Welcome to my view

So far subdivision living hasn't been real good to us. The house to the left of us has four little dogs that bark all the time! On Sunday they had them outside for about five hours and they barked the entire time, this unfortunately is a very common thing (and yes, this is the house of the teenager that spent the night at our house). Then across the street a couple moved in about a month ago. A very nice couple, but I guess I'm just picky. First because they have three vechicles and this wonderful blazer is the one they sit in front of my house that they never drive, so I am forced to look at it all day long. Seriously? Seriously. Then last weekend the guy came out to wash his car for three hours in a speedo. That's right, three hours watching a guy in a speedo bending over to wash his car. Seriously...are you kidding me!

But, as I'm complaining, I am once again reminded of what the Lord has really been speaking to me about. One day as I was getting really annoyed about all these things, I felt like God was asking me to step out of my little sinful, worldly, complaining box and ask myself, "does it really matter"? Who cares that I look at a ugly truck all day, who cares if I hear some dogs bark for a couple of hours a day (okay, that is a tad annoying)...anyway...then I realized that maybe the Lord had put them there for a reason. By talking to the neighbors on all different sides of us, we believe that they don't have a relationship with the Lord. Which saddens me and makes me realize that maybe that is why our house is in the middle of all of them. So I decided that instead of complaining and getting annoyed with these things, when I see or hear them, it is the Lord (constantly) reminding me to pray for these neighbors. Actually today, the neighbor across the street came over and hung out at the house for a couple hours and we might start taking walks in the morning together. What a great way to start a relationship. See, even God can work through a stay-at-home, non showered, extremely tired, mom. With God, all things are possible!