Well, we serve a pretty amazing God! Kevin and I have been dreading going over to our “challenging neighbors” house all week, but we really felt like we needed to go over and properly introduce ourselves after the “dog fiasco” earlier this week. We figured, if we are going to be neighbors with these people we need to at least try to make an effort to be good neighbors even if we’ve been wronged.
So we sucked it up, said a prayer and set out on our journey to “start over”. The wife answered the door and as Kevin introduced oursleves and gave the reason for us coming over you could see her defenses go down and she eventually invited us in. Christ was obviously being seen through him. We apologized for our dog and explained the circumstances and we ended up having a great conversation. She thanked us for coming over and even apologized for her husband being so rough about it all. What a relief!
As we continued our walk around the neighborhood another family came out of their house… “are you our new neighbors?” they yelled. Their whole family came out and introduced themselves and gave us a few insights on the neighborhood and even said the only “mean” person was the “grumpy old man” living behind us. 
Sounds like he’s quite a character.
What a blessing our walk turned out to be! And what a great reminder of when we act in obedience, God shows himself to us in amazing ways.
