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God has such a sense of humor!

It was 11:00 at night. I was already in bed when I remembered I hadn't done my devotional for the day, so I went to the living room. I picked up Mom's Bible and, not really wanting to read the Psalms or anything else in particular, randomly picked Deuteronomy, then randomly picked chapter eight. As I read I realized some similarities between wandering Israel and our family, when a word suddenly jumped off the page at me...

SCORPIONS!

In case you didn't know, we've had a big scorpion problem at our new house. We thought they were gone, but then we had seen one in the kitchen that day. What are the chances? I couldn't believe it!

But wait, it gets better.

I was looking in the concordance to see just how often the word "scorpion" showed up, (4 times actually), when I heard our cat Wallace meowing. It looked like he was playing with his shadow on the wall, or maybe a spider or something. I got up to check and, you'll never believe this,

THERE WAS A SCORPION ON THE WALL!!

Again, I couldn't believe it! I thought about getting Dad, but he was already asleep in bed and I didn't want to wake him up. I tried spraying it with ammonia, the only thing I could think of but that was taking too long. I went to the hall closet and pulled out the ultimate weapon... my cowboy boot. After checking to make sure there weren't any scorpions in it, I pulled it onto my foot. It took awhile, but I finally got up the nerve to squish the scorpion.

CRUNCH!!!

It was GROSS!

I left the contaminated boot where it was, and went to read the Psalms so I could calm down enough to go to bed.

Very funny, God! : )

K. E.

Don't worry, not actual size.