My favorite room

Each one of us has a favorite room in our home that makes us feel more comfortable. The living room is where we can entertain and watch television. The bedroom is where we can relax and enjoy a good night's sleep.

The kitchen is where we cook our food and where a lot of us gather and converse. I would say the kitchen is the love center of the home. The bathroom is the room where we can close and lock the door to have our privacy. The bathroom is where we go to eliminate, rejuvenate and cleanse our bodies.

The bathroom was my favorite room in my home. As a single parent coming home after long and stressful days at work, with my young children waiting for me and having to cook dinner, I would retreat to the bathroom first. It was there, behind the closed door, that I would take some time to be with myself to unwind my frazzled nerves. I would think, regroup and prepare myself for what I called "Second Shift", my duties as "mommy."  The 15 - 20 minutes spent in my bathroom were my peace and serenity.

As time moved on the children grew up and away. I no longer needed to escape to my bathroom. I now had any room in my home to myself. However, the silence in my house was loud and almost unbearable. I would go sit outside to distract myself from the great loud silence in my home. I became uneasy and no longer comfortable in my home. The house in which I had kept every room so beautiful and clean, was no longer home. I now had no favorite room. I was not at peace. 

The silence that was so loud, it became my constant companion. I would pray and cry myself through this lonely, loud silence, but later began to appreciate its constant existence. I remembered the words of God, "Be Still and know that I am God." (Psalms 46:10).  I forgot I knew that the silence is what I needed. The silence and I became friends. I take it everywhere I go. It talks with me, inspires me, comforts me and pampers me.

Now my favorite room is inside of me. For inside of me are housed all the rooms that I need to find, comfort, rest, love, conversation, peace and serenity.

Rhonda Hudson-Williams is an Ohio Resident who enjoys writing inspirational and thought-provoking articles.