Rats...

Tuesday will go down in history as a really stunningly awful day.  I'm trying to do my 29 days of gifts and trying to get in a place in my mind where I can do this project, and then Tuesday happened.  Now Tuesdays are usually a pretty good day... it's my favorite workout day, I'm usually ok at work, it's (one of many many) Missionary days, and I had a gift to give out.  Hit a wall about mid-day with a family heartache, work dumped the masses on me, I was exhausted from the night before worries, and I was missing my workout because I had to go and take care of a service emergency on my Mission.  It was quickly turning into an ugly ugly day.  But as I left the 4 children I had cared for in a home where the mom had to go to the er, and we did homework, and made them dinner from absolutely nothing in the house to eat, and we folded up clothes that didn't have a dresser to put them in and I tucked them in on the floor because there was no bed to sleep in.... I headed home, with a truck load of heartache.  Stopping at a stop sign in the middle of Gang Territory, I was a little afraid of the darkness and the spirit of the area (which was frightening to say the least)  The streetlight only had a flicker of light left before it was going to go out... I went to drive on, because this area was creeeepy and right in front of me a giant rat started to cross the road.  I just sat there watching it - it looked at me as if to say.... "What the heck lady, I mean I looked both ways, and I think I have the right of way..."  the tail was as least 10 inches long and it was huge from head to tail.  I wasn't going to argue - and I didn't want rat guts on the car... so I just let it pass to the other side and disappear into the darkness.  (It knew where it was going - but I didn't!)  I still sat there with my heavy heart and then just started laughing - because there wasn't anything left inside of me but a good laugh... So when someone says to you, "Hey don't let the rats win" sometimes, it's ok to just let them cross the road.  We let the chicken didn't we?