So now we have a Guard Dog and a Motion Light

Due to Monday nights unpleasantries, this week has been a mad dash to secure this house even more...

For months, my 13 year old has prayed and cried over a dog in the backyard behind us.  The home is owned by an elderly couple...and the husband died of alzheimers right around Christmas.  Apparently the woman is sick too.  So, the dog is chained up and never fed...except for scraps that we throw her.  Every time it rains, it floods for her...literally sitting in water.  It has been heartbreaking to watch this sweet dog go to bones.  Every time we go out to the car, she looks at us, like please rescue me.  So, we pray.  Our other neighbor asked the daughter to give us the dog...then we got bolder and asked ourselves.  Always told No.  Tori's heart has been broken.  She aches over watching this dog die of starvation right before our eyes and there is nothing we can do.

Well, this week when we got broke into, we decided to find a dog.  We found  a dog that had been rescued and restored through the humane society.  Josh loved the dog.  But our neighbor's dog was always our first choice...because she still needed to be rescued.  So, once again, Lee asked the son of the dog owner.

A family meeting was held Tuesday night after meeting the dog from the humane society and our family decided on that dog, with some reservation because of worry of the dog accidentally hurting Erika.  Our neighbor's dog still our first choice.

Literally at the last minute on Wednesday...God answered Tori's prayer.  We were waiting for the lady from the humane society to bring over the dog.  In one hour, she would come.  And our neighbor called us to the fence, said do you want the dog?  Yes, of course.  He picked it up and put her over the fence.  

We have renamed the dog Stormie...she has suffered many storms.

We have had a vet visit.  He did all sorts of things, but she is overall healthy, just starving and sunburned.

We are lovingly restoring Stormie's life.  We are working on training her.  We are putting ointment on her skin, giving her vitamins, feeding her slowly.

Tori is so happy.  Stormie is so happy.  It sure feels good to be loved and wanted and fed.

The vet will come back.  We have to walk this road out.  

Stormie is already barking and protecting the house...and her food from Promise.

I will post pictures when she is well.  Of our journey with her.  But would rather wait until she is whole physically.

One other thing I wanted to share is that the other night, when we were broke into, Lee's brother, Wayne, had a very frightening dream about us.  He woke up and began to pray for us.  Then he read my blog the next day and told Lee.

Thank you for interceding for us.  We are in battle every day.  We know who wins the war, but the little battles along the way can go either way.  So, prayer works.  God protected us.  Tori was able to rescue a dog in need of rescue.

I was thinking about Tori's rabbit and dog...both rescued...one from snakes, one from starvation...

kind of a spiritual picture of what God is having us do for the people of Belize.  We are rescuing them, restoring what the enemy has stolen in their lives, and helping feed their spirits and make them strong.