What's up guys? I'm Jared Lopes and you're listening to the Dad Tired

podcast where I'm helping everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and

everyday life.

So the other day we're at home, it's about 8. So the other day we're at home, it's about30 845 at night and all of a sudden I hear our screen door open in the front door and you kind of has a squeak to it so the front screen door opens and which is weird like we get

solicitors quite a bit but for 830 45 at night it's kind of a weird time for solicitors

to be stopping by and we don't have a peephole so I can't see

directly who's in front of our door but we do have like a bay window in our living room where you can

kind of peek out the window and see who's in front of the door.

So my son runs over and he moves the curtain aside

and he immediately jumps back and he's like,

it's a stranger, it's a stranger.

So as a dad, my blood pressure starts to rise a little bit. And like, you know as a dad my blood pressure starts to rise a little bit like you know who's

over at our house right now that we don't know so all of a sudden at the door

handle of our front door starts to like jiggle. The person at the door is

clearly trying to get in. And fortunately the door is locked and so I'm like

okay what the heck is going on? So they're jiggling the handle and then out of nowhere like it starts to get really

aggressive. They're now aggressively trying to get into our house. So dude, my blood pressure is like sky high. I can't see who's at the front door, but I know they're now aggressively trying to get into my house.

So I tell my wife, I said, call 911, and my kids are like just standing there staring

out as freaked out I literally have both hands on the door I don't even know what

that would do but I'm like both hands on the door you, just putting extra pressure on the door in case

this person who's on the other side aggressively trying to get in somehow figures out a way

to get through the locks and gets in.

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