Who Are We Trying To Save?

I have been trying to get my life in order this past week...I just feel like I am losing touch with what is important to me. I am guilty of letting the daily grind over shadow the big picture...I have forgotten to look at life from an eternal view. So this past week I wrote down the changes I want to make so that my priorities can once again be my priorities. One of those changes is that I need to make a better effort to get my family in Church consistently. We need to be involved in a Christian community. I had attended a great church a couple of months ago, and yesterday I thought I would bring the girls there again. That is a big piece of what I want for my girls...a church home...a place that they can grow and nurture their faith...a place that they will feel comfortable opening up to when they feel like they cannot talk to me (<-- I hope that doesn't happen, but I know that it will one day). So, we pull into the church parking lot, and there is a small group of women holding up signs quoting biblical verses. I didn't really think much of it...I wondered if the ladies attended the church, but that was it. Inside I was shocked to hear what was going on...the church wants to build a youth center and extend their parking lot around the side of the building, but apparently that would infringe on a PRAIRIE DOG colony! I couldn't believe it! How much sense does that make? Save the prairie dogs at the cost of not being able to save our children? I am sorry, but when Ava and Molly are pre-teens...I want them to have a place to go where they can express themselves and have some Christian guidance! I know that wildlife is important...my husband works very hard as a natural resource specialist...but where were these people when their own homes were being built? Prairie dogs are NOT endangered, but their natural predators are pretty sparse. If we allow the colony numbers to get so high, that's when we have problems with the plague. Nobody wants that. The problem is that nobody wants MORE prairie dogs, so the church cannot relocate the pups. The next most humane thing to do, would be to "relocate" them to the black footed ferret program. The black footed ferret IS endangered...and they are picky eaters, they only eat prairie dogs. So, I am all for saving our future generations, and if I was asked to be an activist for a rodent, I would at least pick one that is in danger of extinction. Sorry to the prairie dogs, I do think that they are cute, but I think we are called to teach the Word to our children.
When we walked out of church yesterday, I got a better look at their signs. They were calling me a murderer. They were saying that I don't obey the ten commandments. My heart was broken for a minute until I remembered my priorities...My God and My Family. Not prairie dogs.