This is nothing new for those who know me. I have taken a job as a wedding planner in the middle of nowhere Texas, more adjacent to Oklahoma then I would care to admit.
July 16th will be One Year at my not- so- new- now job. When I first began here at the Ranch it was the middle of summer and smack dab in a very painful drought. Diving face first into an agriculturally grounded town was a true eye-opener.
Then, in November when I took up residence at said ranch I was in a honeymoon stage. The weather was fairly cool, the dust wasn't bad, and the bug's I kept hearing about were nowhere to be seen...maybe one here or there.
The honeymoon is OVER! Ha! My ranch hand, Josh delighted in showing me the full grown tarantula that he partially smashed right on my porch. It's still there, no way I am moving it! GROSS! check out the horrible camera phone picture:
The tree frogs make a racket in the evenings, sometimes so loud that I believe a woman to be dying. Then the snakes, I have only seen 1 live one with my own eyes, but my ranch guests continue to alert me to their presence. When you take a short jaunt to the cafe you face a barrage of flying grasshoppers the size of sparrows. You can't walk anywhere without a constant rustle afoot. With my imagination the horror movie music ramps up just in time for me to walk into a spider web.
Why the sudden abundance of wildlife? Turns out the tame winter we experienced and the torrential rain that I so heartily prayed to God for has encouraged the little buggers to be fruitful and multiply unlike any season ever before.
Yes, in a way I prayed for these bugs, ironic eh? Plus I am in their wilderness, not the other way around.
This got me thinking, I am not the first Miriam to be led out to the wilderness.
You can read the story here: Numbers 12:1-15
Apparently the wilderness can take a massive toll on your attitude. Thank you original Miriam for this lesson. Perhaps I should just continue to squelch the tarantulas and run over the skunks, and focus on doing what God has called me to do in the wilderness.
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