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Hey! I usually don't share the "cute" or, more often "dull" details of my road herping trips--but this was TOO WEIRD! I'm a youth pastor for a church, with an undergrad degree in Bio. and many years of experience keeping snakes.

Tonight, I took a couple of guys from the youth group with me, and we went snake hunting--a pretty popular thing with a lot of my kids. Anyway, it was the hottest day of the year so far here in N.C. (mid-90's), and we had a storm just about dark, with low pressure and a brief, drenching rain, then some breeze following. We went riding on a favorite road and ID'd two Northern Water Snakes and a nice little female Copperhead. On returning home, one of the guys hopped out and started to run around the car to help me with equipment--then froze. He said, "Hey! There's one right here under the tire!" I couldn't imagine--"one WHAT?" Turns out, we had missed by about an inch running over a nice juvie Black Rat Snake which had just killed and eaten a rodent (obvious from fresh blood and hair in the carport) about 2-1/2 feet from my kitchen door!

That HAS to be the WEIRDEST thing I've seen in about a zillion road cruises! Personally, I think God often has a sense of humor about such things--we found it hysterical, at any rate!

Take care & God bless! --Steve in NC

Yup... that is classic but to this day I check around the car before pulling out from any hike. Yes... the lord or the forces that be has that kind of sense of humor for sure.
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Ed
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knocking at your door ? One time after waking up in motel room in west Texas I opened the door to greet the morning and here is this Trans Pecos rat snake climbing the hinges on the outside door. I accused my daughter whom was down with me of taking a previous night collected rat snake out of a container to look at it while I was taking a shower and it escaped. So imagine the shock when i went to put this snake back in the container and WHOA, the snake is still there. I did a head count and found out that this snake was not one of our collected ones.

I love it when people feel the need to give their deities human character traits, like a sense of humor, to make them feel more "Godly" themselves. Haha. Now that's funny. I guess it's too hard to believe in coincidence so a little man in the sky slapping his knee and making raspberries at you is more fulfilling and heart warming. I personally don't get it but to each his own, I guess.

either on your knees now or face to face after your dead.

your whole life. I'm sorry you have to live like that. It really is sad. But you're anything but alone. You really spooked me though with your comment. ::shiver:: I gotta go. I'm sure I can find an open church somewhere. Hope I have enough $ to get in.

it is so great to see someone allow there faith to be a public thing, unashamed of Him, the one who called himself I AM.
and really makes you wonder why some get so angry, if we are fools in living our lives serving God, then why so angry???
why do they kick against the bricks? who is it they are so angry at anyway?
Let Everything that has breath Praise the Lord!!! Psalm 150
Chris