I'd like to think that I am a better person than this, you know the kind that shakes it off and turns the other cheek. However, this new year started out in a way that I did not expect. And 4 days later I still feel a little mad.
Our friends the Ludwigs' were in town and despite the sub zero temps, we decided that we were going to go out and enjoy a little of this MN winter and go sliding. Of course we were not going to just go out to any old hill we drove to a park that both Randy and I grew up going to. They have a sizable sliding hill. We had a ton of fun in the little less than an hour that we were out. That was until we returned to where we had parked our vehicles and found that the driver's side window of the Ludwig's van was smashed to bits and both purses, belonging to Dulcy and I, were gone. Only a small tube of Zinc Oxide was dropped and left behind for Dulcy to reclaim.
We spent the next two days making the most of our time together and calling our banks and whereever else necesary to make sure that these theives got as little of our money as possible. We also spent the time looking for things only to realize that the said looked for item too, was in the stolen purses. After talking to police, we found out that the theive more than likely took our debit cards and dumped the rest of our stuff in a trash can somewhere.
All in all it just makes me mad. Why is it that there are some people out there who seem to think it is okay to take what does not belong to them. I mean this appears to be something that they have done over and over again. They did it and I'm sure they didn't think about what they were really taking. Things that they intended to throw away that we really needed. And as much as I hope that they pay whatever consiquences are coming to them, in all likely hood they will go one with their lives never thinking about us and continueing to take from others.
Dulcy said we should pray for them. I know she is right. However, I can't help feeling a little like Jonah in that I'd like to see them face justice before they recieve forgiveness. In this I have some soul searching to do. I know that God sent His son for all of us, not just those of us who live slightly moral lives and claim to know Him. But for all of us. And yet in my frustration I feel more entitled to His grace than someone who has taken from me.
In all of this I now find myself thankful for one thing. It has brought me to the place I need to be most...at His feet.

Happy New Year to you all. I pray you see Him in each an every part of 2010!

p.s.- Due to the fact that our camera was in my purse. It may be a bit before I post anything regularly.