Hazards in the name of 'helps' - 2

I actually can go on and on, writing about different experiences we had with various helps.  One actually left unannounced, helping herself with whatever she found useful in the house, leaving the children in school taking away the bunch of keys with the house locked up. What can I say? Thank God she left the children.  What if she decided to cart them away?  God forbid.

What beats me is my sister’s experience.  She is not in formal employment, so has control over her time.  I always said to her that she could watch over any help quite easily since she is always there. I thought she was very unlikely to have issues managing these helps.

On this particular night, she got up to breast feed her baby and for some reason came out of her bedroom and opened the door of her help’s room to pick up an item.  She said her help looked a bit funny on the bed the way she laid, or so she thought.  So she went to wake her.  Only then did she realize that the help had just propped up some clothing to make it seem like she was lying there; she had gone for a night shift possibly somewhere on the streets of Lagos!  My sister went dumb in astonishment, she was really scared.  She quickly checked the external doors, the front door was nicely locked and the kitchen door not snapped at the back.

She woke her husband up and he boldly stepped out of the house to survey the compound.  The night guard was fast asleep and the gate left off the hook.   In the wee hours of the morning, she carefully tip-toed into the compound, face brightly made up with a funky wig on.  Where on earth could she have been coming from?  It’s really amazing to think she could still arrange these ‘extra -curricular’ activities for herself at night and play ‘at your beck and call’ at day time.  It is not just about working mothers after all, we all need to be extra vigilant.  May God help us.

Prayer point: O Lord, help me to choose the right person to support me in the care of my home and children.  Open my eyes to see things that might be going wrong and help me to take that needed decisive action(s) and avoid exposing my home and family to undue risk in Jesus name. Amen.