We were so blessed to have a sweet little 3 bedroom, 2 bath house to move into in Florida with a beautiful swimming pool. It was the most beautiful pool I have ever seen, even to this day. It was called a black water pool. It actually looked like a lagoon with a flagstone deck. We spent most of our time out there. Clay was afraid of the water when we first moved in. We couldn't get him off the first step but with a little coaxing from one of his kindergarten friends, he soon became a little fish. Soon he would be standing on a boogie board, surfing the waves of New Smyrna Beach at the age of four. Now he is a very accomplished surfer with sand in his shoes. It will be very difficult to ever get him too far from the beach.
Looks can be so deceiving, cant they? Prior to our move into this lovely rental home, three bachelors lived there. They didn't want to pay for garbage pick up so they had a two wheel trailer next to the house where they threw all the garbage and then hauled it to the dump when it was full. We wanted to make sure that had been done before we moved in.
I had been staying at my friends for two weeks. Glen put the boys on a plane and then he and his friend Jim drove down with our belongings. The boys and I went over to the house to clean before they arrived. I remember there was a little lizard in one of the bedrooms. It freaked me out. I gave the boys the broom and shut the door of the bedroom and told them to catch it or kill it but don't come out till you do. They thought that was great fun. They loved being mommy's little hero's. After thirteen years in Florida, lizards don't bother me in the least. They didn't change, I did. I just got used to them.
As soon as the guys got there we began to set up housekeeping. We had only brought our bedroom set and had planned to pick up some used furniture for the boys as soon as we could. In the meantime they were on sleeping bags in their rooms. It was our second night in the house and we were all asleep. Suddenly Glen flips on the bedroom light. "What are you doing?" I asked. "You don't want to know", he said. Then he proceeded to tell me. He was right, I didn't want to know. He had felt something on his leg. When he moved, it jumped down to the floor. When he investigated, it turned out to be a rat. It had come through a hole behind the toilet. Well I was up for the night. I told him to shut the boys bedroom doors and the lights stayed on.
It seems the rats were hanging out in the trailer full of garbage and when they moved it away, they moved into the attic of our house looking for food. They found every hole in the house. We fought them for weeks. Every time we thought we had all the holes blocked, they came in another. Behind every sink, every toilet and behind the stove. We put out poison and now they where dying in the walls and we were finding them in the pool, bathtub and the hot tub looking for water. I will never forget this time in our lives. I use to be afraid of a little mouse but after this, I would have been relieved to have a mouse.
That reminds me of how we become so accustomed to things that go on in our world that are so very sinful and we become desensitized to it because it's in our face all the time. Suddenly we say, "It doesn't bother me anymore" or "That's not so bad. At least they're not doing this or doing that". We keep letting Satan have this victory. We need to stand up against the rats of this world anyway we can.
Remember the lizard? I thought he was an awful thing and wanted it killed or out of my house. But then I was around them so much that they didn't bother me anymore. I was glad to see one in the house because they ate insects. Immorality is like that. Kill it, don't let it in the house but then because it's in the media and around every where we look, in our face constantly, we've become use to it. Our nation is in trouble, our children are struggling. We need to pray!
Looks can be so deceiving, cant they? Prior to our move into this lovely rental home, three bachelors lived there. They didn't want to pay for garbage pick up so they had a two wheel trailer next to the house where they threw all the garbage and then hauled it to the dump when it was full. We wanted to make sure that had been done before we moved in.
I had been staying at my friends for two weeks. Glen put the boys on a plane and then he and his friend Jim drove down with our belongings. The boys and I went over to the house to clean before they arrived. I remember there was a little lizard in one of the bedrooms. It freaked me out. I gave the boys the broom and shut the door of the bedroom and told them to catch it or kill it but don't come out till you do. They thought that was great fun. They loved being mommy's little hero's. After thirteen years in Florida, lizards don't bother me in the least. They didn't change, I did. I just got used to them.
As soon as the guys got there we began to set up housekeeping. We had only brought our bedroom set and had planned to pick up some used furniture for the boys as soon as we could. In the meantime they were on sleeping bags in their rooms. It was our second night in the house and we were all asleep. Suddenly Glen flips on the bedroom light. "What are you doing?" I asked. "You don't want to know", he said. Then he proceeded to tell me. He was right, I didn't want to know. He had felt something on his leg. When he moved, it jumped down to the floor. When he investigated, it turned out to be a rat. It had come through a hole behind the toilet. Well I was up for the night. I told him to shut the boys bedroom doors and the lights stayed on.
It seems the rats were hanging out in the trailer full of garbage and when they moved it away, they moved into the attic of our house looking for food. They found every hole in the house. We fought them for weeks. Every time we thought we had all the holes blocked, they came in another. Behind every sink, every toilet and behind the stove. We put out poison and now they where dying in the walls and we were finding them in the pool, bathtub and the hot tub looking for water. I will never forget this time in our lives. I use to be afraid of a little mouse but after this, I would have been relieved to have a mouse.
That reminds me of how we become so accustomed to things that go on in our world that are so very sinful and we become desensitized to it because it's in our face all the time. Suddenly we say, "It doesn't bother me anymore" or "That's not so bad. At least they're not doing this or doing that". We keep letting Satan have this victory. We need to stand up against the rats of this world anyway we can.
Remember the lizard? I thought he was an awful thing and wanted it killed or out of my house. But then I was around them so much that they didn't bother me anymore. I was glad to see one in the house because they ate insects. Immorality is like that. Kill it, don't let it in the house but then because it's in the media and around every where we look, in our face constantly, we've become use to it. Our nation is in trouble, our children are struggling. We need to pray!
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