Monday, March 29, 2021

neighbor dog defects on my door

 I live in a upper middle class region in Brazil, but this doesn't prevent me from having to deal with  disrespectful  neighbors. As I live in a big city, I really don't know a lot of my neighbors, but certainly one of them, who has a dog, made it defect at the entrance of my house. It is very common that people walk with their dogs and let their urine and feces on their neighbors sidewalk (brazilian people are very friendly and very disrespectful at the same time!), but it is a worse provocation to let the feces at the very entrance of a house. Two days later, it happened in front of my garage. It must be the same dog by the feces shape. Today, we found a trash bag on our backyard that was thrown above the wall. I began to think that someone hates me or my family. Is this some kind o racism against nikkeis...? Nowadays, this prejudice is not so common but who knows?

 Brazil is facing a lot of problems with covid-19. I and my family are blessed by staying at home with our finances in order. Certainly, a lot of people were severed affected by the lock-down. So, I have much more to thank the Lord than to complain. My considerations about the feces on my door:

  • The Lord knows everything. One single hair of my head is under his control.
  • I am loved by the Lord, but this doesn't mean that I am loved by the human race.
  • I must fear the Lord and not a bad neighbor.
  • The Lord is my Protector and He revenges me, so I don't need to make justice by my own hands.
  • Sometimes, the Lord makes me search for Him in the problems that happens to me.
  • This house is not my house. I am living here in this world for a brief time. I will be moving next to my King. 
  • The Lord wants me to pray for my enemies.
My old father is evolving in his dementia. He has some kind of schizophrenia because he listens to a "radio" that always says bad things. He is paranoid. He has to protect his money and his belongs. I don't know exactly why (e.g., he is afraid of being robbed or he wants to turn off the voice in his head), he is locking himself in his room with closed windows. Thus, the air is blocked. As, I suppose he is not cleaning the place, it is really a bad air that he constantly breaths. Poor dad! He is always protecting himself from my brother's wife and her son (his grand son). Let us suppose that my father had a Christian mind, then he were eager to pray for his enemies, to focus on the Lord's blessings and not on the evil surrounding himself. Certainly, a Christian mind would let him free.