gun shots

The other night, as we were preparing for bed, I was sitting in the kitchen and a couple blocks away seven gun shots rang out. I looked at Wendy and said, "oh, that's not good". A few minutes later we were lying in bed and we heard shouting outside and all the neighborhood dogs, including ours, started going crazy. We got up and looked out the window to find 7 police cars in tactical positions with all the officers pointing their weapons at a small Honda Accord in the middle of the street in front of our house.

They had the driver toss his gun out and then had him get out of the car with his hands in full view above his head. They then had him walk backwards to the nearest police car where they cuffed him and put him inside. Then they had a second guy get out of the car and it looked as though they were going to shoot him right on the spot, but, it ended peacefully. Within 15 minutes the car was towed, the suspects were taken to jail and the police were all gone.

There was never a mention of any of it in the news. In fact 6 hours later I was getting up to cook breakfast to take to the homeless and we didn't even talk about it!

This is not the first time we've witnessed something like this since arriving to South Florida and though it seems a little unnerving, we don't seem to be to concerned about it. I guess it's just that "peace that passes all understanding" talked about in the Bible.

It's been proven time and time again that even in the most dire of situations, God is there to comfort us.