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So on the final night of a difficult week for Grandma that had included lost power for 8 hours and the flu, Karaña got the harried distress call, “There’s a bird in the house! Can you come catch it?”

Of course you can imagine the scene when Karaña arrived. With four kids between 11 and 2 years of age with a bird loose in the house, there was lots of excitement. The bird had been cornered in one bedroom, so Karaña and Christine went to check it out. One look and they quickly shut the door again. It wasn’t a bird. It was a bat!

Well that was different altogether. Bats carry rabies and bite. So after establishing that animal control was closed on a Saturday evening and giving the 911 operator a laugh when she asked if the fire department could help (apparently they do cats but not bats), Karaña spoke to a pest control firm who told her that once it landed, the bat wouldn’t be able to take off again and could be easily caught in a Tupperware bowl.

Armed with this new expertise, the neighborhood volunteer bat patrol went back in to find and apprehend the culprit. But bats are good at hiding and like the dark. The creature was nowhere to be found. After searching in every nook and cranny, Karaña and Chris gave up, opened a window and shut the door, telling the family to keep it that way and let the owner try to find it when he got home.

Upon asking the family if there was an access door to the attic in that room (trying to determine how the bat had gained entry), 6 year old Caleb confided that, “There’s a hole in the closet and I’ve seen men go in there, but they don’t come out.”

So what’s that got to do with FamilyLife? Well, it is family life, isn’t it?

How about sharing some of your family stories? Just go to our web site at www.walkerfamilylife.com and hit the link for the “Blog.” Then, comment on this story online. We’d love to hear them.

One of the fun things about working here has been getting to know Dennis Rainey. Sometimes you fear that when you get to know someone who you admire personally, you won’t like them as much. That has definitely not been the case here. Dennis is a first-class guy.
Randy Alcorn’s blog had a reference recently that I thought showed some of Dennis’ other side. Randy said:

You bump into people all over the place at the convention. Dennis Rainey saw me talking with Ted Decker and came over and gave me a hug. When I introduced him to Ted, Dennis said we two were his family’s two favorite novelists, and they’d love to have a picture of us. Ted and I thought that was funny, considering the scope of FamilyLife Ministries is a lot more than anything we’ve ever done. I really appreciate Dennis and Barbara and that great ministry (see http://www.familylife.com/ ).