I'm Speechless

Tonight I witnessed something that I have honestly never seen outside of the movies.

Earlier this evening, Garrett and I were hanging out and watching cartoons. I glanced out my front door and noticed that several cars were in my neighbor’s driveway. Out of part-nosiness/part-neighbor concern, I peeked out my window for a closer look. There were two police cars in their driveway and an ambulance at the curb. First, let me preface this by saying that these are people that none of you would know (I’m mostly saying this for the locals.) Let me also say that these neighbors have become friends of our’s over the past 5 years that we’ve lived here. We’ve babysat their kids periodically, we’ve all gone out to dinner together and had each other over at different times, we have access to each other’s houses in order to let deliveries in at different times, the wife and I used to workout together every day, and Keith and the husband help each other out with moving heavy objects or borrowing tools, etc. While we’re not super close friends, we do look out for each other and help each other out when needed. They have always been on my heart as a family that I would love to have come to our church and we have invited them at different times, but never want to be pushy and just "live the life" as best we can.

On with the story. Not too long after I had been watching out the window, the EMT’s came out and left without bringing anyone outside of the house. So that left the two police officers. I went back into the living room and periodically peeked out the window. About 15 minutes later, I saw that the husband was outside with the cops and they were talking in the driveway. Nothing seemed to be happening, the husband had his hands in his pockets and occasionally would rub his head or his face, but other than that they were all talking. I assumed that maybe something happened to one of their kids, but it wasn’t serious enough to require going to the hospital. Both cops stepped toward the husband and all of the sudden he reached up and pushed them both off of him, the cops slammed the husband on the trunk, cuffed him and put him in the cop car. The whole time I was covering my mouth saying "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh". I just could NOT believe what I was seeing. If it was a random person, I wouldn’t think too much about it, other than being concerned that they were in my neighborhood, but this is a man that we thought we knew! I’m so upset for their family. I hope nothing serious happened, but obviously it was something bad enough for him to be arrested. We honestly have no clue what in the world would have happened. All I ask is that you all would please pray for them. I know that they’re a good family and I really hope that they will be able to work everything out and get their lives together. I really feel for the kids, they are in first grade and fifth grade and they were at home when all of this happened. I’m at a loss as to what to do now. I don’t want to call and appear to be nosy, but I also want to let the wife know that we’re praying for them and are here if they need us. Oh and for those of you who have never been to my house and don’t know anything about my neighborhood, I promise you it’s a nice place to live. I’ve never seen the police at anybody’s house ever before and we actually have 3 cops who live out here. Just thought I would throw that out there in case some of you are worried that I live in the ’hood. :)