"PEE-YEW!" (Translation to Norwegian - UFFDA!")

It has been a most interesting day in my world. . .even more interesting in our renter's world.  You see, we own the little one bedroom house next to ours, and over the course of the past week there has been a distinct odor leading us to believe there was a skunk in the neighborhood.  Live traps were set in hopes of capturing it, but all we managed to catch was a cat.

Early this morning, our renter woke to scurrying sounds in the [dirt] basement of the house.  Seeing the city employee out checking the traps, she asked him to come check the basement.  Opening the door to the stairway revealed the biggest skunk he'd ever seen.

What to do?  It seemed all options ended with the skunk letting off a spray, so they decided to shoot and dispose of it.  Unfortunately, the smell had already worked it's way throughout the small house, and it will likely be days, or perhaps weeks, before it dissipates.

As we were relaying the story to my husband's pastor brother tonight, we pondered if there were some kind of spiritual lesson in it all.  The passage which came to mind was 2 Corinthians 2:14-16.

"But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?"

I'm just hoping my aroma as a Christian is a bit more pleasant than a skunk's!  Also, it came into question why it was God allowed the skunks to come on the ark prior to the flood??  All I know for sure is tonight there is one less left to contend with!