The Lord keeps sending such wonderful people to our little B&B.... what a hoot! Sometimes keeps me from getting time to muse :)

Old friends from New Jersey have been here for 2 days. A friend from New Hampshire arrives tonight and then others from NH on Friday. Saturday brings old friends from Connecticut..... then there are the new guests who will be friends when they leave!

Appreciated your comment.....question :)

Wish there were easy answers....... magic prayers...... some simple plan...... the 10 steps for a perfect attack...... I don't even want to joke about that as the title of my next (first) book! What you are looking for is what we all long for...you know the simple way to do this thing and get on with it. Once again, we can take a look at any/every religious system and you will see their formula, their method, their doctrine clearly spelling out how it all works........ only how come it never has?

First great news is that the cold I got blind sided with is gone in just 4 days.

Next good news is, we did a spur of the moment thing on Friday and drove to Maine for a night away (at a B&B of course!), with a dinner and massage package..... then on Saturday drove to be with old friends of ours to witness their daughter's marriage (more about that will be on our family blog page - in our blog roll it's ellen and philip)..... then we drove back last night.

It's amazing how Satan takes even the incredible blessings of our Father and uses them to poke at some area of weakness whether body, soul or spirit. He's good at it.

I seem to just about sit down to start typing and all kinds of things start to happen...... phones ring, people stop by, guests check in, or return from being out and want to chat... just constant. The Lord has blessed this transition from 2007 to 2008 in a way that boggles my mind. I have been trying to get after crunching all the numbers to close out the year, but won't begin to touch it till tomorrow. It seems we have been non-stop with virtually every room filled for two weeks. I crashed at 8:00 last night and slept for 10 hours. This morning our last guests checked out.

I think I can point to scripture for most of the things I try to communicate. Feel free to ask! :)

The other day, I was talking about seeing through the Matrix (the kingdom of darkness)...... (the kingdoms of this world that we see with our natural eyes)..... and getting past that to see into another Kingdom that can only be seen with the eyes of our heart. The natural world that we look at every day, as against the spiritual world which we cannot see with our natural eyes.

We were born into a world at war! Although we can look around in our real world and read about wars in various parts of the world, read of violence, suicide bombers, assassinations, or whatever.....rarely do we understand why. If only we could just all get along! There is only one way we can all get along..... and it starts with our need to understand we all live in the Matrix.

And just when I thought things were winding down for the year..... another 3 bookings.... kind of the Lord's Christmas present to us on Christmas Day. I continue to be clueless as to what He is going to do next in our lives... or how this year will actually wind up.... except it will be better than I was expecting it to be when I wrote the other day.

We are having a great Holiday week with our Seattle contingent in with us for the week.... just another blessing! Lots to get going on this morning with the place filling up with guests for the next 6 days.......

Back in 2004, we were up 20% and I was hard pressed to think we could keep growing like that, since we only have 5 rooms to sell, just so many weekends and so many holidays in a year and those special times like foliage when you can sell every room, every nite and get almost any price you want to ask...... anyway.....we decided to raise our rates in 2005 knowing it would affect the number of nites we booked, but felt that would be offset by the rate increases.

I am so happy that I never took any of the exhortations to write a book!   There were quite a few encouragements over the years, but the Lord never told me to write one...... and it was a good thing. I would have had to write a retraction of most of what I would have written..... :) even the one I was going to entitle 20 years ago "What I Learned after I Knew Everything"!