Mouse in the House!!!

It's a funny thing that the other day I was feeling very convicted that I don't know any of my neighbors. Now granted I have only lived in my house since July, but in this 7 months the only person I have really met is the mother of my next door neighbor. She knocked on the door right after I first moved in wanting to know if I had some ice she could use because my next door neighbor had just had knee surgery.

So with that said, I had just pulled in my parking space last night and was talking to my mom on the phone, and one of my neighbors a few houses down came up to my car. She said 'would you mind coming to help me?' and 'are you brave?' I'm thinking oh no what have I gotten myself into?? She proceeded to explain that there was a mouse in her house and she was having trouble catching it by herself!! She's a little bit older and had knee surgery last year, as well as a bad back and to top it off the one of her two cats that is a mouser has diabetes and wasn't feeling well :-( All the while I'm thinking, this isn't going to be pretty!!!

I walked into her house and there was the mouse walking across the top of the kitchen window. There was a broom and a small trash can involved but to no avail. The mouse jumped down to the counter, ran across and hopped up on top of the toaster oven and crawled right into an oven mitt!!! I swear it felt like I was in a movie :-) So I picked up the oven mitt took it outside and through it in the trash. My poor neighbor was almost shaking, she said don't worry about it I don 't need that oven mitt anymore!!

So needless to say, I met my sweet neighbor Lynn, made a new friend and was reassured if there was ever ANYTHING I needed to please come and ask!!! What an amazing opportunity to reach out to a neighbor without even seeking it out. How awesome is it that the Lord can use a rodent to spread the love of Christ!! What an incredible God He is :-)