We moved!

There's all kinds of reasons why you move to a new place---new job, new baby, new home, change in health of a family member, loss of job, etc. I remember the first little one room apartment my wife and I rented back in East Point, GA. It was very tiny. The bathroom was so small you almost had to step out of it into the bedroom from the shower to towel off, or else you would smack your hands on the wall. You could almost turn the stove off from the living room or bedroom, maybe take one step. We have good memories from that tiny little apartment because it was our first place as a couple.

Then there was the 2nd apartment, or roach motel. Yikes! I don't know how so many roaches could survive and multiply in one space. We didn't stay there long.

This month we moved again to a small 2 bedroom duplex. It is not as small as the first place we had, actually it has 2 bathrooms and a garage, oh, and a place to play guitar out on the back patio.

We moved this time because of a reason you don't normally move for, gunbattles. Over the past 6 plus years we had heard our fair share of gunbattles within a block or less of our home in Mexico. It was time to either move or pick up a gun, and since I'm not so into automatics, we moved.

If you're thinking,"Wow, that's bad," that's fine with me. But if you have pity for us, don't. Rather, we would ask you have compassion and love for others all over the world who live in warzones like Mexico. Outside of the USA there are quite a few warzones, more than you know. If you decide to have compassion and love for others who live in warzones, show it, display it, do something. Prayer is a good start, but there are other ways too. It may include sacrifice of some sort, you can decide that for yourself.

Please don't do the one thing that most folks do. Don't go, "Wow, that's bad," and do nothing at all but eat another bite of your supper. If you must eat the rest of your supper, then pause a moment to call on the Lord's compassionate hand for those who move because of bullets. I have it on record that the Lord's hand does act in response to the prayers of His children, says so in this wonderful book I pick up regularly. Seems He shows great power through the simple act of prayers of faith in the Bible.

Blessed beyond compare by the watchful eye of the Lord and compassionate hand of Him who loves the Whole world.