What are you thankful for?
I am thankful that I have a job at a hotel and I get to see people from all over the world come into it. Really it’s a blissing for me. What about you?
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I am thankful for my wife, our family, our home, retirement, healing, health (pretty good for 72), faith …
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Thankful for understanding the Trinity in the powers becoming again
Happy Thanksgiving to all,
Stephen
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Thank you for your positivity. I am thankful for my Family, my Church Family, and my Friends. I am thankful that I was born into a free-ish Country.
I too worked in a Hotel for a time in my life and it was sort of a retreat for me. I worked the night shift (front Desk) and it gave me time to read books and to Pray. Most of the guests were already checked in and asleep. Then around 4 A.M. I had to do the Night Audit, deliver receipts/newspapers, and get the morning coffee brewing. Thankfully, most nights, I did not run into many problems. Perhaps an answer to my Prayers (I would often Pray for individual guests).
When I drive past this Hotel, it feels like a Holy place for me, because I spent so much time with God (in His Word and in Prayer) while working there. I sometimes still Pray for some of the guests (and wonder where they are and how they are doing). “Mr. Brewer” especially. He was a terrible human being when he was intoxicated, which was often. He had a lot of responsibilities in his life. He was a project manager, a husband (a bad one at that), and a father. His drinking did not help him, it made him not pleasant to be around. And I sometimes Pray still for his conversion (after fifteen years have passed since I worked at the Hotel).
I don’t know if you believe in Prayer, but I invite you to implement this practice of Praying for Hotel guests. They may never know that you are Praying for them. I’m sure you have regular guests like we did and you start to get to know these individuals. I think of “Miss Fulllove,” “Mr. James,” and “Mr. Fitzgerald” who were so kind to me when they would check-in.
I am grateful for this time that I worked at the Hotel (even though I only took the job after being let go from a good-paying job after the company I worked for was bought out). I was going crazy on unemployment and I took this job to do something. I was making more on unemployment, but this job gave me my dignity and purpose back. I have since moved on, but look fondly to my short time there.