Bee's Guest House

[Beekissed]

It certainly is funny and makes for a life that is not boring....I have been working towards this for so long it feels very weird to not be doing it. I'm certain God will find a better use for my time and thoughts during this time of stress in the world.

Just when I got things how I like them......

I would love to have a life of travelling around to help and minister to people who are living simply and looking for answers. Not that I have the answers but would hope that God would give them to me for this purpose.

 

[Dace]

Well not many of us have very many answers, but you have a great deal of knowledge AND a beautiful way with words. I can see you doing some kind of ministry work.

You know for a few years I had a burning all consuming desire to be out in the sticks......to live in a place with land and raise my own animals and food. That feeling is completely gone. I really don't know why or how it left me, but to be honest I am thankful that God did away with that obsession, because it felt like something that was never going to happen anyway because my Hubby was not n board.

I am still floating along, trying to listen but God is not revealing anything to me yet.

 

[Denim Deb]

Being opened to God's leading is what's most important. There are days when I find myself homesick for a place that doesn't exist, a place where I can have all my animals together, and raise the majority of what I eat. I have been praying that if this is not God's plan for my life, that He'd take the desire from me. And if it is, then I know He'll provide it for me AT THE RIGHT TIME. And that can be the hardest part right there, waiting on God's timing.

 

[Beekissed]

Being opened to God's leading is what's most important. There are days when I find myself homesick for a place that doesn't exist, a place where I can have all my animals together, and raise the majority of what I eat. I have been praying that if this is not God's plan for my life, that He'd take the desire from me. And if it is, then I know He'll provide it for me AT THE RIGHT TIME. And that can be the hardest part right there, waiting on God's timing.

I believe that place does exist and we are all homesick for it, especially now. Why would the Earth and the creatures upon it groan for His coming and not us? We are a creature here also and I think the feelings we have for a place of refuge and solace, of simplicity and beauty are our natural longings for Heaven.

The Bible says that every human has a built in longing for their real home in Heaven....now would be the time we would be feeling that homesickness more than ever. We are so close to getting there that we can almost taste it!

I have been studying up on Heaven lately with the same fervor that I used to have when I studied up on SS living, animal husbandry and all that goes with creating a simple life of beauty and simplicity. I have become so heavenly minded that I'm almost of no earthly good anymore....but I think God has turned my mind to that for a reason. Soon I will be going there and it is in my nature to research and learn all I can before I start to do anything in my life....be it travel, lifestyle, work, etc.

The more I learn about Heaven it makes me wonder how in the world I've been able to stand living here on Earth!

My every thought lately has been bent upon getting to the Lord, lining up with Him to see justice done on this Earth and to see our King come rightfully into His kingdom and take His place as ruler of this Earth. I want to walk with Him and know what He knows, as much as it is possible for me to do so. I want and need the place He has gone to prepare for me....I am homesick as well, Deb.

We are a bride anxiously anticipating the return of our bridegroom who will come and take us to the place where we will live together for eternity....why wouldn't we be restless and impatient for that day? I know that I am! I've never known true love here and I can only imagine what it will be like there....I can't wait to finally stop feeling lonely.

 

[BarredBuff]

I will admit it. Im anxious for heaven to!! I mean I cant wait!!! I want to walk in the garden, sorta like they do in that hymn. I want that!! I want to sing his praises forever more! For he is the creator, he is my true father!

 

[Beekissed]

I guess it never occured to me that we would be immortal and have godlike qualities there until I started to read more. Then I started to dream about the possibilities of that state of being.....having the strength of the angels, the understanding and knowledge that God has to share, the ability to create beautiful things like God, to move and communicate like God and His angels.....we could fly like eagles, swim with dolphins(without coming up for air~who needs it?), talk to a flower/insect/animal and understand its language, see more, hear more, do more than we ever could do in this frail human body!

Imagine being able to see all things that happened since the world began and to understand God's plan at last. To know the answers to the questions we've always wanted to know, to see how God created everything and to finally thank Jesus for saving my life, for loving me, for creating me to be who I am....imagine how wonderful our lives will be there?

 

[BarredBuff]

Im gonna give Jesus the biggest bear hug ever!!! AND I want to know the mysteries of God, how he created the world, the animals, and why things were as they were.

 

[Beekissed]

Imagine the home we will have there? Beautiful and designed especially to suit our personality....I can't wait to explore it and the rest of Heaven! My house will be filled with light and color, the sound of water and comfortable places to sit and lie down.

I can't wait to see old friends who have gone on before, sit down and play music, sing, dance, talk, laugh and feast on the best food I've ever tasted. To laugh and talk with Jesus will be most satisfying and will warm my soul to the core.

 

[BarredBuff]

Imagine the home we will have there? Beautiful and designed especially to suit our personality....I can't wait to explore it and the rest of Heaven! My house will be filled with light and color, the sound of water and comfortable places to sit and lie down.

I can't wait to see old friends who have gone on before, sit down and play music, sing, dance, talk, laugh and feast on the best food I've ever tasted. To laugh and talk with Jesus will be most satisfying and will warm my soul to the core.

That will be really nice!! Im super anxious!!

 

[Beekissed]

Well....tomorrow the sheeple ladies go back to their farm of origin and I will no longer be enchanted by their rolly-polly cuteness.

My boys and I got to thinking about how we never even got to eat any of our own sheep and how little Fats will just be shipped off to the sale market with other meat lambs.....and decided to keep Fats here on the land~in a manner of speaking.

The boys came over and processed rotund Fats here....very quickly and efficiently. Without my presence. I just couldn't do this one. He was too sweet, too lovey, too much like a stuffed animal...innocent and soft. I wimped out~big time.

Now all that is left of dear little Fats is in a pan in the bottom of my fridge and hanging on the clothesline. His pelt is at peak lushness and is a thing of beauty that I will cherish, and we will all get to consume the culmination of my sheep experiment. The boys say the meat is so tender that it practically fell off the carcass.

I'll be looking for good lamb recipes online, as we have never had or cooked our own lamb before. I've only tasted lamb once and it was a woolly breed....it was okay but I wasn't all that impressed.

His mama hasn't cried out or acted like she was looking for him, which was a relief for me. It was also a tremendous relief to let the boys do my dirty work just this once....I couldn't bring myself to even watch over the process.

No one ever told me that sheep would captivate your heart and depend on you like a child....maybe they don't do that in large herds but the smaller groupings seem to look to their humans.

I must be gettin' too soft in my old age...... :/