Beavers...
So I'm watching a tv program on Animal Planet about beavers. I love beavers--what other animal has that much impact on their environment? Further, I just love to see just how many traits most people consider "human" in many (if not most) over animal societies, beavers not withstanding. But I digress; Anyway--get this...Beavers mate for life, but the boy beaver builds his own (second) lodge for his private use. No doubt he loves her, he just needs his own dang space to get away from any nagging that may occur.
But on a more serious (and off topic) note--I've got this situation in which I really don't know the correct coarse of action. When we moved here, we wanted an in-ground irrigation system--but didn't know anyone or anything in the area. So we got a few referrals and ended up picking this absolute scoundrel of a human Tony Carpenter. In short, Tony makes his living lying to people while providing shoddy work. For for thousands of dollars, he installed an irrigation system, albeit exceedingly poorly. I don't want to go into how poorly, but suffice it to say that we've doubled the expense just to try to keep the thing operational--without success. It's a money pit that has cost us thousands, and one that we have officially (as of today) abandoned. You read that right--abandoned. He's outright lied to us countless times, and never repaired any of the known flaws in his system. (Not that I would want him to anyway.) We've had reputable people try and repair it, but due to the exceedingly poor installation--it is really beyond repair.
I have also heard that scoundrel Tony has got himself in quite a bit of trouble by installing a sewer system in a new sub-development. (He sold himself as a licensed and bonded plumber, none of which is true.) Rather than tying the sewer into the county line he chose to dump the sewer in an open field behind the subdivision. From what I'm told, countless creditors are after him, as is the EPA and the bank that now runs the subdivision. Any punishment that I could possibly inflict upon him, he has already inflicted upon himself.
This does little to quell my frustration and anger for the 5+ thousand that we've spent on this now abandoned irrigation money pit. Even if I take him to court, I don't know if I could win. And even if I win, I would be in a long line of shaftees. Further, I'm wondering what the correct response is from a Christian world view. At some point, I'll need to forgive this scoundrel--and cease viewing him as a worthless consumer of air; and I struggle with that. His actions deliberately have robbed choices and opportunities from my daughter, and that is hard for me to accept. I crave for vengeance, because I have been wronged by a scoundrel. Is the Christian response just to bend over and take it, or is it correct to try and recoup losses such as this?
So I'm watching a tv program on Animal Planet about beavers. I love beavers--what other animal has that much impact on their environment? Further, I just love to see just how many traits most people consider "human" in many (if not most) over animal societies, beavers not withstanding. But I digress; Anyway--get this...Beavers mate for life, but the boy beaver builds his own (second) lodge for his private use. No doubt he loves her, he just needs his own dang space to get away from any nagging that may occur.
But on a more serious (and off topic) note--I've got this situation in which I really don't know the correct coarse of action. When we moved here, we wanted an in-ground irrigation system--but didn't know anyone or anything in the area. So we got a few referrals and ended up picking this absolute scoundrel of a human Tony Carpenter. In short, Tony makes his living lying to people while providing shoddy work. For for thousands of dollars, he installed an irrigation system, albeit exceedingly poorly. I don't want to go into how poorly, but suffice it to say that we've doubled the expense just to try to keep the thing operational--without success. It's a money pit that has cost us thousands, and one that we have officially (as of today) abandoned. You read that right--abandoned. He's outright lied to us countless times, and never repaired any of the known flaws in his system. (Not that I would want him to anyway.) We've had reputable people try and repair it, but due to the exceedingly poor installation--it is really beyond repair.
I have also heard that scoundrel Tony has got himself in quite a bit of trouble by installing a sewer system in a new sub-development. (He sold himself as a licensed and bonded plumber, none of which is true.) Rather than tying the sewer into the county line he chose to dump the sewer in an open field behind the subdivision. From what I'm told, countless creditors are after him, as is the EPA and the bank that now runs the subdivision. Any punishment that I could possibly inflict upon him, he has already inflicted upon himself.
This does little to quell my frustration and anger for the 5+ thousand that we've spent on this now abandoned irrigation money pit. Even if I take him to court, I don't know if I could win. And even if I win, I would be in a long line of shaftees. Further, I'm wondering what the correct response is from a Christian world view. At some point, I'll need to forgive this scoundrel--and cease viewing him as a worthless consumer of air; and I struggle with that. His actions deliberately have robbed choices and opportunities from my daughter, and that is hard for me to accept. I crave for vengeance, because I have been wronged by a scoundrel. Is the Christian response just to bend over and take it, or is it correct to try and recoup losses such as this?
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