Forever Hilltop Two-In-One by Judy Baer

Author:Judy Baer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forever Hilltop: Featuring An Unlikely Blessing & Surprising Grace
ISBN: 9780824945299
Publisher: Guideposts
Published: 2012-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

To Alex’s relief, Dixon didn’t make a comment. Maybe he would start by trying it out on his friend. Dixon looked like he’d eat just about anything.

“Surely you didn’t go to such trouble for a pastoral visit,” Alex said.

“I love to do this sort of thing,” Nancy said. “This is why I’m glad to see you, Dixon. As usual, I prepared too much food. My husband Ben complains about gaining weight. He told me to find someone else to feed.” She frowned. “Can I help it that I love to cook?”

“Glad to be of service,” Dixon said cheerfully. “Call me any time you have leftovers. My bachelor meals leave something to be desired.”

“Good to know. Now help yourselves.” Nancy fluttered around them like a perfect tearoom hostess.

After one bite into the scone, Alex closed his eyes blissfully. “Just like my mother used to make.”

“The highest compliment.” Nancy smiled broadly.

“Unless your mother was a cook like my aunt Alice,” Dixon offered. “The woman could ruin Jell-O. Don’t even get me started on the chicken she cooked. There should have been a law against it. After dinner at her house we played twenty questions to figure out what kind of meat she’d served. Sometimes we’d throw it back and forth like a Frisbee until the dog got it.” He tucked into the scones.

“I’m curious to know what this visit is about, Nancy,” Alex said. “The last time I saw you both, you and Ben were bemoaning the cost of insulating this house for winter. And now…”

Nancy flushed and looked a little embarrassed. “I finally did what you’ve been telling me to do all along, Pastor Alex. I got down on my knees and prayed. Funny, isn’t it, how what should be so obvious—like prayer—is always a last resort when it should be the first. It finally sank in that the only way to know what to do with the house was to ask God to guide us. I’d been asking, of course, but, I have to admit, not really listening for an answer. About three days ago I woke up with my answer.”

“God does speak through dreams sometimes. Joseph, for example…”

“I woke up from a dream in which I was serving tea just like I am today—only to a group of strangers.” Nancy smiled at Alex and Dixon’s confused expressions. “Not just any strangers—guests at my bed-and-breakfast. Hubbard House B&B. The idea has come up before, but never so clearly as this. I saw the entire thing in my dream.” She clasped her hands together and put them to her lips, looking excited.

“You’d turn Hubbard House into a B&B?”

“If we had income from the house, it would be easier to justify fixing it up and living in it. We’ve already closed off the third-floor ballroom and the two draftiest bedrooms on the north side of the house. I can use my homemade quilts to warm the rooms. Yesterday I designed quilted window dressings. Cozy and pretty—and when you pull the quilted curtains closed, no draft would dare try to get in.

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