Temporary residence

Yesterday (Oct 31) during my quiet time with the Lord, I thanked Him for having a roof over our heads and to bless the lady who has opened her doors for us allowing us to stay as long as we need to. When I said this, I thought, 'here we are being someone's guests when we have been called to receive guests in our house.' The purpose of us being here is to save some money, pay some debts, and collect funds while we wait on the lot to be officially ours so we can build a shelter. At least that's what we thought. However, I just realized we have become guests instead of hosts. I thought, "There is definitely a lesson to be learned here and I better stay alert and not miss it." My sister-in-law said, "It is like you'll be learning what NOT to do so your guests don't feel uncomfortable." Yes, I do think we will be learning how to make people feel at home. Not that we haven't have guests before, but this is a bit different. The guests we have had before have been relatives, a total of four. I recognize and accept that we have not been very tolerant. It is like if people are not like us, meaning behave like us, believe like us, respond like us we tend not to accept them. Instead of seeing the differences and learning from them, we have fought these and decided to change them or that maybe they should not stay. Also, our
Our future guests are not relatives. These are women we don't know or may know thru the classes we give at the prison. We may have very little information about them since out of respect for their privacy we don't ask to many personal questions. True they usually opened up to me in after the third class but still it isn't like your relatives whom at least you've a better idea of how they are and we tend to be more direct with them (don't want to say 'cruel').
I knew there will be a period of learning but now I think that instead of trial and error with our firsts guests, we are going to learn and 'get' it here.