If possible, you might consider moving someplace where the neighbors aren’t inviting evil spirits to lurk around.
Thank you for your prayers but “moving”…NO! NO! NO!
(1) I grew up in this neighborhood.
(2) My family has owned this house for 45+ years.
(3) I live with my parents who are elderly and in frail health and who are raising my 13 year old neice because of my sister’s personal problems.
(4)Neither me nor my family can afford to move. My parents have a reverse mortgage on the house.
(4) I am a third generation Phoenician and the son of an Arizona cowboy. I’m stubborn. Why should I or my family move because an upstart " wicked witch" from the Pacific Northwest doesn’t like the fact that I called the police on her son for killing at least 2 of my cats, taunted me about one and said he " sacrificed" the other one for “the New Year.” And because I had the temerity to put holy pictures in my bedroom window. And when she saw that she said she was going to put a curse on us and make it so bad that we are going to want to move. Or who yelled over the fence at me last month “You are going to be left with nothing but your prayers!” or " You are going to be homeless when I’m through with you!" And who threw trash, a picture of 3 crosses, and a decapitated statue of St. Joseph in our yard. No, I’m not moving unless the Good Lord wants me to.
So…again, please pray–
(1) For their conversion
or
(2) that they become kinder, gentler, nicer people
or
(3) They move
or
(4) If it is the Lord’s will that we live next door to each other as a constant source of irritation to each other, that I accept this “hairshirt” gratefully as a mortification. (I would actually prefer to wear a hairshirt)
Paul
sorry if I vented but I thought it would be good to explain the situation and why I can’t or even should move.