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were housebroken and I was confident that they would not do any harm to the home.
When we moved in I found that my heart wasn’t at ease due to the fact that I had not
disclosed to the owner that we had dogs. The owners had some corn planted in the
backyard, and they asked us if we would allow them to maintain the garden until the corn
was ready to pick, which we were happy to oblige them in. The wife of the owner would
come over every day or two to weed the garden, or do something to it. I found myself
working to keep the dogs inside and out of sight whenever she would come by, and I noticed
my wife doing the same.
Before I go further in this story I want to tell you about our moving day. We moved
things in several loads, and the last thing we left to move was our dogs. We planned on
taking them along with the very last load, which mainly consisted of things from our
refrigerator. This was primarily to keep the dogs out from under foot while we were moving
things into the new home. It was late in the evening when we went left our former home
with our dogs. My wife had turned our keys into our former landlord, and it was now after
dark. As we drove the thirty miles to our new location we entered into a storm.
Not long into the trip the wind began to blow savagely, and dark clouds were
overhead. Things got steadily worse as we got closer to our new home. Lightning was
flashing continuously and the rain was coming down heavily. Off in the distance we saw an
electrical transformer blow up with blue flames shooting into the air. Along the road were
woods and pecan orchards and the wind was blowing so hard that pieces of trees, from
single leaves to large branches were breaking off and flying across the road. This debris was
raining down so thickly that it reminded me of being in a heavy snow storm. The debris
literally covered the road so that the lines on the pavement could not be discerned, and at
one point we drug a sizeable limb under our car for some distance. I did not get out of the
car to remove it because the storm outside was so ferocious.
I have never been in a worse thunderstorm in my life, and I would not have been too
surprised to see a tornado appear. When we arrived at our new home the power was out due
to the storm, and we turned on our weather radio to hear warnings of severe thunderstorms
with winds of 60-70 miles per hour. There were actually two separate storms that moved
through, one right behind the other. This was a foreboding beginning to our stay at this new
residence, and over the next two months I contemplated how in this way God had shown
us prophetically that our time in this place would be filled with spiritual storms.
The first few weeks in our new home went fairly well. Other than being nervous about
what our landlords might think when they discovered our dogs, things were going well. I
had paid a month’s rent when we moved in, and all our bills were paid up. I received a
refund check from a retirement fund I was required to pay into while I was an employee of
the state of Georgia, and it amounted to 23 hundred dollars, which was another
confirmation from the Father that He would take care of us. I mentioned previously of the
Father speaking to me through Psalm 23 on the 23rd day of the month, that He would be
our Shepherd and we would not want for any necessary thing. This sum of 23 hundred
dollars we received was a testimony to me that God would continue to meet our needs.
It had now been nearly four years since the Holy Spirit had spoken to me at my sister’s
house in Mississippi about being a cutter of grass. He had spoken to me through the
following verse from Isaiah:

Isaiah 40:6-7
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers,