I'm Alive...For Now Anyway

Your eyes are not deceiving you, this is in fact a new post from yours truly, which carries with it the good news that I have not fallen off the face of the earth as you might have suspected.

I am alive and mostly well.

I am loving my new job! I feel like I am really building some good relationships with my clients and I think there is great potential for ministry, which is super exciting!

I am not, however, loving my new house. Remember in my last post when I mentioned all the creatures that have supposedly lived in my house in the past? Well, great news, they also live here in the present. That's right, I have seen and or heard evidences of raccoons and rats. I have killed a handful of large roaches. I have personally seen, killed and been bitten by numerous fleas, and to top it all off, I have witnessed the trapping and "killing" of two skunks, which have left my house with a pungent odor that doesn't seem to go away. I could tell you the horrible story of their demise, but I think I will spare you the details.

I told a colleague today that the Lord must be trying to teach me something through pests, but I can't figure out for the life of me what the lesson is.

Honestly, my biggest concern right now is the fleas. I have this irrational idea that I am going to contract some horribly awful disease from them, like oh, I don't know, typhus or the bubonic plague, both of which are flea borne diseases. Highly unlikely, I realize, but still...just to be on the safe side I looked up symptoms of such sicknesses, just so I would know. So far, I think I'm ok.