SNAKES!

I HATE them! Probably my biggest fear! So at times like this when I seem to be barely hanging on by a thread, I wonder…what is the significance of finding a 5 foot long snake in my house?

Yesterday was one of the first days in a while that I was able to stay home, alone and work on music. So I went upstairs to my little “home studio set up” and spent a few hours working on a new song God has laid on my heart. First I must say that the minute this song came to me, I knew it was something different, something that needed to be sung. So after a few hours upstairs working on this song, I decided to go down stairs to clean up a little before our company was expected to arrive. On my way down the stairs I almost stepped on a 5 foot Rat Snake!! Now, I honestly don’t remember what I said, probably not a nice word as I ran back up the stairs, got my cell phone and called our wonderful friend Sam who happens to live right down the street. I am not afraid to admit that I am terrified of snakes and I knew I would not be able to deal with this by myself. Hmmm…sounds familiar! Anyway…I stayed right where I was, watching the snake until Sam got here. Long story short we gladly chopped his head off!

Now if you don’t know, this is actually the 3rd time a snake has entered this house, and if you saw where this house is located you would understand. We are in the COUNTRY, for lack of better words. And my biggest fear since we have been staying here as been having a snake in the house.

So to many people this may seem like nothing, but for us, right now, it was just icing on the cake. I mean REALLY, what are you trying to tell me GOD!? I am either on the right track and satan knows it, or something is REALLY wrong! I can’t help but remember that snake making its way up the stairs (which I didn’t even know they could do!) right where I was making music. And is it just a coincidence that this happens just days after my last blog, which I wrote as a proclamation that as for me and my house we will serve the Lord, no matter what!?

So today as I am looking for jobs online at Publix, Blockbuster, and anywhere else I can think of so that we could get out of this house, I remembered my proclamation. And it hit me. God has been walking me through all of my biggest fears for the past 9 months at least. And even though I have said to myself, I don’t think I can do this, HE has never left my side. He has held my hand like a little child through it all. And now is not the time for giving up.