Dead Stinks

One of the only things about Indiana that I like in the area of travel is that there are still quite a few farm roads in which I can take as alternate routes to school in the morning. Some days I ride my motorcycle and other days just cruise in the car. I have yet to experience a full summer here and I have heard that it gets pretty hot. As you know Fishers Indiana is in the top 10 fastest growing cities in the country, which means, CONSTRUCTION everywhere. Homes going up like crazy. Track homes side by side by side. Woods and farmland being bought by the hundreds of acres and "developed".



Now as I said I have not experienced a summer here yet, but the other day I was driving and had my window down. I was experiencing the smells of summer. Cut grass, farm animals, flowers, and then it hit me like bat right in the sensory region. Dead Carcass.... You know that smell, it hits you and gets into your car and in your vents and on your skin.. I see up ahead in the road a dead animal. Now earlier that year I have noticed many raccoons right in this area, and everything is waking up from the winter and for whatever reason heads right for the road.



All that woods, nope heads for the road. So you know the scene, Bloated little animal on its back, little legs straight up, you know the whole nine, no literally nine yards of intestines strewn across the road, I could tell what the little guy had for dinner the night before, CORN? no I think Walnuts, is that some fruit. So I drive on and eventually the smell goes away. The next day I noticed something strange. As I approached the same spot, I saw the dead little raccoon who by now had bee flattened like a pancake and it was evident that he was dead, the funny part was there was another dead animal next to him. All that road to die on, and two animals in the same spot. As the smell permeated my car and vents and face I had my nose in my shirt like you did in 3rd grade when teasing someone that they smelled, I saw that it was a opossum. As I thought about what I saw I realized the opossum was more than likely drawn to the death. Dead Stinks but it attracts us. Things that kill us spiritually and physically attract us. Lust Anger Porn Gluttony Envy Hatred.

I heard a story once of a boy and His Father. They had some trouble with rats so the father and the boy set up the big rat trap in the barn. They waited all night. In the morning the boy told the father the trap had caught a rat. It had taken the bait and Whammy. The boy quickly started to reset the trap. The father spoke up, "Son you need to clean all the blood off of the trap, if the rat smells death it will not come for the bait, the trap has to be perfectly clean." As the boy cleaned the trap and reset it he said to his dad, "If only humans were that smart"...

Dead stinks, so why am I drawn to it. John tells us to take off those dirty clothes and put on Christ, I am big fan of hamper fashion. I go to the hamper and just wear dirty stuff. My wife says take it off it is dirty. I am so quick to put on that stinky dead stuff that only kills me in the end. I have many times been that opossum looking for pleasure in the Dead. For we are dead in Christ and have been raised with him. Dead stinks. I hope it does not kill me or trap me. I need to stay away from the road.......