It's amazing how God works.  He's in all the details of our lives.  

We learned from Dorothy that when she has to go to her relative's house to spend the night because Shiloh is full, she joins them on a double bed mattress.  There is her sister's 20 something year old daughter, 15 year old daughter, and 5 year old granddaughter, all sleeping on their double bed mattress on the floor.  So when Aunt Dorothy shows up she gets to sleep cross way on the bed, down at their feet.  

When we learned of a missionary family leaving Cameroon for good who was selling their queen size bed frame and mattress for an incredibly low price, we jumped at the chance to buy it.  We thought we would be buying it for the three sardines.  When Dorothy learned of our plans, she immediately claimed the bed.  She said that she would tell her nieces that it was her bed but they would get to use it, too.  

Today when we picked up the bed, we brought it first to Shiloh.  Papa Jim wanted to set it up and check it out.  He wanted to be sure there were no problems with the bed before it went to the nieces tiny studio apartment.  So he and Dorothy set it up on our side porch and she laid down on it to try it out.  Was it ever comfortable!  As she was getting up off the bed she told us that if there was a way to enclose the side porch she would turn it into her bedroom.  That way she wouldn't have to be moving from one room to another inside Shiloh, depending on the needs of our guests.  Sometimes she even moves to the living room floor and sleeps on a single bed mattress.  And sometimes it is off to sleep with the three sardines. After much discussion and considering the pros and cons from every angle, we have come up with a way to make a make-shift bedroom on the side porch for Dorothy.  She is delighted, excited, overjoyed, and ecstatic, and is certain she won't sleep a wink as she dreams of having her very own room.  And we are going to bed in awe of the Almighty.  Once again He goes before us, providing for us in ways we could never imagine.