Publishing
Published: 2019-12-11T06:00:00+00:00
Eight
Looking good, Ben thought, tugging on the shingles he had replaced in the pouring rain yesterday. He sent a quick glance over the rest of the roof and frowned. Though the roof was leak-proof for now, the shingles on this side would have to be replaced in the next year.
He brushed the grit from the shingles off his knees and pushed himself to his feet. As he stood, the mournful wail of the train’s horn echoing across the valley caught his attention. He looked over in time to see the train rumbling through the first crossing at the edge of town, the wheels sending out an insistent rhythm that had become familiar to him the past days.
From there his eyes drifted up, as they always did, to the hills beyond the tracks and from there to the large mountain overlooking town where the ski resort was located. Shannon had mentioned that she and her sisters used to snowboard every winter on the mountain with their friends. This, too, was part of the rhythm of the town.
He felt a small twinge of jealousy at the connections Shannon had forged here. The people who were part of her present and past.
Ben’s father had worked for a large international corporation that moved him every two or three years to various parts of North America, including one stint overseas in Sweden.
As a result, Ben and Arthur had always been making new friends, establishing new connections. Home, family and community abided wherever his parents and his brother lived.
When his father died, his mother returned to Toronto. After she lost her job there, she’d moved them all back to Ottawa where she had grown up.
When Ben graduated from high school he’d moved back to Toronto for university and med school. Then his mother, alone after Arthur moved out of the house, had asked him to come to Ottawa. Which he had. Then he’d met Saskia, who had moved there from Yellowknife to find a better life.
He let memories of Saskia slip into his mind, thinking, again, of what he and Shannon had spoken of last night. When she’d told him that it wasn’t his fault Saskia had died; when she’d said that it was Saskia’s choices that had led to her death, not his, he’d felt the first stirrings of relief. Of a weight slipping off his shoulders.
He had tried to fight it, thinking that somehow it wasn’t right to release the burden he’d been carrying.
He thought back to the passage his mother read after dinner the other day. From Matthew. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. The part of the passage that resonated the most was, I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
The Bible passage stole into his mind and reinforced what Shannon had told him. Rest for a weary soul. Such an elusive thing for him the past few years.
Then he looked around at the town again.
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