Posted on 04/07/2021 8:41:54 AM PDT by Mrs. Warrior
Late one spring evening quite a few years ago, my teenage daughter and I peered out the door to enjoy the cool of the spring night. In the glow of the porch light we saw something in the bush out by the door so we shone a flashlight on it. In the bright beam of the flashlight, many glistening pairs of eyes glowed . We decided the eyes belonged to insects of some sort and the effect of the many red dots of reflected light was rather mesmerizing. But then one of them left the bush and flew towards the source of bright light, which just happened to be the flashlight in my hand! It swirled around me as I waved the flashlight frantically trying to ward it off and it suddenly landed in my hair! I screamed and I asked my my daughter to get it out. Our sweet daughter loves her momma, but has a rather strong dislike of anything with more than two or four legs so she looked at me, then at it and jumped back! “ I just can't! I can't touch it!” she exclaimed.
My husband had retired for the night and was upstairs sleeping. But sounds of the incident awakened him and he called out “what is all the commotion?” I said “I am being attacked”. We heard him getting out of bed, and then the sound of hurried footfalls as he made his way to and down the stairs. My daughter looked at me and stated “oh no, we are in trouble now, dad gets grumpy getting woke up!”
Before my husband arrived, my daughter retrieved a fly swatter and smacked the bug on my head! I screamed again! As my husband arrived, my daughter stated matter of factly “you can go back to bed now dad, I killed it!” He interjected “so why is mom still screaming?”So, we both explained to him what had unfolded and he smiled and asked if we got a video?
He had hurried down stairs ready to defend his women; chuckling, he asked “now where is this dangerous 'attacker'? I told him “its on my head and it is dead”. He told me honey next time you say you are being attacked please mention that it is a bug as he motioned at his holstered sidearm!
He helped me remove the insidious violator from my hair and in his hand was the remnants of the creature. He pointed out the various parts and sure enough, there still remained a pair of eyeballs! As I looked at the mess, my eyes seemed to go cross-eyed in disgust. Ever curious about the natural things around him, my husband said he wanted to see the red-eyed bugs for himself. He took the flashlight and opened the door to see the sight. We girls stepped back in knowing fear of what was about to happened next! Sure enough, at the appearance of the bright beam of light, several of the insects leapt out the bush, took to wing and hurried directly to the source of light! As my husband withdrew inside to close the door, in they came! Our sweet daughter daughter started to scream and run around trying to avoid the bugs. I got the fly swatter and was ready to counterattack, “bad bugs”! My husband said “turn out all but one light, so they swarm in one spot and then we can get rid of them”. I got a blanket and put it over my head!
Eventually, my husband and I defeated the insidious unwanted swarm and all worked out just fine for us, however, the bushes got a good dose of repellent the next morning and the red-eyed villains were no were to be found.
So, this recollection of a family situation got me thinking about our current political situation. Seems like we have a swarm of unlikely fellows in our government who seem bent on disrupting the fabric of our normal life. Like the bugs of my story, they do not hold to the common interests or values of our nation. The entrance of the bugs into our home was predicated on innocently opening a door for noble and civil purposes and the result was a bit of mayhem and mild consternation to say the least.
Much more is at stake in the bigger picture. So, as in the account, the removal of the bugs required closing the door, cutting off the source of their interest and then isolating the problem followed by judicious removal of the unwanted creatures in order for our home to return to normalcy. As it says in Psalm 50 “when the Lord returns, He will restore order to His house”.
LOL - sounds like my wife.
And as a side note, I am not sure that anyone who screams at a bug can be referred to as “Warrier”. /grin
Speaking from experience in my own house, if women got together a real army and declared war on men the most effective weapon to use against them would be SPIDERS!
Or...”MICE”!
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