protection

today one of the scariest things of my entire life happened. i had just gotten out of the shower and i heard my dogs barking and freaking out and thought, "for the love! what is wrong with those dogs?!?!" so i quickly opened the door to the bathroom and there in my kitchen was a young black man looking just as suprised as i felt. immediately i remembered my phone was sitting on the table by the front door and so i started to go for it but the young man came over and shoved me into the wall, therefore causing me to fall to the ground. as i lay on the ground with this stranger in my home i prayed, "lord protect me" as i feared i was about to be raped or murdered or both. but to my suprise this young man took off out the back door.

never in the entire time that we have lived here have i been afraid to be in my own home alone, but i must say that today marked the first time i have ever truly felt that i was in a dangerous place. chris and i joke about the fact that we live in the ghetto right down the street from the projects and with drugs running rampant around us, but it really hit me today that we have truly been protected in the past year that we've lived here.

the police officers that came to the house kept asking if i wanted to press assault charges or breaking and entering but i was just so thankful that nothing else had happened that i decided not to. i figure that this teenager kid made a bad decision, but in all honesty no harm no foul. granted i may not feel comfortable while alone in my house for some time, but when i think about what he could have done, i am just thankful that the Lord sent his angels to protect me.

and now for the humorous parts of the story, because you have to know that there was something funny about what happened... not only was i taken to suprise because there was a man who was not chris in my kitchen, but i was stark naked minus the towel wrapped around my head. oh and my dogs, the vicious, flesh eating, protective dogs we own, were jumping up on this guy, tails wagging, surely thinking" pet me, pet me, new friend!"

be blessed... and make sure your doors are locked when you're alone in the house!

silence

there are times when i am all alone in our house and the stillness and quietness is something rare. in those moments when i look around and see all the "stuff" we have i am reminded again how blessed we truly are.
when we bought our house a little over a year ago it was a whirlwind experience. we found a house, signed contracts with a realtor, made an offer, signed our lives away for the house, and moved in within a months time. tell me that was not God! and the kicker was our house payment is only $30 more a month than we were paying for rent. and while this was such a blessing i still find myself wanting more, or unhappy with the neighborhood, or... there is always something to complain about. but today i am not going to complain because i am so very very thankful for the provisions the Lord has given us. even though we may not have a huge house, or a pool, or a fenced in yard, there are thousands of people who would probably love to have our house. so thank you Lord for our home.
i am not exactly sure whose idea it was to make the pregnancy test sticks available to the public years ago, but i am not a fan of that person. we have spent so much money on those dadnabit tests in the last year and a half that we probably own stock in the first response company. it is an awful waste of money, but the first time you see that + - combination, the feelings cannot even be described. on the other hand the -- combination is a heartbreak every time. so in lieu of that, whoever decided to sell those stupid tests in grocery stores should be flogged.
chris and i are part of the planning party for the gathering's 4th of july festivities and i had the briliant idea of having a bake off, so they write up on the board "senior saints bake off", and i was like "hold up! i am totally entering". so they changed it to "senior saints/cassie bake off". gotta love the humor. anyways, so i was telling chris that i planned on destroying all the little old ladies who entered this contest, of course, all in the name of love. so i am going to try my hand at a topsy turvy/ or mad hatter cake. if you aren't familiar with what that is go here. it will be a completely different theme on the cake... red, white, blue, you know the drill, but it will be the same idea. anyways, hopefully it won't fall apart when we drive to sevierville.
well that is all for now, the silence and stillness is gone as the dogs have realized that i am up and moving around. be blessed this week.