When the kids go somewhere overnight, they are looking forward to fun and excitement. When I go somewhere overnight, I'm looking forward to lots of silence and going to the bathroom without a little one coming in to make sure I don't disappear. This was it! The week I got to stay overnight in Atlanta after an all day meeting. I stayed at the Hotel Indigo, an older hotel in Midtown. My room was lovely, overlooking the Fox Theatre. I began to settle in around 8:30 p.m. I had the iPad all to myself. I could read, I could surf the Internet, I could relax. Aaaahhhh!
Then it happened. The noise was incredible! My door was directly across from the ice machine - literally 3 feet away. It was facing my door. I'm sure you're thinking that it couldn't be that bad, right? Well, the ice buckets were galvanized pails! Every 15 to 20 minutes someone just had to get ice during the next 4 hours. I'm not sure when I went to sleep, but I was certainly wishing I were at home in my own bed.
The next night as I was saying prayers with the little one, I truly thanked God for bringing me safely home and for the privilege of sleeping peacefully in my own bed.
Isaiah 32:18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
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