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Day Five – Time for Some Reflecting! 
Today we start on a serious note. All the work that we are putting our hearts and hands into is to restore the home of Ms. O. She is 62 years old, uses a wheelchair, and was denied monetary assistance to repair her home four times. The title of her home was in her son’s name not in her’s, because he was supposed to outlive her. But that wasn’t God’s plan. Without her name on the title, she couldn’t quality for financial assistance. Thank goodness for the reasonableness of the Craven County Disaster Recovery Alliance, and their willingness to take on her case. Her son is buried across the street from her home, and she finds comfort in being able to see this place of rest.
Our own Laura Wilson penned these thoughts after she and Abby visited the grave.
“Draped through the pine trees, and brush, the lavender wisteria perfumed the drifting air.
Sun filtered through the glen, and lit the raised concrete sarcophagus adorned in weathered plastic flowers, and inscripted with family fingerprints.
The young man’s photograph gazed from the tomb to his home across the street from where his mother had kept watch.
Destroyed in silence by storm and flood, the home was now alive with sounds of workers, hammers, and saws – breaking through the past, disturbing the quiet – to open doors and windows to new life.”
Tonight, we also remembered Bob Wasik, on this, the first-year anniversary of his passing. We were privileged to share a zoom memorial with his wife Mary, other family members, and a few close friends. Bob and Mary had organized so many of our previous mission trips. They swelled our volunteer GPC roster with several friends and family members. One of our devoted cooks, Ella, is Bob’s cousin. Mary said that with all the wonderful vacations they shared together, Bob always relished the mission trips more. And we relished him right back. We all have our warm and wonderful memories of Bob that lighten our hearts and still brighten our work trips.
Lifted up by those warm memories, we pack our bags tonight and get ready for our final half-day of work tomorrow. I bid you good night with this cliffhanger…will Fletcher finish the kitchen countertop, will Jerry and Lucille finish putting down flooring in the hallway, will Laura finish the mudding in the purple-walled bathroom, will Mary Beth and Lisa finish painting the doors, will Carl complete the railing on the front ramp, and will the hole in the master bath get repaired? Keep positive thoughts for us faithful blog followers…please, keep positive thoughts.
