I HATE SPIDERS!

    Yesterday, was a hot day so I decided to take my son to the water park.  I'd forgotten towels so we stopped at Target to pick one up.  We quickly made our purchase then headed back to the van.  I started to open the front door then thought it better to just put the sack directly into the back (rather than passing it between the seats in the front).  So, I closed the front door and opened the slider.  To my horror, there was a big, fuzzy black spider with white dots skittering around under my seat. I HATE SPIDERS!!! 

      How was I going to get this furtive thing that can scurry into dark, obscure spaces and be gone quicker than I could move to catch it (as if that thought wasn't bad enough) out of the van???   I was trying to figure out what to do until I saw it climb onto a book.   I gently pulled the book out (all the while praying the thing would not climb on me - ugh!) and dropped it quickly onto the ground causing the spider to fall off.  Later, I found out it was merely (merely? ha!) a jumping spider which is supposed to be harmless for the most part.  Harmless or not, it could have caused an accident had it crawled out from under my seat and onto my feet...or bitten me...or my children.  I can only speculate as to what could have happened, but one thing I do know, God was protecting us!   Love those little nudges that turn out to be God!