Terrifying Night: Tiny Intruder Causes Chaos in Quiet Home!

Deep into the evening, I had just opened to chapter seven when all of a sudden what was a docile TV room behind me lit up with shouts and raised voices. I looked up from the page to see a little black creature zip in from the kitchen, making a circuit of the home’s main floor. It flittered around the TV room causing voices to head toward shrieking level.

“Get the tennis racket in the cellar!” Auntie Marilyn cried. I jumped up out of my seat and raced downstairs. Grabbing the tennis racket I wondered what might become of this intruder. As I entered the kitchen from the basement the little winged varmint changed course in mid-flight around its racetrack. Suddenly, Dad was already corralling it into the hallway.

The little brown bat had come indoors clinging to some damp clothes that hung on the line after dark. Auntie Marilyn tossed the clothes on the bed and watched her favorite show. Within the hour, the bat had crawled free from the crumpled pile and began searching the premises.

Dad slowly compressed its flight path to a meager length of a short hallway when it made a quick dart into the back bedroom. “Now! Give me that racket!” Dad hollered. I put my gloves on, a hat, and grabbed a zipper bag for retrieval once Dad had downed it.

I successfully neutralized and concealed the intruder with the bag. Then I walked to the door with the tiny creature gently cradled in my gloves. Placing it on the bushes beyond the front porch, I watched it shake its head, gather wits about it, and fly off into the darkness.

Sometimes we get tangled in things foreign to us and we wind up in unfamiliar surroundings terrified by what we’re experiencing. We need someone to rescue us and bring us back into the right environment. I’m reminded of a precious Bible verse: “God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

Psalm 69:14  “Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.”

Isaiah 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

2nd Timothy 4:18 “The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.”

2nd Peter 3:9  “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.”

 

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Retired or Retread? – Make the most of your life! Jim Reeverts is a former U.S. National Park guide and the author of Jordan Pond, Mount Desert Island, Maine.