My People Will Live in Quiet Places

by Robin M. Strom

From the Liturgy of the Hours Isiah 32:18

"Then will the desert become an orchard.

Then will the orchard become regarded as a forest.

Right will dwell in the desert, and justice reside in the orchard.

Justice will bring about peace.

Right will bring along calm.

My people will live in a peaceful country. In quiet restful places.

My people will live in quiet places.”

When the team investigated First State Military Academy the second time, Dave and I took a turn in the abandoned chapel. The Chapel hasn't been in use since the 1970's if not longer, when St. Joseph's Industrial School closed its doors after nearly 100 years of operating as a boarding school for under privileged youth.

On the crumbling alter in the Chapel were of course religious books, including one book entitled the Liturgy of the Hours. Not being Catholic, I'm not quite sure what one does with the Liturgy.

However, I opened the book and began reading a passage at random. And of course, because of synchronicities, I just happened to have chosen a passage that would move me deeply and would become the main focus of the book's introduction. In fact, when I truly become upset, I remind myself that someday I too will live in quiet places.

Here in this abandoned chapel, in the middle of a hot summer night, Dave and I all by ourselves and I'm reading about how we've been promised to someday live in peace, when the strivings of the world will cease, as the dust motes floated, and the bees buzzed and the peace of the chapel descended upon our souls.

If you would like to know what evidence the team captured in the Chapel, it's all laid out in the book, "These Haunted Halls; Inside America's Most Haunted School." (And trust me there was plenty of evidence!) The book is available on the team website at www.delawareparanormal.org and on Amazon.

The Chapel all lit up for the investigation.

Robin investigating in the Chapel