Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

Recently I was blessed with the opportunity to re-hash Genesis with a group of friends.   We each took a few chapters and summarized those chapters and went through the group.   We covered it all in about 45 minutes.   It was a lot of information to take in, but also fun to hear our friends breathlessly try to fit in everything that they could about the stories that we already knew, into the short few minutes they were given to do this in.   The book of Genesis has an awful lot of drama.   Hearing pieces of it, I thought a soap opera writer couldn’t have done better themselves.   God makes man perfect, but gives us free will – Man sins- Man is thrown out of the Garden of Eden- Man has two sons- One son kills the other son, the world goes down hill.   God sends a flood to kill everything and start over.   He then calls a man who is really really old to follow him.   Abraham has a wife Sarah- Sarah can’t have babies so tells him to ...

The other day my family was innocently watching a movie on TV when I see a little brown mouse dart across the room.   I wish I could say this was something new for us, but unfortunately, living in the country, this happens more often than I would like to admit.   So my brave husband went and got his shoe and a bucket so we could catch it and kill it, and I stood guard behind the couch to make sure it didn’t get out.   The mouse finally came out and we almost got it, but it disappeared down the AC register. (Nasty right?) So I got out the chunky peanut butter and proceed to set 4 snap traps.   We tie the snap traps to the inside of our register and put them down the vent.   That sounds silly, but we have caught so many mice this way.   In the morning, when I went to check on the traps, I was overjoyed to see that I had caught one.   Now granted, I know that usually where there is one mouse that you see, there are many more that you cannot see, and that...