Confusing title? Let me try and explain. So, my family has been preparing for a camping trip in the past few days (yay!). We've been grocery shopping, cleaning, over-analyzing, and stressing. A few of us ended up in the kitchen tonight, and someone started arguing with somebody else. It erupted from there, and I think there are four people in their arguing now. I am on the back porch enjoying the lovely 7:00 breeze and luke-warm shade. :) I came out here so that I would not start arguing, and then it got me thinking. We have SO much to do still, and my family is in there bickering away their time! (Don't get me wrong, this is natural. Everybody argues every once in a while) Packing for a family of 9 is no easy task, especially when the four youngest can't pack for themselves. :) This is where the fishing line comes in. Satan is so good at working his havoc unnoticed. Had I not come outside to avoid the arguments, I wouldn't have realized what he was doing. He started that argument in there, and that is now putting us behind in our packing and preparation. Being behind in that is going to cause massive amounts of stress tomorrow, which will just lead to even angrier conversations. He ties us with the fishing line, first, and then we make it into chains by letting him provoke us into making the first mistake. We are the ones who continue to argue and let time slip away doing so, and that is what creates the chains that he holds onto us with later. So, it's been about half an hour now. They might be wrapped in twine in there by now. ;) I guess I just want to say WATCH OUT!!!!! Don't let him get ahold of you. Figure out how to spot his temptations from a mile away, and then RUN in the other direction. That way you can make it out the door to camp on time and prepared. :)
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