"I feel like a millionaire!" (One Night in the Lap of Luxury)

We are used to staying in inns and hostels and ordinary hotels...so being in a 5-star hotel was a unique experience....as my younger son Brian said as he stepped into the room..."I feel like a millionaire!" Hahaha!

Thanks to my generous sister and brother-in-law, who gave us a gift certificate for Christmas for an overnight stay (weekend) in a Superior Room at the Makati Shangri-la Hotel ,right in the middle of the Central Business District of Metro Manila, we got a taste of luxury. For no apparent reason, we were upgraded to a Deluxe Room on the 27th floor...woohoo! We stayed there June 7 to 8, 2008.

I thank God for the stay at the hotel. But in the midst of all that finery, I always remembered Matthew 6:26-29: "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."

Five-star hotels are nothing compared to Solomon's splendor. Yet the Bible says that Solomon's splendor cannot compare to God's provision.

Here are some pictures of the night in the lap of luxury:

Above: Clowning around on the king-sized bed

Above: The one standing up is the son who said "I feel like a millionaire"

Hahaha! A fake magazine cover--just for fun! I sent this photo to
my sister and brother-in-law when I thanked them for their gift.