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THOSE PRYING NEIGHBORS

We have that wonderful kind of neighborhood where everyone knows they’re welcome to borrow stuff even if the owner isn’t home, and the item will be back in place at the earliest possible moment with a pan of brownies or whatever as a thank-you.

Until my neighbor let me know she’d borrowed it, I never missed it and didn’t even know we owned such a thing as a pry bar. She is demolishing her kitchen this summer, and had a bunch of teenage boys removing the floor tile. I was gone for most of the day, so when she couldn’t raise me by phone, she popped over to our barn on a hunch, and found the tool with no problem.

She emailed what she had done. I emailed her back a little quiz on what we use our pry bar for:

A. To take my hands off chocolate.
B. To take my hubby’s hands off the remote.
C. To take our older kids' hands off their cell phones.
D. To get Maddy out of bed in the morning.
E. All of the above.

On second thought, we’d all be happier if she’d just keep it, and we can hang on to our favorite hobbies with no interference.

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Prayer request: It has been an extremely difficult year and a half for Nick, 24. First, his fiancée died in a weather-related car accident. Six months later, on the day before his
sister’s wedding, doctors diagnosed a cancerous tumor on his upper arm. He has withstood months of chemo, had surgery with a rod replacing his bone, and then chemo again, all in the past year. Nick was doing so well . . . only to have a spot show up on his lung this past week. Lord, we are glad to hear he has a large family of believers praying for him. We pray in one accord that it will turn out to be benign. Revive Nick’s hope and purpose, and save him, for Your glory. (Psalm 138:7)