Life's Little Changes and Rolling With the Punches

Dear Friends,

Where do I begin? It seems what we thought was a "dream" turned out to be a "nightmare"! We were totally mislead about the job on the mountain and once we got up there, we were staying in a little, OLD, furnished house that was only meant to be rented out to people attending events for a few days at a time. It was very nice, but not meant to be lived in for long periods. We were lead to believe that our house would be started right away and we'd be living in it within a matter of a few months at the most. That never happened and 5 months later, there was still nothing being done on the house. When we first went up to talk about the position, we asked if there were any financial problems at all and were adamantly told that there were not. Once up there and once we began working, we found out that there were financial problems and money was VERY tight and scarce; to the point that they didn't know if they could make payroll from one week to the next. Then the entire job seemed to change and was not what we were told it would be. The stress levels were so thick amongst all the staff that whenever the owner came around, everyone stiffened up and acted like they were afraid to breathe. The owner would laug about this when it was brought up. A few of the staff people quit working for her because of how they were treated and she said she didn't care. After trying to make this work for 5 months, we dedided that this was not what we were called to do and enquired into our previous job. We were enthusiastically welcomed back with open arms! We're now back in our house that we had put up for sale and took off the market so we could move back in! I couldn't be happier!! I've planted flowers and a vegetable garden and once again love sitting on my upper deck watching the sun set over the mountains! Life is good and so is our God!