It's Past My Bedtime

Well, almost. I'm trying to implement a new personal bedtime policy. Am I getting old? (Rhetorical question) I'm trying to make sure I go to bed at least 8 hours before I need to be up the next morning. Hey! Don't hate me because we don't have kids. This is not going to be easy.

I've just been doing a pretty poor job of taking good care of my physical body especially lately. In a way, if I don't take good care of myself it can become more difficult to help take care of others. I've committed to trying this for the next 6-7 weeks (leading up to my trip to Redding in June).

According to the clock on the stove (the Baker residence "official" time, the equivalent to the national atomic clock) I have about 23 minutes remaining.

Speaking of the Baker residence... this could be a good time to introduce another topic. My wife Gina and I, around the beginning of this year, more officially have opened up our home as a guest house to support our home church and the local house of prayer. This means when we have guest speakers, for example, we ask the event leaders to keep us at the top of the list of people to stay with. We also open our doors to those visiting the church or house of prayer from out of town which often ends up being people we already know. We've also open our door for related ministries like those associated with houses of prayer outside our immediate area such as Kansas City. We've had missionaries stay here before and have plans for more next month. We have a 3-bedroom house the Lord has blessed us with (just the 2 of us and our 30-pound house dog, Ladybug) and we live only 7 doors down from the church.

I'd like to share more with you about this sometime but that at least gives you an idea. Though up until recently we've been calling it the Maxwell House (on Maxwell St) we've, even more recently, renamed it The Peace Inn according to a very specific dream I had. It's kind of a play on words in reference to the youthful expression, "Peace Out". I'm sure there are some other levels of meaning we'll continue to enjoy exploring.

- Wade Baker