truth! hardest lesson for me personally to learn.
how did we know we had cartel neighbors?
we didn't.
we had someone stealing our lawn.
lumber.
building materials.
stone.
trees. rocks.
got surveillance system in place and discovered the cartel drug running and human trafficking among other crimes.
but it started with an old man and a machete digging up squares of our lawn and planting our lawn around his place next door.
started praying for him, finally (hardest lesson for me to learn, personally! someone that wanted to KILL us…) started praying for him and his victims and the people forced into their scheme by one threat or another … praying for him to find God, seek His face, hear His voice, and seek forgiveness…
the first overt sign was ALL THE STOLEN SQUARES OF GRASS after flourishing, DIED.
the harder we prayed for them, the more God did the heavy lifting.
the then out of county arrests started (22 to date last time we checked.)
and it took the hatred for them out of us.
we don't hate them any more.
we feel sorry for them AND their victims.
we want them stopped.
we want them jailed and then deported.
we want some of them put to death.
in the meantime, we PRAY for them and us.
like i said, hardest thing to do for me was learning to LOVE and PRAY for somebody that wants to KILL us.