My handsome Vader left Thursday, June 1, 2023 morning around 5:00 am, like normal and didn't return home that day, I thought it was strange, but he has done it before. When he didn't return the following day I started getting worried. I kept calling and calling him.
One time I looked out the back and saw a red cardinal and thought, oh my dad was visiting. Then another time I looked across the street to the church office and I saw a bunch of birds digging at something. I thought hum, I wonder if that is Vader over there.
It wasn't until a couple hours later, after some meetings that I started going for a walk around the yard and the church to see if maybe he was laying around over there hurt. I decided to walk down the street towards Alexander and I saw a black blob in the field and I thought please tell me that is not him.
To my horror, it was him. He had been attacked by an animal or two, I'm thinking coyote or foxes or something that snuck up on him and took him by surprise because he was in 4 pieces just ripped apart. I was in shock.
I was so upset, but, kingdom work still was at hand and there was nothing I could do at this point. I could not bring myself to pick up to bring him home to bury him properly. He already had flies all over him and intestines hanging out, etc. Horror site to say the least.
So, I cried a bit and pulled myself together to go and set up for Vacation Bible School (VBS). I shared with a couple people what happened and everyone in shock.
Got up again Saturday morning to work on more VBS and I was about to leave when Randall came in and said I couldn't leave, I needed to stay until 4:00 pm, joking of course. I said "I don't think so" I've had a bad weekend and showed him the picture of Vader and he was so upset. I left and met with Christine to go to lunch and some girl time.
Laura called and was distraught to say the least and just couldn't believe it. She reminded me that Satan is just hitting me hard right now now. With everything happening with tests this next week Satan is trying to distract me from Kingdom work. When one is in the middle of the Lords will Satan will always try to hit hard, I just don't get why he is so stupid to think this would distract me from kingdom work.
