Snake!

March 29, 2012

So the dreaded thing happened, a snake got in our house!
Josh and I were talking in the kitchen at the end of the day when he looks
out the window and says, “there’s a snake.” He ran for a pipe
and I just ran outside. It was a skinny green snake coming out of a
hole by the screen of our kitchen window. Josh went for it but it
ducked it’s head back in. Josh sprayed the hole with bug killer
and the snake reappeared. He sprayed the snot out of it but we had
no idea if bug killer would do anything. Then the nasty thing
slithered up the screen and into our kitchen! (Guess there is a hole
above the window.) I was screaming, Josh was trying to hit it with a
LONG pole, and decorations were flying around the kitchen with every
swing. The snake was so quick. It went behind our fridge. It is at
these times I do not like living in Africa!!! We hate snake and are
terrified of them. You have no idea which ones are poisonous and
most are. Josh was sweating buckets either because it was 95degrees
in our kitchen, because of his fear of snakes, or both. He told me
to get help because he couldn't move the fridge and hit the snake.
We did not want the snake to get away and hide somewhere in the
house.

The whole time this is happening the kids are standing on the picnic
table outside with their friends. Poor Lydia was crying. They could
hear everything falling inside. Grace was calm and Luka was ready to
go snake hunting. I ran over to our teammates and brought back help.
(They are better neighbors than I.) I also called Tim and Josh had
called our watchman John back to help too. We were not going to let
this snake get away. While we waited we prayed with the authority
Jesus gave us that the snake would die.

The kitchen was full of people and in no time they had the snake pinned
behind the stove with the pipe. Someone else crushed it’s head
with a broom stick. Praise God it was over – and we won!

The snake was about 2 feet long and not venomous. That was an adventure
I did not need. Josh is still a bit jumpy and Lydia slept in our bed
last night, but otherwise we are all back to normal. Pray with us
that there will never again be a snake in our house or even in our
yard.

I hesitated writing this blog about the snake. I want people to come
visit and minister with us not be scared to come. So please remember
that this is the first time in five years, God protected and helped
us, and if I (a suburb girl at heart) can handle it you can too.

(I will write more later but pray for Luka and Grace. Luka has a fever
again today and it was up to 103.6 tonight. Grace has pain in her
chest on and off this week. The lungs sound ok but she takes short
breathes because it hurts. We have had on and off sickness in our
kids for months now. God has been faithfully healing each time.
Pray for complete healing and health. Thanks.)

One of the three parts of the snake: