What a Waste! (Mark 4:1-9)

My sister lives just outside Tucson, Az in a semi-rural neighborhood. The pest they fight most there is packrats. Packrats are desert animals, but they are quick to move into any areas of your house or yard where they find a hole – in the shed foundation, under the grill, anywhere. The way they chew and shred material for nests and pack in all sorts of debris is quite destructive. They wreck stuff, and the nests smell gross, and if you give them any little area, any hole, any opportunity, they are right in there.

The Faith in Complaint (Habakkuk 1:1-4)

My son is a young entrepreneur. This year at the beginning of school he decided to up his resale game. He invested in a batch of Ray-ban brand sunglasses at wholesale prices. He bought matching Ray-ban brand cases to go with them, so he’d have a nice package to sell.

…The order was supposed to take two weeks, and two weeks later the cases had arrived, but…

no sunglasses.